Business Restructuring Through a Capital and Business Alliance with AFC-HD AMS Life Science

「At the Fujisawa Store, Shizuoka Eel on the eighth floor, and at the Yokosuka Store, Unagi no Yoshikawa on the second floor, both serve proudly presented eel made from carefully selected eel from Shizuoka.」

「In addition, Shizuoka Unagi, which opened by leveraging group synergies in part of the restaurant area on the eighth floor of Fujisawa store acquired on 1 November 2024, has also been well received.」

「In the business leveraging group synergies, Unagi Yoshikawa Saikaya Yokosuka store has opened at Yokosuka store and is attracting many customers every day. In addition, limited-time sales were held at Yokosuka and Fujisawa stores for Mother's Day and were well received by customers.」

「As a business leveraging group synergies, we opened the food-service outlet Tempura and Hand-Stretched Somen Asayama at Yokosuka store on 8 December last year and the food-service outlet Unagi Yoshikawa Saikaya Yokosuka store on 20 March. Both have made a strong start, attracting many customers every day.」

「As part of initiatives for the future, in December we opened a new food-service outlet, Tempura and Hand-Stretched Somen Asayama, at Yokosuka store, leveraging group synergies. It has made a strong start, attracting many customers every day.」

「Sales promotion initiatives leveraging group synergies, including placing mail-order advertising for health foods in the Kanagawa Shimbun」

「Sales promotion initiatives leveraging group synergies, including placing mail-order advertising for health foods in the Kanagawa Shimbun」

「The launch of a new health-food mail-order channel leveraging group synergies contributed to strengthening earnings power and was a major factor in the recovery of operating performance.」

「We implemented initiatives leveraging group synergies, including placing mail-order advertising for health foods in the Kanagawa Shimbun.」

「Against this backdrop, we have worked across the company to implement the four major reforms—sales reform, sales-to-business-customers reform, personnel system reform and back-office reform—to achieve the basic policies set out in the disclosure titled "さいか屋 Operating Guidelines for the Fiscal Years Ending February 2022 to February 2024," disclosed on 5 October 2021, namely formulating a store growth strategy, maximising customer satisfaction, low-cost operations and maximising the use of management resources [human resources and other resources], as well as to improve operations through synergies with our parent company, AFC-HDアムスライフサイエンス.」

「In the capital and business alliance agreement, our company and AFC-HDアムスライフサイエンス agreed to aim to implement generally the following measures and to jointly consider the specific methods going forward.」

「Through this capital and business alliance, we are confident that combining our 149-year-old goodwill and our geographical distinction as the only department store in the Shonan and Miura Peninsula areas with the ideas of the AFC-HDアムスライフサイエンス Group for a new type of department store designed for long customer stays, incorporating online customer service and multiple forms of content that people of all ages and genders can enjoy, will enable both companies and their groups to mutually leverage their management resources and provide their respective customers with products and services offering greater added value, expertise and entertainment, thereby enhancing both companies' corporate value.」