Hokkaido Gas Co., Ltd.. The Group's principal activity is the distribution of city gas to over 580 thousand clients in Sapporo, Hakodate, Otaru and Chitose on Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan's four main islands. The operations are carried out through the following divisions: City gas (The production, distribution and sale of city gas); LPG; Gas works (gas related works, construction and civil engineering); Sale of gas equipment (gas equipment sale and rental); Other ( petroleum products sale, real estate business, brokerage of life/non-life insurance, the operation of travel agency).City gas accounted for 63% of fiscal 2002 revenues; sale of gas equipment, 13%; LPG, 11%; gas related works, 4% and other, 9%.