Note: This document has been translated from a part of the Japanese original for reference purposes only. In the event of any
discrepancy between this translated document and the Japanese original, the original shall prevail.

Securities Code: 7630
Date of sending by postal mail: May 14, 2024
Start date of measures for electronic provision: May 7, 2024
To Our Shareholders:Mamoru Kuzuhara
President and Representative Director and ExecutiveOfficer
ICHIBANYA CO., LTD.
6-12-23 Mitsui, Ichinomiya-shi, Aichi

Notice of the 42nd Annual General Meeting of Shareholders
We would like to inform you that the 42nd Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of ICHIBANYA CO., LTD.
(the “Company”) will be held as follows. Please note that the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders will
begin at 10:30 a.m. (reception begins at 9:30 a.m.) (JST).
In convening this General Meeting of Shareholders, the Company takes measures for providing information that
constitutes the content of reference documents for the general meeting of shareholders, etc. (matters for whichmeasures for providing information in electronic format are to be taken) in electronic format, and posts theinformation on the Company’s website. Please access the following website to view the information.
The Company’s website: https://www.ichibanya.co.jp/comp/ (in Japanese)(From the above website, select “IR library” and go to “General meeting of shareholders.”)
Website for posted informational materials for the general meeting of shareholders:
https://d.sokai.jp/7630/teiji/ (in Japanese)
In addition to the Company’s website mentioned above, matters subject to measures for electronic provision are
also posted on the website of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE).
The TSE website (Listed Company Search):https://www2.jpx.co.jp/tseHpFront/JJK010010Action.do?Show=Show (in Japanese)(Access the TSE website by using the Internet address shown above, enter “Ichibanya” in “Issue name(company name)” or the Company’s securities code “7630” in “Code,” and click “Search.” Then, click “Basicinformation” and select “Documents for public inspection/PR information.” Under “Filed information availablefor public inspection,” click “Click here for access” under “[Notice of General Shareholders Meeting/Informational Materials for a General Shareholders Meeting].”)If you do not attend the meeting in person, you may exercise your voting rights via the Internet, etc. or in writing(by mail), so please review the Reference Documents for the General Meeting of Shareholders and exercise yourvoting rights by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 28, 2024 (JST).
[In case of exercising voting rights via the Internet, etc.]
Please access the website for exercising voting rights designated by the Company (https://www.web54.net) (inJapanese), use the “Voting Right Exercise Code” and “Password” indicated on the voting form that is sent
together with this notice, and follow the instructions on the screen and enter your approval or disapproval of theproposals by the deadline for exercising your voting rights as indicated above.
When exercising your voting rights via the Internet, etc., please refer to the “Guide to Exercising Voting Rights
via the Internet, etc.” (available in Japanese only) below.
[In case of exercising voting rights in writing (by mail)]
Please indicate your approval or disapproval of the proposals on the voting form and return the form to us sothat it arrives by the deadline for exercising your voting rights mentioned above.

-1-1. Date and Time: Wednesday, May 29, 2024 at 10:30 a.m. (reception begins at 9:30 a.m.) (JST)
2. Venue:“Towers Ballroom,” Nagoya Marriott Associa Hotel, 16th floor
1-1-4, Sakae, Meieki, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya-shi* Please note that the venue has changed from last time.
3. Purpose of the Meeting
Matters to be reported:
1. Report on the Business Report, the Consolidated Financial Statements and the results of audits of theConsolidated Financial Statements by the Financial Auditor and the Audit and Supervisory Committee forthe 42nd fiscal year (from March 1, 2023 to February 29, 2024)
2. Report on the Non-consolidated Financial Statements for the 42nd fiscal year (from March 1, 2023 toFebruary 29, 2024)
Matters to be resolved:
Proposal
Election of Four Directors (Excluding Directors Who Are Audit and Supervisory
Committee Members)* No attendance benefits (meal tickets) will be provided to shareholders attending the meeting. Thank you for yourunderstanding.

1. When attending the meeting in person, please hand in the voting form at the reception desk.
2. For this General Meeting of Shareholders, we have decided to deliver paper-based documents stating the matters subject tomeasures for electronic provision to all shareholders, regardless of whether or not they have requested the delivery of paper-based
documents. Among the matters subject to measures for electronic provision, in accordance with the provisions of laws andregulations and Article 18 of the Articles of Incorporation of the Company, the following matters are not provided in the paperbased documents delivered.
(1) System to ensure the appropriateness of operations(2) Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements(3) Notes to the Non-consolidated Financial Statements
Accordingly, the Business Report, Consolidated Financial Statements and Non-consolidated Financial Statements included in theaforementioned documents are part of the documents that were audited by the Financial Auditor and Audit and Supervisory
Committee Members for preparing their respective audit reports.
3. If revisions to the matters subject to measures for electronic provision arise, a notice of the revisions and the details of the matters
before and after the revisions will be posted on each of the websites mentioned above.

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Reference Documents for the General Meeting of Shareholders
Proposal

Election of Four Directors (Excluding Directors Who Are Audit and Supervisory CommitteeMembers)

At the conclusion of this meeting, the terms of all seven Directors (excluding Directors who are Audit andSupervisory Committee Members; the same shall apply hereinafter in this proposal) will expire.
Therefore, in accordance with the introduction of the Executive Officer System to strengthen the supervisory
function of the Board of Directors and to speed up the execution of business, the Company proposes to reduce thenumber of Directors and requests the election of four Directors in order to improve the efficiency of themanagement system.
Furthermore, there was no particular comment from the Audit and Supervisory Committee regarding this proposal.
The candidates for Director are as follows:
Candidate
No.

Name (Date of birth)

Career summary, position, responsibility in the Company(Significant concurrent positions outside the Company)
Jan. 1992
June 2006
June 2013
Aug. 2013
June 2015

1

Mamoru Kuzuhara(June 30, 1967)
Re-election

Mar. 2018
Mar. 2019
Mar. 2021
May 2021
Mar. 2022
May 2023

Mar. 2024

Joined the Company
General Manager of Overseas Department
General Manager of Overseas Division
Director and General Manager of Overseas
DivisionManaging Director and General Manager ofOverseas Division
Vice President and Representative Director
President and Representative Director
President and Representative Director, incharge of Internal Auditing Office
President and Representative Director
President and Representative Director, incharge of Creation Development Division
President and Representative Director, incharge of Creation Development Division andOverseas Division
President and Representative Director andExecutive Officer, in charge of Overseas
Division, President’s Office, and Internal
Auditing Office (current position)-3-

Number of theCompany’s shares
owned

107,870 shares

CandidateNo.

Name (Date of birth)

Career summary, position, responsibility in the Company(Significant concurrent positions outside the Company)
Mar. 1990
Dec. 2000
June 2002
June 2003

2Tatsuo Miyazaki(February 22, 1964)
Re-election

Joined the Company
General Manager of No. 3 Sales Department
General Manager of No. 2 Sales Department
Acting General Manager of Business Division
and General Manager of Marketing Department
Aug. 2004
Director, General Manager of Business
Division, and General Manager of Marketing
Department
June 2007
Director, General Manager of Business
Division, General Manager of Central Japan
Division, and General Manager of Marketing
Department
June 2008
Director, General Manager of Sales Divisionand in charge of Store Planning Department
June 2012
Director and General Manager of Project
Planning Division
June 2014
Director and General Manager of East JapanDivision
June 2016
Director and General Manager of OperationalImprovement Promotion Division
Mar. 2018
Managing Director and General Manager ofOperational Improvement Promotion Division
Mar. 2020
Managing Director, in charge of Corporate
Planning Office, Human Resources & General
Affairs Department, and Customer ServiceCenter
Mar. 2021
Executive Managing Director, in charge ofCorporate Planning Office, Human Resources
Department, General Affairs Department, andCustomer Service Center
Mar. 2022
Executive Managing Director and General
Manager of Administration Division
Mar. 2023
Executive Managing Director and General
Manager of Administration Division, and incharge of domestic subsidiaries
Mar. 2024
Director and Senior Managing Executive
Officer, in charge of Administration Division,Production Division, and domestic affiliates(current position)(Significant concurrent positions outside the Company)
Director of Daikoku Shoji CO., LTD.
Director of Takei CO., LTD.
Director of LFD Japan Inc.

Number of theCompany’s shares
owned-4-146,585 shares

Candidate
No.

Name (Date of birth)

Career summary, position, responsibility in the Company(Significant concurrent positions outside the Company)
Feb. 1993
June 2004
June 2008
June 2012
June 2016
Aug. 2016
Mar. 2018
Mar. 2020

3Shiro Adachi(September 8, 1961)

Mar. 2022

Re-election
Mar. 2023

Mar. 2024

Apr. 1989
Oct. 2013
Apr. 2015
Apr. 2018

Apr. 2021

Apr. 2023

4Atsushi Sakuma(November 3, 1964)
Re-election
May 2023
June 2023

Apr. 2024

Joined the Company
General Manager of No. 2 Sales Department
General Manager of East Japan Division
General Manager of Central Japan Division
General Manager of East Japan Division
Director and General Manager of East Japan
Division
Director and General Manager of Sales
DivisionManaging Director and General Manager ofSales Division
Managing Director, in charge of RC Business
Management Headquarters, FC Business
Management Headquarters and Marketing
DivisionManaging Director, in charge of RC Business
Management Headquarters, FC Business
Management Headquarters, Marketing Division
and Strategic Sales Business Department
Director and Managing Executive Officer, incharge of Creation Development Division, RC
Business Management Headquarters, and FCBusiness Management Headquarters (currentposition)
Joined House Foods Corporation
General Manager of Development Department
No. 1, Development Laboratory
General Manager of Food Business Department
No. 1
Director
General Manager of Development Laboratory,
in charge of Quality Assurance Department andNew Terrain Development Department
Managing Director
General Manager of Development Laboratory,
in charge of Quality Assurance Department
Executive Officer, House Foods Group Inc.
General Manager of Corporate Communication
Headquarters, in charge of New Business
Planning & Development Division, and ValueAdded Vegetables Business Development
Division
Director of the Company (current position)
Director of House Foods Group Inc.
General Manager of Corporate Communication
Headquarters, in charge of New Business
Planning & Development Division, and ValueAdded Vegetables Business Development
Division
Director of House Foods Group Inc.
General Manager of Corporate Communication
Headquarters, in charge of Digital Strategy
Headquarters and Domestic AffiliatedCompanies Planning Support Division (currentposition)-5-

Number of theCompany’s shares
owned66,950 shares–Notes:

1. A special interest between each candidate and the Company is as follows.
(1) Atsushi Sakuma serves as a person executing business in House Foods Group Inc., which is currently the parent
company of the Company.
(2) There is no special interest between any other candidates and the Company.
2. The Company has entered into a limited liability agreement with Mr. Sakuma, pursuant to the provisions of Article 32 ofthe Articles of Incorporation. Regarding an outline of the contents of the limited liability agreement, with respect to theliability in Article 423, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act, the maximum amount of liability for damages shall be theamount provided for in laws and regulations, if he acts in good faith and without gross negligence in performing hisduties. If the re-election of Mr. Sakuma is approved, the Company plans to renew the aforementioned agreement withhim.
3. The Company has entered into a directors and officers liability insurance contract provided for under Article 430-3,
paragraph (1) of the Companies Act with an insurance company, identifying all Directors as the insured, to cover any
legal damages and litigation expenses that may be borne by the insured, by means of the insurance contract. Eachcandidate, if they are elected and assume the post of Director, will be the insured under the said insurance contract.
Furthermore, the Company plans to renew the aforementioned contract with comparable contents at the time of next
renewal.
4. On March 1, 2024, the Company executed a 5-for-1 share split of its common shares. The number of shares of theCompany held by each candidate is the number of shares after the share split.

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[Skill matrix for Directors of the Company]
The expertise and experience of Directors are as follows:

Mamoru Kuzuhara
Tatsuo MiyazakiShiro Adachi
Atsushi Sakuma
Toshihiro Uchida
Mitsuru Naito
Koji Oda
Yoko Haruma

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The Company has introduced an Executive Officer System.
The expertise and experience of the Executive Officers not concurrently serving as Directors, who are scheduled tobe elected at the Board of Directors meeting to be held after the conclusion of this Annual General Meeting of
Shareholders, are as follows:
InterFinance nationCorporate
Businessandality/
managestrategy account- Global
ment
ing
experience

Kazushige Sugihara
Keiji Ishiguro
Nobuhide Morikawa

Senior Executive
Officer
Senior Executive
Officer
Executive Officer

ManuHuman
Sales/
facturRisk
resources
Marketing/manage/ Laboring
Qualitymentaffairs
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