AEON Stores (Hong Kong) Co., Limited provided group earnings guidance for the year ended December 31, 2021. For the period, the group will record a loss attributable to shareholders of approximately HKD 470 million to HKD 490 million as compared with the loss attributable to shareholders of HKD 36.8 million in the corresponding period in 2020. The group did not receive the same amount of government grants from the Hong Kong government and municipal governments in the mainland China in the reporting period as compared with last year, the impairment losses on right-of-use assets, property, plant and equipment and goodwill, the slow recovery of the Hong Kong economy in the reporting period had adversely affected Hong Kong business performance and the increase of COVID-19 cases reported in Guangdong province and Shenzhen also affected the normal operations of stores.