Use-Case Development and Proposal-Based Sales for Inaba Warehouses

「The Company also leveraged its nationwide sales network, built through storage-shed study sessions and other activities conducted for approximately 50 years, to develop customer proposal activities and work to raise product awareness and secure demand.」

「The Company worked to enhance its product lineup by adding colour variations, adding garage models with high wind-pressure resistance, and launching Como Space, a new product with residential features that can accommodate a variety of uses.」

「The new applications during the fiscal year were as follows: ・Garage golf: Inaba Warehouse and garages combined with simulation golf. ・Self-service dog spa: A double-wall storage shed, Naiso, was used.」

「Although the increase in demand during the COVID-19 pandemic, or stay-at-home demand, subsided and storage-shed sales struggled, sales of garages and warehouses grew against a backdrop of expanded applications and improved brand recognition, resulting in higher net sales.」

「Although sales of storage units declined as stay-at-home demand ran its course, sales of large garage and storage building products increased substantially, supported by expanded applications and greater brand recognition, resulting in higher sales than in the year-earlier period.」

「Although sales of storage sheds declined as stay-at-home demand subsided, sales of garages and warehouses increased against a backdrop of expanded applications and improved brand recognition, resulting in higher net sales than in the same period of the previous year.」

「Inaba Create Co., Ltd., a consolidated subsidiary, opened a showroom in Koshigaya, Saitama Prefecture, and exhibited NUUM CAMP, a multipurpose space that can be used as a satellite office.」

「The Company also strengthened proposals for a small-scale retail construction package using Inaba Warehouse and developed coin-laundry stores and direct-to-consumer agricultural produce stores and cafés. In addition, it worked on developing Inaba Box NEXT, a garage-based product positioned as a lower-priced version of INABA96 Premium Closet, an indoor self-storage facility using Inaba Warehouse.」

「Against this backdrop, the Group worked to create demand through product model changes, a broader product lineup, and new application proposals, as well as improve production and logistics efficiency.」

「The Company will continue its efforts to create products that turn customers' dreams into reality, enabling these large products to be used for all kinds of purposes beyond simply providing storage space.」

「The Group will continue to focus on developing new uses and proceed with developing new products to meet increasingly diverse customer needs.」

「The company worked to create a new steel storage shed market through application proposals and develop its production system through the full-scale operation of the Tomioka Plant.」

「The company worked to create a new steel storage shed market through application proposals and develop its production system through the full-scale operation of the Tomioka Plant.」

「On a sales basis, large Inaba Warehouse and garage products, for which the Group is promoting proposals for new uses, grew substantially, increasing 8.3% year on year」

「The Group focused on developing new uses for Inaba Warehouse and proposing them to customers so that the product could be used in a wide range of settings, rather than merely for storing goods, vehicles and other items.」