Strengthening existing businesses and entering new areas centered on 3 businesses

「We determined that advancing the selection and concentration of businesses in our portfolio and allocating our group's management resources more efficiently to business areas expected to grow would contribute to improving corporate value over the medium to long term. Accordingly, we decided to transfer all shares in this company and discontinue the asset management-related business, which consists of the division of that company.」

「To strengthen the earnings base of our existing businesses, we will increase revenue by leveraging the sales assets, including the expertise, technology and services held by each business, while undertaking fundamental reforms to each business's cost structure through the optimal allocation of human resources within the Group and the active promotion of in-house production. We will also promote diversity management to invigorate the company by securing and developing talented personnel and leveraging employees with flexible and diverse ideas and values, thereby working to build a stronger organisational structure.」

「At each company in the system development segment, our core business, we will work to strengthen our earnings base by expanding revenue through new customer acquisition and deeper engagement with existing customers, strengthening recruitment and employee development, and reducing costs through measures such as actively bringing contracted development projects in-house. In addition, we will seek to secure stable earnings power and enhance the corporate value of our Group by winning consulting and construction contracts related to energy storage facilities in the renewable energy business and expanding services such as real estate transactions in the asset management-related business.」

「The Group's reportable segments had traditionally comprised 3 segments: systems development, renewable energy and Other. From the current interim consolidated accounting period, the reportable segment classification has been changed to systems development, renewable energy, asset management-related business and Other, in order to appropriately reflect the business classifications and actual business activities and present the business activities more clearly.」

「In the existing systems development business area, the Group implemented measures to strengthen its business structure, including strengthening recruitment and training of personnel at Group companies and developing new customers, to further improve profitability. In the energy business area, a new business area for the Group, it is promoting new businesses and seeking to expand corporate value through business expansion, while advancing efforts to monetize the agrivoltaic solar power business and considering new businesses related to the renewable energy business area, with the aim of meeting demand for green power and contributing to resolving the social issues of decarbonization and carbon neutrality.」

「In the existing systems development business area, the Group implemented measures to strengthen its business structure, including strengthening recruitment and training of personnel at Group companies and developing new customers, to further improve profitability. In the energy business area, a new business area for the Group, it is promoting new businesses and seeking to expand corporate value through business expansion, while advancing efforts to monetize the agrivoltaic solar power business and considering new businesses related to the renewable energy business area, with the aim of meeting demand for green power and contributing to resolving the social issues of decarbonization and carbon neutrality.」

「The company intends to pursue earnings growth by making these 2 businesses its principal businesses.」

「In addition, to promote businesses that will constitute new business areas for the Group, expand corporate value through business expansion and contribute to resolving the social issues of decarbonization and carbon neutrality, the company acquired all shares of 株式会社ＢＳ ＥＮＥＲＧＹ, which operates an agrivoltaic solar power business, an initiative that installs solar panels on supports erected on farmland to share sunlight between agriculture and power generation.」

「To further improve the profitability of its existing businesses and build a robust earnings base less susceptible to major changes in the business environment, the Group implemented measures to strengthen its business structure during the cumulative first-quarter consolidated period, including strengthening recruitment and training of personnel at Group companies and developing new customers, while considering agile M&A and new business investments.」

「The Group will pursue business diversification and other initiatives and work to expand new businesses by sharing the customer and sales platforms of Group companies, providing mutual technology and service support, forming alliances with partner companies, and acquiring peripheral areas of each business through active M&A.」

「In the systems development business, the company continued to strengthen sales capabilities for existing and new customers and intensify recruitment of engineers to expand its business and improve performance. At 株式会社Ｇｌｏｔｕｓ, whose principal businesses are operating the FLASH eyelash salon, which provides eyelash-extension services, and selling cosmetics and health foods, the company also expanded recruitment and pursued active marketing activities, continuing efforts to increase sales.」

「The company strengthened its organizational structure to optimize personnel allocation within the Group and strengthen sales capabilities for existing and new customers, and worked to develop its businesses by maximizing synergies among Group companies.」

「Meanwhile, the company had considered agile M&A and new business investments to develop new sources of earnings and enhance the Group's medium- to long-term corporate value. To consider entering the beauty business anew, it established 株式会社Ｇｌｏｔｕｓ as a wholly owned subsidiary on 30 April 2021 and aims to commence operations from the second quarter of the fiscal year.」

「The Group consists of 4 companies, namely the company and 3 consolidated subsidiaries, and its principal business is systems development.」

「During the three-month consolidated accounting period ended 31 December, the company transferred all shares of 株式会社スカイリンク to a third party, as stated in the notice concerning the transfer of shares in a consolidated subsidiary announced on 22 December 2020.」

「The company will continue to strengthen the earnings base of its existing businesses and seek to build a new earnings base through an aggressive M&A strategy aimed at entering new business areas, while working to secure the Group's stable earnings capacity and enhance corporate value.」

「The company has shifted to a policy of enhancing the Group's medium- to long-term corporate value by concentrating management resources more narrowly on selected business areas and pursuing agile M&A in those areas or adjacent fields.」

「The company will continue to strengthen the earnings base of its existing businesses and seek to build a new earnings base through an aggressive M&A strategy aimed at entering new business areas, while working to enhance the Group's corporate value.」

「There were no material changes in the nature of the businesses conducted by the Group (the Company and its affiliated companies) during the cumulative third quarter of the current fiscal year.」

「During the first six months of the fiscal year, there were no material changes in the nature of the businesses operated by the Group, comprising the Company and its affiliates.」

「Against this backdrop, the Group has actively pursued business selection and concentration and worked to strengthen its earnings base by optimizing the allocation of management resources.」

「Centered on the Ladies Services business, the Group will pursue business diversification and other initiatives and work to expand new businesses by sharing the customer and sales platforms of Group companies, providing mutual technology and service support, forming alliances with partner companies, and acquiring peripheral areas of each business through active M&A.」

「The company agreed to this share transfer after determining that reducing its burden associated with the company's business and concentrating management resources on its core Ladies Services business, while enabling Legal Vision to operate independently with support from the transferee, トラストフィナンテック株式会社, would contribute to the medium- to long-term enhancement of both companies' corporate value.」

「Through 株式会社ラブリークィーン, which became a consolidated subsidiary at the end of the previous fiscal year, the company began planning, designing, manufacturing and selling women's wear, primarily black formalwear and colored formalwear, as the Apparel division of this segment.」

「The company determined that earnings from the apparel business operated by 株式会社ラブリークィーン are expected to improve and that synergies can be created through the effective use of the Group's customer base and system platforms, including its e-commerce site.」

「Against this backdrop, the Group has leveraged its competitive advantage as the industry's largest-scale beauty business to implement business strategies and actively invest in growth businesses with the aim of enhancing Group corporate value through further earnings growth, while working to maximize synergies by leveraging the customer, technology and service platforms of each business area.」

「Against this backdrop, the Group has actively invested in growth businesses with the aim of enhancing Group corporate value through further earnings growth, centered on its core beauty business, while working to maximize business synergies with Group companies.」

「Against this backdrop, the Group has developed its businesses, centered on the Beauty segment, with the aim of strengthening existing businesses and entering new business areas by maximizing synergies through the customer, technology and service platforms of each business area.」

「Against this backdrop, the Group has developed its businesses, centered on the Beauty segment, with the aim of strengthening existing businesses and entering new business areas by maximizing synergies through the customer, technology and service platforms of each business area.」

「The Group has developed its businesses around 3 core operations: beauty, media and consulting, and systems development, seeking to strengthen existing businesses and enter new business areas by maximizing synergies through the customer, technology and service platforms of each business area.」