Stable performance and achievement of numerical targets

「Operating profit, ordinary profit and interim net income attributable to owners of the parent are expected to fall below the previously announced forecasts.」

「Regarding progress under the current medium-term management plan, which began in the fiscal year ending February 2022, product unit prices increased following price revisions. However, despite a decline in sales volumes as consumers became more cost-conscious and increasingly challenging external conditions, including higher costs, various transformations, including “selection and concentration,” proved effective, and results for the fiscal year ended were broadly in line with the initial plan.」

「Under the next medium-term management plan, which will begin in the fiscal year ending February 2027, the Group will adopt the new slogans “Challenge, Toward Further Growth” and “Becoming a Partner That Creates Our Customers' Futures Together,” thoroughly implement its basic strategies and boldly pursue its growth strategies.」

「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.」

「Against this backdrop, toward achieving the new medium- to long-term management plan, whose final fiscal year is the fiscal year ending February 2026, we continued to focus on the basic strategy under the slogan “Thoroughly execute the fundamentals, then pursue growth,” as in the previous consolidated fiscal year.」

「Against this backdrop, toward achieving the new medium- to long-term management plan, whose final fiscal year is the fiscal year ending February 2026, we will continue to pursue the basic strategy under the slogan “Thoroughly execute the fundamentals, then pursue growth.”」

「Against this backdrop, the fiscal year ending February 2024 is the third year and midpoint of the new medium- to long-term management plan, whose slogan is “Thoroughly execute the fundamentals, then pursue growth.” In addition to low-cost operations based on “thorough execution of the fundamentals,” our growth strategy is to further expand our businesses under the CED concept—Communication, Education/Entertainment and Design—as a management strategy for a digitalised society. By clearly differentiating ourselves from competitors, we will support customers from every angle as a marketing, design and business company capable of communicating with the world.」

「Against this backdrop, the fiscal year ending February 2024 is the third year and midpoint of the new medium- to long-term management plan, whose slogan is “Thoroughly execute the fundamentals, then pursue growth.” In addition to low-cost operations based on “thorough execution of the fundamentals,” our growth strategy is to further expand our businesses under the CED concept—Communication, Education/Entertainment and Design—as a management strategy for a digitalised society. By clearly differentiating ourselves from competitors, we will support customers from every angle as a marketing, design and business company capable of communicating with the world.」

「Against this backdrop, the fiscal year ending February 2024 is the third year and midpoint of the new medium- to long-term management plan, whose slogan is “Thoroughly execute the fundamentals, then pursue growth.” In addition to low-cost operations based on “thorough execution of the fundamentals,” our growth strategy is to further expand our businesses under the CED concept—Communication, Education/Entertainment and Design—as a management strategy for a digitalised society. By clearly differentiating ourselves from competitors, we will support customers from every angle as a marketing, design and business company capable of communicating with the world.」

「Against this backdrop, the fiscal year ending February 2024 is the third year of the new medium-term management plan. Under the slogan “Thoroughly implement the basics, and then grow,” we will continue to invest actively in human resources as a basic strategy and work toward achieving our numerical targets through further profit improvement.」

「Against this backdrop, the fiscal year ending February 2023 is the second year of the new medium- to long-term management plan. Under the slogan “Thoroughly implement the basics, and then grow,” our basic strategy is to actively invest in human resources to improve our specialized knowledge of pets and planning capabilities and to provide appropriate proposals tailored to each customer’s business environment.」

「Against this backdrop, the fiscal year ending February 2023 is the second year of the new medium- to long-term management plan. Under the slogan “Thoroughly implement the basics, and then grow,” we are actively investing in human resources to improve our specialized knowledge of pets and planning capabilities and to provide appropriate proposals tailored to each customer’s business environment.」

「Against this backdrop, the fiscal year ending February 2023 is the second year of the new medium- to long-term management plan. Under the slogan “Thoroughly implement the basics, and then grow,” we are actively investing in human resources to improve our specialized knowledge of pets and planning capabilities and to provide appropriate proposals tailored to each customer’s business environment.」

「Against this backdrop, the fiscal year ending February 2023 is the second year of the new medium- to long-term management plan. Under the slogan “Thoroughly implement the basics, and then grow,” we will continue to invest actively in human resources and work toward achieving our numerical targets through steady profit improvement.」

「Against this backdrop, we formulated a new five-year medium- to long-term management plan covering the fiscal year ending February 2022 (fiscal 2021) through the fiscal year ending February 2026 (fiscal 2025), under the new vision, “I³☆55: Becoming an organization that exceeds customer expectations.” As lifestyles undergo major changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the importance of pets is being recognized anew, we will work toward achieving our numerical targets through steady profit improvement under the slogan, “Thoroughly implement the basics, and then grow,” with the aim of realizing our corporate philosophy of “coexistence between people and pets.”」

「We have positioned the final fiscal year of the new medium- to long-term management plan formulated for the Company’s 50th anniversary in 2020 as a major turning point toward the next half-century, and based on the current vision, “I²☆50: No. 1 in Customer Satisfaction – Speed, Growth and Expansion,” we will work toward achieving our numerical targets through steady profit improvement.」

「Against this backdrop, based on the new vision of the new medium- to long-term management plan formulated for the Company’s 50th anniversary in 2020, “I²☆50: No. 1 in Customer Satisfaction – Speed, Growth and Expansion,” we will work toward achieving our numerical targets through steady profit improvement.」

「Against this backdrop, based on the new vision of the new medium- to long-term management plan formulated for the Company’s 50th anniversary in 2020, “I²☆50: No. 1 in Customer Satisfaction – Speed, Growth and Expansion,” we will work toward stable business performance and the achievement of our numerical targets.」

「Our highest-priority tasks are to maintain stable performance and achieve our numerical targets. To that end, we established the Corporate Strategy Office on 1 March 2017 and adopted a three-deputy-general-manager structure within the Sales Headquarters, covering site management, wide-area customer management and logistics management, to further strengthen the organization within the Sales Headquarters.」