For the first quarter in the fiscal year ending December 2010, actual shipments in most segments exceeded our outlook at the beginning of the current fiscal year.
Especially, shipments of FPD glass substrate remained robust following the fourth quarter of the last fiscal year. Also, shipments of automotive glass showed stable recovery thanks to demand stimulus measures for automobiles taken by the governments in various countries.
As a result, it is expected that outlook of consolidated operating results for the first half and the fiscal year 2010 will exceed the ones released on February 10th, 2010.
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