Sharp Appliance Division Annual Sales Up 6%

For its just-ended fiscal year, Sharp Corp. (Osaka, Japan) reported net sales of 2,478,586 million yen, up 0.9% from 2,455,850 million yen in the previous year. In the year that ended March 31, 2013 (fiscal 2012), Sharp reported an operating loss of 146,266 million yen. In the previous fiscal year, ended March 31, 2012, the company had an operating loss of 545,347 million yen.