[Translation]
January 7, 2013

Name of the Company:

Nippon Meat Packers, Inc. (the "Company")

Representative:

Noboru Takezoe

President and Representative Director

(Code No. 2282, Listed on 1st Sections of the Tokyo Stock

Exchange and Osaka Securities Exchange)

Person to contact:

Shigeru Nakajima

General Manager of Public & Investor

Relations Department

To whom it may concern:

Notice of Progress of the Acquisition (Transitional) by the Company of its Own Shares (Acquisition by the Company of its own shares in accordance with its Articles of Incorporation pursuant to Article 459, paragraph 1 of the Companies Act of Japan)

Notice is hereby given that at the meeting of its Board of Directors held on October 31,
2012, the Company resolved to acquire its own shares under the provisions of its Articles of
Incorporation pursuant to Article 459, paragraph 1 of the Companies Act of Japan. The
transitional status of the acquisition is as described below:
Description

1.

Class of shares to be acquired

Shares of common stock of the Company

2.

Total number of shares acquired

3,823,000 shares (on contract basis)

3.

Aggregate acquisition prices of shares

¥ 4,586,100,000

4.

Acquisition period

From December 1, 2012 to December 31, 2012

5.

Method of acquisition

Purchase in the market through a trust bank

(For reference)
1. Content of the resolution on the matters concerning the acquisition by the Company of its own shares at the meeting of its Board of Directors held on October 31, 2012:

(1)

Class of shares to be acquired

Shares of common stock of the Company

(2)

Total number of shares to be acquired

(Not exceeding) 15,000,000 shares

(Ratio thereof to the total number of issued shares (excluding shares of treasury stock):

7.08%)

(3)

Aggregate acquisition prices of shares

(Not exceeding) ¥ 15,000,000,000

(4)

Acquisition period

From November 1, 2012 to January 31, 2013

(5)

Method of acquisition

Purchase in the market through a trust bank

2. Status of its own shares acquired in accordance with the aforementioned resolution at the meeting of its Board of Directors as of December 31, 2012:

(1)

Total number of shares acquired

10,716,000 shares

(2)

Aggregate acquisition prices of shares

¥ 12,475,161,000

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