Furukawa Electric’s Sales and Profit Decreases

Furukawa Electric announced a consolidated financial settlement for the April-December 2014, sales decreased by 8.8% from the previous year to 632.352 billion yen, and business profit dropped by 42.2% to 10.183 billion yen. The accounting dropped below the previous year result, because light metal business was excluded from the accounting caused by launch of UACJ, and gain and loss of metal business got worse.