Chemicals Division is promoting a comprehensive retail (distribution and wholesaling) strategy for daily necessities, cosmetics, food packaging materials, consumable materials, supplies and hygiene products through partnerships with suppliers and customers in Japan and overseas. Its main markets are in Asia, including Japan and China, where it develops and supplies everyday necessities, consumable materials and supplies for retailers, including FamilyMart, packaging materials and hygiene products for manufacturers of food and daily necessities, and hygiene products and consumable materials for e-commerce companies.

In promoting these businesses, group companies respond in their areas of responsibility. ITOCHU Plastics Co., Ltd. has positioned food packaging as one of its core businesses and is actively developing environmental packaging materials that meet the SDGs at FamilyMart and other locations. As a fabless manufacturer, ITOCHU Retail Link Co., Ltd. is expanding its procurement of products for the development of high-quality daily necessities and consumables at low prices, mainly from overseas. As a leading Japanese manufacturer of garbage bags and food storage bags, Sanipak Company Of Japan, Ltd. is leading the industry in digital transformation (DX), including the development of environmentally friendly products and the conversion of its own factories into smart factories in Indonesia. Since its establishment as a wholesale company in 1997, Beijing ITOCHU-Huatang Comprehensive Processing Co., Ltd. has gradually expanded its business and is currently developing an unparalleled comprehensive distribution "trading company" covering all aspects of daily necessities, cosmetics, product planning and development for domestic and overseas markets, food packaging materials, and e-commerce businesses at 11 locations in China.

Going forward, we will further develop these foundations based on a market-oriented concept and the SDGs perspective, and expand them to new markets following Japan and China with our comprehensive capabilities.