Hideo Arai

Oriental Yeast Co., Ltd. engages in the manufacture and sale of yeast, raw materials for bread manufacturing, confectionery, noodles, various feeds, biochemistry, and toxicity studies on medicines, food, and others. It is also engages in sales of laboratory animals. Its operations are carried out through the following segments: Food Business and Bioindustry Business. The Food Business segment develops and supplies food ingredients including yeast, flour paste, and mayonnaise. The Bioindustry Business segment produces diagnostic reagent raw materials or reagent in research use, including recombinant enzymes and human proteins. The company was founded on June 30, 1929 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Kohjin Bio Co., Ltd. engages in the manufacture and sale of animal blood, serums, tissue culture media and other products. It operates through the following business segments. Tissue Culture Business, Microbiology Business and Cell Processing Business. The Tissue Culture business segment engages in the manufactures, and sale of tissue culture media, including serum free media used for research purposes in regenerative medicine and immunotherapy. The Microbiology business segment develops, manufactures, and sells a wide variety of microorganism detection media used for pathogen testing in the clinical and food fields, and quality testing in various fields such as pharmaceuticals and cosmetics. The Cell Processing business segment conducts cell processing operations under contract from medical institutions. The company was founded by Takato Nakamura in April 1981 and is headquartered in Sakado, Japan.