Improving Profit Margins by Expanding Products, Business Partners and Content

「Gross margin improved as the lineup of primarily high-margin D2C products was expanded and sales increased in the core marketing business.」

「Gross margin improved as the lineup of primarily high-margin D2C products was expanded and sales increased in the core marketing business.」

「In terms of profitability, the profit margin in the EC Marketing Business has improved, as in the first quarter, through various profitability improvement initiatives, including expanding sales of high-margin D2C products and logistics measures.」

「In the “e-commerce marketing business,” profit margins are improving through various profit improvement measures, including expanding sales of high-margin D2C products and logistics initiatives.」

「In terms of profit, we implemented various profit improvement measures, including developing private-label products and logistics initiatives. However, costs increased as higher procurement prices resulting from the weaker yen and higher energy prices, together with rising logistics costs, outweighed these measures, and performance remained below the level of the same period of the previous year.」

「In terms of profit, we implemented various profit improvement measures, including developing private-label products and logistics initiatives. However, costs increased as higher procurement prices resulting from the weaker yen and higher energy prices, together with rising logistics costs, outweighed these measures, and performance remained below the level of the same period of the previous year.」

「In terms of profit, we continued to focus on developing our own private-label products and high-margin products, while also working to curb rising delivery costs, concentrate our use of partner warehouses and adjust selling prices in response to the sharp depreciation of the yen. As a result of these and other profit improvement initiatives, profit increased year on year.」

「We continued to focus on developing our own private-label products and high-margin products, while also working to curb rising delivery costs and concentrate our use of partner warehouses, among other profit improvement initiatives. As a result, profit increased year on year.」

「We continued to focus on developing our own private-label products and high-margin products, as we had previously, and worked actively on various profit improvement initiatives, including curbing delivery costs. As a result, profit increased year on year.」

「The main factors behind the increase in revenue were the success of various marketing initiatives in the e-commerce marketing business that emphasised the balance between sales and profits, strong sales of furniture, home appliances, medical consumables and daily necessities as we accurately captured consumer needs, including e-commerce demand, telework demand and stay-at-home demand prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the expansion of business partners in the product planning-related business through the development of high-value-added products.」

「In the domestic e-commerce marketing business, sales increased 18.6% year on year, the largest increase on record, owing to measures including opening a new store on “PayPay Mall,” introducing new products and taking various measures in response to higher delivery charges,」

「In response to continued increases in delivery charges in recent years, we diversified logistics centres and optimised product placement, and focused on passing part of the delivery charges on to selling prices after taking into account the balance between sales and profits. As a result, we maintained increases in both revenue and profit.」

「To address this issue without passing costs on to consumers, the Group plans to hold inventory of popular products based on its sales plans and improve its gross profit margin through bulk purchasing. In parallel, it plans to focus on developing high-quality, low-cost private-label products under its own management in order to achieve lower procurement costs.」

「To expand sales, we advanced further expansion of the products handled and focused on diversifying initiatives, including partnerships, to attract more customers, thereby maintaining a continued trend of revenue growth.」

「For products handled on each marketplace, we strengthened our sales organisation and sought to increase the number of products handled by increasing the number of contracts with new business partners.」

「We pursued customer acquisition and sales growth by reviewing the products handled at each store, reorganising genres and categories, and promoting our original “Simplus” brand, thereby maintaining a sustained trend of revenue growth.」

「We also increased the number of contracts with new business partners to expand the number of products handled, reviewed the products handled at each store and reorganised product genres and categories, thereby promoting efforts to attract more customers and expand sales.」

「In domestic e-commerce, we implemented ongoing sales growth initiatives, including increasing the products handled, opening new stores and launching sales of the new “Simplus” series of home appliances.」

「To address this issue without passing costs on to consumers, the Group plans to hold inventory of popular products based on its sales plans and improve its gross profit margin through bulk purchasing. In parallel, it plans to focus on developing high-quality, low-cost private-label products under its own management in order to achieve lower procurement costs.」

「For products handled on each marketplace, we sought to increase the number of products by increasing the number of contracts with new business partners, and opened 2 additional stores.」