Expansion into businesses adjacent to crowdsourcing

「FY27以降の業績再成長に向けて事業の統合・撤退を決定。創出した経営資源を成長事業へ投入」

「As a specific strategy, in the profitability-focused human resources matching business, we are considering reorganizing the business, including exiting and selling unprofitable businesses, while allocating profits from highly profitable core services to fund growth investments. In addition, we aim to make “DX consulting” a core business.」

「In M&A, we are making disciplined investments in businesses with a high degree of affinity with our matching business and business-focused SaaS business. We will propose DX solutions to customers by leveraging the DX expertise of 株式会社インゲート, 株式会社CLOCK・IT and 株式会社ソニックムーブ, which became subsidiaries in 2024.」

「We are pursuing M&A involving companies expected to generate synergies with the Group's client and worker database, one of the largest in Japan.」

「In M&A, we are making disciplined investments in businesses with a high degree of affinity with our matching business and business-focused SaaS business. Management improvements at companies acquired through M&A are progressing smoothly through PMI and are contributing to growth across the Group.」

「In M&A, we are making disciplined investments in businesses with a high degree of affinity with our matching and SaaS businesses.」

「By welcoming 株式会社シューマツワーカー into the Group, we believe we can provide a broader range of human resources to clients in the side-job sector on which we are focusing, while also providing workers with more employment opportunities. This will contribute to realizing our vision of becoming “the company that delivers compensation to the most people in the world” and expanding our revenue opportunities.」

「Disciplined investment in M&A in businesses with a high degree of affinity with our businesses」

「On 14 October 2022, we acquired all shares of Peaceful Morning Co., Ltd. and made it a wholly owned subsidiary.」

「We will actively consider M&A involving companies that can generate synergies by leveraging the Group's client and worker database, one of the largest in Japan. In particular, we believe that conducting PMI by leveraging the corporate culture and management expertise developed through the Group's 3-year productivity improvement initiative through the fiscal year ending September 2022 will enable us to achieve sustained business growth and increased profits, leading to higher corporate value in the future.」

「Against this backdrop, the Group has followed a policy of concentrating investment on the matching business, its core business, and has sought to achieve both growth and increased profits by improving productivity.」

「Against this backdrop, the company established a policy of concentrating investment on the matching business, its core business, and has sought to improve profitability through the dual drivers of higher growth and greater productivity by transitioning to standalone management through the absorption merger of its consolidated subsidiaries.」

「Against this backdrop, the company has sought to improve profitability by increasing growth and productivity, concentrating investment on the matching business, its core business, and transitioning to standalone management through the absorption merger of its consolidated subsidiaries.」

「Against this backdrop, the Group has sought to improve profitability by increasing growth and productivity, concentrating investment on the matching business, its core business, and selling and exiting the contract business, a non-core business.」

「We exited these businesses at the end of the consolidated fiscal year after selling the 2 subsidiaries mentioned above in the contract business during the fourth quarter of the consolidated fiscal year.」

「Amid these major changes in the business environment, we decided to pursue a policy of selecting and concentrating on businesses for the fiscal year ending September 2020. As part of this process, we discussed the future development of our contract businesses, including 電縁 and IOSI, and considered future business synergies and the reallocation of management resources.」

「In the second quarter, we began test marketing of the television commercials set out in this fiscal year's investment policy in January and proceeded to verify their effectiveness. We also completed the expansion of the online sales team serving companies and the establishment of a dedicated team for developing large enterprise clients, and are focusing on making these teams operational for the second half of the fiscal year.」

「Against this backdrop, in the first quarter we steadily advanced changes to the organizational structure and a review of the business strategy in accordance with the investment policy for the current fiscal year formulated at the end of the fiscal year ending September 2019, in order to pursue selective concentration on the matching business, our core business.」

「As a result, for the fiscal year ending September 2020, we clarified a policy of concentrating investment on the matching business and making the contract business profitable while reducing its scale.」

「In addition, through active M&A, including making 株式会社電縁, one of Japan's leading companies in blockchain technology, a subsidiary as an adjacent area that enhances the platform's future value, and acquiring the learning marketplace サイタ business, we achieved non-linear growth.」

「During the 9-month period ended in the third quarter, fintech was newly added to the reportable segments because its business had become more material.」

「During the first six months of the current consolidated fiscal year, the company acquired the サイタ business, which operates a lessons service connecting coaches with students, and made 株式会社電縁, which provides contract software development and systems engineering services, and its subsidiary アイ・オーシステムインテグレーション株式会社, wholly owned subsidiaries, including them in the scope of consolidation.」

「At a meeting of the Board of Directors held on 15 November 2017, the company resolved to acquire 67% of the issued shares of 株式会社電縁 and make it a subsidiary, and acquired the shares on the same date. Accordingly, 株式会社電縁's subsidiary アイ・オーシステムインテグレーション株式会社 also became a subsidiary of the company, as a sub-subsidiary.」

「We will expand into areas including human resources services and crowdsourcing, as well as skill marketplaces and sharing services for spaces and goods.」

「Principal reason for the business combination: to diversify the services provided by the Group in pursuit of its mission」

「Principal reason for the business combination: to diversify the services provided by the Group in pursuit of its mission」

「We are in the process of shifting to a structure that is not excessively dependent on growth in the crowdsourcing market by expanding our business scope into areas adjacent to crowdsourcing, including the CloudTech business and BPO business.」