Growth Strategy and the Generation of Internal Profits

「During the consolidated fiscal year, based on the new medium-term management plan launched in the fiscal year ending February 2027, we are promoting the transition to a new stage of growth on the foundation of the business portfolio optimization carried out through “selection” and “focus” by the previous fiscal year.」

「前期までに断行した「選択」と「集中」による事業ポートフォリオの最適化を土台として、新たな成長ステージへの移行を推進しております。」

「Specifically, using “selectivity” and “focus” as the key themes, we will undertake a fundamental review of the business portfolio, including aggressive investment in growth businesses and the downsizing or withdrawal from unprofitable businesses.」

「Using “selection” and “focus” as its keywords, we will carry out a fundamental review of our business portfolio, including aggressive investment in growth businesses and the downsizing or withdrawal from unprofitable businesses.」

「This consolidated fiscal year is the final fiscal year of the current medium-term management plan and a period of transformation toward achieving the next medium-term management plan beginning in the fiscal year ending February 2027. Using “selection” and “concentration” as key words, we are reviewing everything from the Group’s business segments to daily operations with the aim of implementing thorough low-cost operations.」

「In the wholesale pet food and pet supplies business, the Company actively pursued stable profit generation through rigorous item-level management, while containing logistics costs through joint deliveries and simultaneous shipping to multiple stores using tablets, and reducing administrative workload with AI-OCR.」

「Specifically, we established new logistics centers, including those operated by subsidiaries, to build a foundation for sustainable earnings, and, as part of our human-capital management, relocated the head office and made further investments in employees to develop human resources.」

「Operating profit was ¥1.719 billion, up 100.4% from the previous fiscal year, as the Company continued activities aimed at containing logistics costs, including further strengthening item-level management to improve gross profit, reviewing delivery routes, and operating with appropriate inventory levels by reducing dead and slow-moving inventory.」

「Operating profit was ¥1,405 million, up 104.1% year on year, as the Company continued activities aimed at containing logistics costs, including improving gross profit through more thorough single-item management, reviewing delivery routes and operating with appropriate inventory by reducing dead and slow-moving inventory.」

「Operating profit was ¥1.044 billion, up 156.8% year on year, reflecting profit generation through rigorous item-level management, efforts to contain rising logistics costs, delivery-route reviews, operations with appropriate inventory levels through rigorous inventory controls, and further efficiency gains.」

「Operating profit was ¥453 million, up 417.1% year on year, owing to profit creation through thorough single-item management, efforts to contain rising logistics costs, revised delivery routes, appropriate inventory management through thorough inventory control and further efficiency improvements.」

「Operating profit was ¥850 million, up 83.9% year on year, owing to improved gross profit through thorough single-item management and greater operational efficiency aimed at improving productivity.」

「Operating profit was ¥688 million, up 147.8% year on year, reflecting improvements in gross profit through rigorous item-level management and more efficient operations aimed at improving productivity.」

「In the wholesale business for pet food and pet supplies, we further strengthened the headquarters structure with the Sales Headquarters serving as the head office, reorganised on 1 March 2021, and continued low-cost operations across all areas, not only logistics, while working to improve profitability.」

「In the wholesale business for pet food and pet supplies, we further strengthened the headquarters structure with the Sales Headquarters serving as the head office, reorganised on 1 March 2021, and continued low-cost operations across all areas, not only logistics, while working to improve profitability.」

「We will further advance our business development based on the concept of “CED (Communication, Education/Entertainment, Design)” to clearly differentiate ourselves from other companies. At the same time, we will continue low-cost operations, including maintaining appropriate inventory through thorough inventory management and controlling selling, general and administrative expenses by improving sales efficiency, and work to improve profits.」

「We will also continue to invest actively in human resources to improve our specialized knowledge of pets and planning capabilities and provide accurate proposals tailored to each customer’s business environment, while maintaining low-cost operations across all areas, not only logistics, and working to improve profits.」

「The company is prioritizing profit improvement through various measures, including rapidly implementing proposals tailored to each customer's business environment, such as responses to the adoption of a new lifestyle, as well as low-cost operations across all areas, not only logistics.」

「We are making profit improvement our top priority through various measures, including low-cost operations across all areas, not only logistics.」

「To address these environmental changes, we will thoroughly apply a lifestyle-oriented approach alongside low-cost operations. Based on our wholesale business, we will pursue every type of planning, including our specialty-store business and new businesses to be undertaken in the future, with the aim of becoming Japan’s leading pet-category planning company and providing value.」

「In the pet food and pet supplies wholesale business, we are further strengthening our ability to respond quickly to the market and business partners, making proposals tailored to the market characteristics of each channel and area, and working to improve profits. We are also continuing to improve inventory turnover through single-item inventory management and reduce logistics costs through low-cost operations.」

「In the pet food and pet supplies wholesale business, we are further strengthening our ability to respond quickly to the market and business partners, making proposals tailored to the market characteristics of each channel and area, and working to improve profits. We are also continuing to improve inventory turnover through single-item inventory management and reduce logistics costs through low-cost operations.」

「In the pet food and pet supplies wholesale business, we are further strengthening our ability to respond quickly to the market and business partners, making proposals tailored to the market characteristics of each channel and area, and working to improve profits. We are also continuing to improve inventory turnover through single-item inventory management and reduce logistics costs through low-cost operations.」

「As part of our logistics strategy, we will pursue greater efficiency by rebuilding our logistics structure. As part of our sales strategy, we will implement retail-display proposals that appeal to wants, or latent demand.」

「We will further advance “growth strategy and the creation of in-house profit.” Under our growth strategy, we will strengthen planning proposals and product development at 株式会社Ｉ＆Ｉ, whose concept is to provide lifestyles beyond “coexistence between people and pets,” and strengthen the customer referral business at 株式会社ペットペット. To create in-house profit, we will eliminate waste, unevenness and overburden through the thorough implementation of the 5S campaign to improve operational effectiveness and efficiency, while operating appropriate inventory levels and improving gross profit by individual product through stronger single-item management.」

「We will focus on “growth strategy and the creation of in-house profit.” As in the previous year, under our growth strategy we will strengthen our product development structure and reorganize logistics bases to support future sales expansion and low-cost operations. To create in-house profit, we will eliminate waste, unevenness and overburden through thorough implementation of the 5S campaign—sort, set in order, shine, standardize and sustain—to improve operational efficiency, while operating appropriate inventory levels and managing gross profit by individual product to strengthen single-item management.」