Vending Machines

Utilizing our technological capabilities and accumulated expertise as evidenced by our top industry share, we promote development of energy-conserving products so as to offer high-added-value vending machines that contribute to society.

As the domestic market continues to contract we are working to build an operational structure suitable to the market’s scale, and are reforming our business to enable stable earnings. We are also speeding up our development of overseas markets, where demand is expected to grow.

Mainstay Products

Food/beverage vending machines, Currency handling systems

Beverage vending machines

Automatic change dispensers

Mainstay Products Market Share

• Beverage vending machines : No.1 (domestic)
• Currency handling systems : No.2 (domestic)
  *Market share is as of 2010, according to our own research.

FY2011 Market Environment

The declining population has caused the Japanese beverage vending machine business to trend downward, and the impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake is expected to hasten that process. At the same time, the market is changing in that the need for more energy-efficient, environmentally responsive vending machines has increased in the aftermath of the earthquake, and we also foresee increased demand for disaster-response vending machines that can be used to supply beverages during an emergency.

While we predict that the tough market for currency handling systems will persist, there is also an increasing need to cut costs associated with cash registers to make them more efficient, as well as for security measures. Therefore we anticipate broader adoption of the use of automatic change dispensers at stores and in other locations.

FY2011 Policies and Strategies

Our efforts in the vending machine and food equipment sector will include developing more energy-efficient, environmentally friendly vending machines in response to the market environment, which has changed greatly since the Great East Japan Earthquake. We will also expand highvalue-added vending machines that contribute to society, such as machines with a storage battery that enables vending to continue even during a power outage.

In addition to concentrating our production of vending machines by going from two manufacturing bases, at Mie and Saitama, to one (Mie), we are also seeking to reduce costs by operating our new high-efficiency production line and completing the business restructuring that was begun previous fiscal year. These measures are intended to increase profitability. In our overseas business, we will also seek to open up new markets in China, where demand is forecast to increase.

In the currency handling systems sector we will invest in management resources for areas of growth, focusing on money machines, such as automatic change dispensers, and develop and offer products that contribute to greater efficiency in cash control at stores.