The SPARCS Model: Connecting Consumers, Point of Sale and Production
First written in FY2016. 10 of 19 entries say "Restated". Latest entry: 2026-10-14.
1 other company's latest entry also says "Advanced".
- FY2026RestatedAnnual report
「The Group continues to evolve its “SPARCS” model every day and, leveraging the platform developed to date, continues to update its business infrastructure through IT to connect all operations from production through sales, as well as physical and online operations, simultaneously through information.」
The Group has reaffirmed its policy of using the SPARCS model as its foundation to connect production through sales and physical and online operations through information, while continuously updating its business infrastructure through IT. - FY2026-H1AdvancedAnnual report
「As specific examples, the consolidation of エムシーファッション㈱, which became a subsidiary on 28 February 2025, and ㈱ワールドソーイング, which became a subsidiary on 1 March 2025, has significantly expanded the resources of the production platform. The Group is pursuing further business expansion while seeking synergies across the Group.」
The consolidation of エムシーファッション and ワールドソーイング expanded the resources of the production platform, allowing the Group to move into a phase of pursuing synergies and business expansion across the Group. - FY2025AdvancedAnnual report
「The Group is currently seeking to establish and evolve the World Fashion Ecosystem by expanding the SPARCS concept into the lifestyle and circular economy fields and further strengthening the functions of its platform as part of its medium- to long-term basic policy.」
The Group indicated an integrated policy of expanding the SPARCS concept into the lifestyle and circular economy fields, strengthening platform functions, and establishing and evolving the ecosystem. - FY2024-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「To elevate the World Fashion Ecosystem, which we have pursued to date, to an even higher level and create new growth opportunities and value that society can embrace, we began formulating World Group's own strategic guidelines for a sustainable society. In June 2022, together with expressing our support for the TCFD recommendations, we announced the Group's own World Sustainability Plan aimed at achieving a decarbonized society and have been promoting initiatives to achieve its targets.」
The Group continues to develop the World Fashion Ecosystem into a sustainability strategy and promote initiatives based on its support for the TCFD recommendations and its Sustainability Plan. - FY2023-Q3AdvancedAnnual report
「In the fashion industry, where transparency has not progressed because of its fragmented structure, we will promote the visualization of its environmental impact and actively work to resolve structural issues across the industry through the World Fashion Ecosystem, while seeking to reconcile diversity and sustainability in the fashion industry.」
The Group detailed its efforts under the World Fashion Ecosystem to make the fashion industry's environmental impact visible and resolve issues across the industry by reconciling diversity and sustainability. - FY2023-Q1RaisedAnnual report
「To elevate the World Fashion Ecosystem, which we have pursued to date, to an even higher level and create new growth opportunities and value that society can embrace, we began formulating World Group's own strategic guidelines for a sustainable society.」
The Group indicated a policy of advancing the existing World Fashion Ecosystem to a higher level as a strategic guideline for a sustainable society. - FY2021-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「In addition, as a basic medium-term policy, the Group is promoting the development of a business model aligned with a sustainable society, aiming to realize the World Fashion Ecosystem, which pursues a sustainable industrial world that delivers the value of a wider variety of fashion to customers without loss or waste through platforms and services using digital technology.」
The Group continues to pursue a basic policy combining digital technology, platforms, value delivery to customers, the reduction of loss and waste, and sustainability. - FY2021-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「In addition, as a basic medium-term policy, the Group is promoting the development of a business model aligned with a sustainable society, aiming to realize the World Fashion Ecosystem, which pursues a sustainable industrial world that delivers the value of a wider variety of fashion to customers without loss or waste through platforms and services using digital technology.」
The Group continues to pursue a basic policy combining digital technology, platforms, the reduction of loss and waste, and a sustainable industrial world. - FY2020-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「As a basic medium-term policy, the Group has committed to working at full speed to build a new World Fashion Ecosystem that pursues a sustainable industrial world by delivering a wider variety of brands, the enjoyment of fashion, and valuable products to customers without loss or waste through platforms and services using digital technology.」
The Group continues to pursue a policy combining a customer-centric approach, digital technology, platforms, and the reduction of loss and waste under the name World Fashion Ecosystem. - FY2020-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「As a basic medium-term policy, the Group has committed to pursuing a new fashion ecosystem that delivers diverse brands, the enjoyment of fashion, and valuable products to customers without loss or waste through platforms and services using digital technology, while working at full speed to build an industrial world capable of doing so.」
The Group reiterated its policy of building a fashion ecosystem that combines a customer-centric approach, the reduction of loss and waste, and the use of digital technology. - FY2020-Q1ReframedAnnual report
「As a basic medium-term policy, the Group has committed to pursuing a new fashion ecosystem that delivers diverse brands, the enjoyment of fashion, and valuable products to customers without loss or waste through platforms and services using digital technology, while working at full speed to build an industrial world capable of doing so.」
The Group has reframed the SPARCS principles of reducing loss and waste and starting with the customer as the construction of a new fashion ecosystem using digital technology. - FY2018RestatedAnnual report
「We announced the SPARCS concept, which starts with consumers and connects retail through production in an integrated process, turning losses and waste into value. In the fashion industry, we will connect business models that have previously been fragmented, minimize inventory losses and opportunity losses, and strengthen our competitive advantage by platformizing reproducible systems for each of the Group's core production, development, merchandising, and store operations,」
The Group continues to promote the SPARCS model, including minimizing inventory losses and opportunity losses and platformizing each business function. - FY2017RestatedAnnual report
「We announced the SPARCS concept, which links the process from stores to production through the consumer and turns losses and waste into value.」
The Group continues to position the SPARCS concept and SPARCS model as its medium- to long-term strategy. - FY2016First statedAnnual report
「We announced the SPARCS concept, which links the process from stores to production through the consumer and turns losses and waste into value.」
Describes the concept announced in 1992 as the SPARCS model, including the minimization of inventory and opportunity losses and the creation of an operational platform.