Expanding the overall care business through active development of home-based, facility-based and adjacent services

「The Group will also be selective in opening licensed childcare centers, facilities providing day services for children with disabilities, and welfare-equipment service offices, and will work to further strengthen the earnings base of both new and existing offices」

「During the consolidated fiscal year, the Group opened 5 locations in Osaka Prefecture, 5 in Tokyo, 4 in Hyogo Prefecture, 2 in Kyoto Prefecture, 2 in Fukuoka Prefecture, 1 in Kanagawa Prefecture, 1 in Saitama Prefecture, 1 in Aichi Prefecture, 1 in Miyagi Prefecture and 1 in Shiga Prefecture, for a total of 23 locations.」

「During the cumulative second quarter of the consolidated fiscal year, the Group opened 1 location in Kyoto Prefecture, 2 in Hyogo Prefecture, 1 in Shiga Prefecture, 5 in Osaka Prefecture, 5 in Tokyo, 2 in Fukuoka Prefecture, 1 in Saitama Prefecture, 1 in Kanagawa Prefecture and 1 in Aichi Prefecture, for a total of 19 locations.」

「During the cumulative first quarter of the consolidated fiscal year, the Group opened 1 location in Kyoto Prefecture. During the cumulative first quarter of the consolidated fiscal year, it opened 3 locations in Tokyo, 1 in Hyogo Prefecture and 1 in Kyoto Prefecture, for a total of 5 locations. It also opened 2 dining locations.」

「During the cumulative second quarter of the consolidated fiscal year, the Group opened 1 location in Miyagi Prefecture, 1 in Saitama Prefecture, 2 in Tokyo, 1 in Shiga Prefecture, 3 in Osaka Prefecture and 1 in Hyogo Prefecture, for a total of 10 locations. During the cumulative second quarter of the consolidated fiscal year, the Group opened 3 locations in Tokyo, 2 in Kyoto Prefecture, 2 in Osaka Prefecture and 1 in Hyogo Prefecture, for a total of 8 locations. During the cumulative second quarter of the consolidated fiscal year, it opened 1 location in education services, 1 in home-visit nursing services and 2 childcare facilities.」

「During the cumulative first quarter of the consolidated fiscal year, the business opened 1 location in Miyagi Prefecture.」

「In home-based visit-care services, the Group will continue aggressively developing new offices, including through M&A. In facility-based care services such as paid nursing homes and group homes, improving occupancy and profitability is an urgent issue, but over the medium to long term the Group will continue opening facilities aggressively, while also accepting people requiring lighter care and enhancing related care services to expand its overall care-services market share.」

「During the cumulative third quarter of the consolidated fiscal year, the Group opened 2 locations in Osaka Prefecture, 4 in Tokyo, 1 in Hyogo Prefecture, 1 in Kanagawa Prefecture, 1 in Kyoto Prefecture, 1 in Fukuoka Prefecture, 1 in Miyagi Prefecture, 1 in Nara Prefecture and 1 in Shiga Prefecture, for a total of 13 locations. During the cumulative third quarter of the consolidated fiscal year, the Group opened 1 location in Tokyo, 1 in Kyoto Prefecture and 2 in Saitama Prefecture, for a total of 4 locations. In its other businesses, the Group launched a new light-work contracting business and opened 1 location to secure employment and expand opportunities for people with disabilities. It also opened 1 location providing day services for people with disabilities, 4 dining locations and 2 childcare facilities, for a total of 8 locations, thereby pursuing aggressive business development and focusing on revenue growth.」

「During the cumulative second quarter of the consolidated fiscal year, the Group opened 2 locations in Osaka Prefecture, 4 in Tokyo, 1 in Hyogo Prefecture, 1 in Kanagawa Prefecture, 1 in Kyoto Prefecture, 1 in Fukuoka Prefecture, 1 in Miyagi Prefecture and 1 in Nara Prefecture, for a total of 12 locations.」

「During the cumulative first quarter of the consolidated fiscal year, the business opened 1 location in Tokyo.」

「The Group will continue working to expand its overall care-services market share by developing home-visit care services, aggressively expanding facility-based care services such as paid nursing homes and group homes, accepting people requiring lighter care, and enhancing related care services.」

「During the cumulative third quarter of the consolidated fiscal year, the Group opened 1 location in Osaka Prefecture, 3 in Tokyo, 2 in Aichi Prefecture, 1 in Hyogo Prefecture, 1 in Kyoto Prefecture, 1 in Chiba Prefecture and 1 in Fukuoka Prefecture, for a total of 10 locations.」

「During the cumulative third quarter of the consolidated fiscal year, the Group opened 1 location in Miyagi Prefecture, 3 in Tokyo, 2 in Kyoto Prefecture, 3 in Osaka Prefecture and 2 in Hyogo Prefecture, for a total of 11 locations.」

「During the cumulative second quarter of the consolidated fiscal year, the Group opened 1 location in Miyagi Prefecture, 3 in Tokyo, 1 in Kyoto Prefecture, 3 in Osaka Prefecture and 2 in Hyogo Prefecture, for a total of 10 locations.」

「To secure the capacity to provide services in response to growing demand for home-visit care, the Group plans to increase the number of sales offices, actively recruit care-service providers such as certified care workers, home helpers, care managers and nurses, and strengthen its education and training framework to further improve service quality.」

「The Group has established a continuing ability to develop talent who can lead new facilities, but is planning openings cautiously in light of changes in the operating environment. During the first quarter of the current fiscal year, it opened 1 location in Fukuoka Prefecture.」

「The Group will actively work to expand its overall care-services market share by developing home-visit care services, aggressively expanding facility-based care services such as paid nursing homes and group homes, accepting people requiring lighter care, and enhancing related care services.」

「Meanwhile, during the fiscal year, the Group opened many new facilities in the first half of the period as originally planned」

「During the fiscal year, the Group planned to open many new facilities in the first half of the period」

「To meet customers’ diverse needs in the long-term care field, we will actively expand home-visit care, paid nursing homes, group homes and other facility-based care businesses, accept users requiring lighter care and enhance adjacent long-term care services, thereby working actively to expand our share of the overall long-term care business.」