Expanding the Passenger-Car and Commercial Navigation Market

「In the car-navigation business, business-use navigation systems had steadily generated orders, mainly from police agencies, but demand has run its course, and we are currently pursuing orders from infrastructure companies, the taxi industry and other private-sector companies.」

「In car navigation, orders for commercial navigation progressed in the previous year, mainly from the police, but demand has run its course and begun to settle. The company is now expanding its order-winning activities to infrastructure companies, the taxi industry and other private-sector companies. For commercial navigation, it began providing Commercial Car Navigation SDK Ver.10.5 to help address issues facing the logistics industry.」

「We are currently pursuing orders from infrastructure companies, the taxi industry and other private-sector companies. For business-use navigation systems, we also began offering “Business-use Car Navigation SDK Ver.10.5,” which contributes to solving issues in the logistics industry.」

「In car navigation, orders for commercial navigation progressed in the previous corresponding period, mainly from the police, but demand has run its course and begun to settle. The company is now expanding its sales efforts to infrastructure companies, the taxi industry and other private-sector companies. For commercial navigation, it began providing Commercial Car Navigation SDK Ver.10.0 on 1 July 2025 to help address issues facing the logistics industry.」

「In car navigation, the retail PND market is rapidly shrinking due to the impact of free smartphone navigation apps and similar services. The company is focusing on expanding orders for commercial navigation to offset this decline and establish a new business foundation, and launched the new Route Navigator Plus in February 2025, with substantial additional functionality, based on the Route Navigator in-vehicle commercial navigation app, which has received highly favorable reviews, mainly from customers conducting route巡回 and transportation operations.」

「In car navigation, the retail PND market is rapidly shrinking due to the impact of free smartphone navigation apps and similar services. The company is focusing on expanding orders for commercial navigation to offset this decline and establish a new business foundation. As the latest version of its core product, it began providing Commercial Car Navigation SDK Ver.9.0, which enables efficient route searches that take road restrictions based on load capacity into account, and is steadily winning orders for commercial navigation, mainly from the police, fire services and major infrastructure companies.」

「In commercial navigation, in addition to beginning to provide the latest Commercial Car Navigation SDK Ver.8.0, the company launched MAPPLE Route Navigator, a car navigation app specializing in operations following fixed routes, such as route delivery, collection, inspection and transportation, which enables experienced drivers to share their route knowledge, in an effort to help address the so-called 2024 logistics industry problem.」

「For commercial car navigation, in addition to beginning to provide the latest Commercial Car Navigation SDK Ver.8.0, the company launched MAPPLE Route Navigator, a car navigation app specializing in operations following fixed routes, such as route delivery, collection, inspection and transportation, enabling experienced drivers to share their route knowledge smoothly, in an effort to help address the so-called 2024 logistics industry problem.」

「For commercial car navigation, the company began providing the latest Commercial Car Navigation SDK Ver.8.0. In addition, to help address the so-called 2024 logistics industry problem, it launched MAPPLE Route Navigator, which specializes in operations following fixed routes, such as route delivery, collection, inspection and transportation, converts driving routes into courses that can be used for navigation, and improves the efficiency of sharing and handovers.」

「During the six-month period ended the second quarter, the company continued to focus on winning orders from government agencies, including the police and fire services, whose demand is relatively less affected by economic trends, and renewing contracts for subscription-based products for private-sector corporations. It also released the latest system products and services leveraging the group's core competencies, including the digital map software Super Mapple Digital 23, the web service Mapple Map Creation Tool, which allows users to extract maps according to their preferences, Commercial Car Navigation SDK Ver.7.0, Route Search Module Ver.3, and the Web API version based on the same module, MappleAPI Route Search API.」

「In addition, while releasing system products and services that leverage the group's core competencies, including the latest digital map software Super Mapple Digital 23 and the web service Mapple Map Creation Tool, which allows users to extract maps according to their preferences,」

「Against this backdrop, the company is pursuing orders for new solution products, including Route Search Module Ver.2 for commercial navigation compatible with heavy-vehicle restrictions, the business partner's Thermal Camera (body-temperature detection camera), the School Route Safety Support System for inspecting and managing hazardous locations on school routes on a map, and Travelers’Mind, which enables objective analysis of travelers’ interests and behavior at their destinations.」

「Meanwhile, orders for navigation-related products with steady demand, including the Commercial Navigation SDK (software development kit), are expanding smoothly.」

「The company is also developing a new solutions business, including the provision of Delivery Helper for commercial navigation, featuring the highly requested function of guiding users along courses created from driving traces.」

「We are also promoting the development of new solutions for the commercial-navigation business, including *Delivery Helper*, which features a highly requested function for providing guidance along routes created from vehicle travel tracks.」

「We are promoting the provision of new solutions for commercial-use navigation and expanding sales channels to offset declines in PND- (basic navigation system) and retail navigation-related revenue.」

「While expanding sales of new commercial-navigation solutions to offset declines in PNDs, or basic navigation systems, and retail navigation systems,」

「Electronic sales are beginning to bottom out, but sales related to our PNDs, or portable car-navigation systems, continued to decline due to the impact of free navigation apps, while map-distribution services also declined due to the impact of free map services.」

「Cash flow from operating activities increased by ¥134 million, mainly because the decrease in the amount of accrued bonuses increased by ¥24 million, in addition to the ¥241 million decrease resulting from a pretax quarterly net loss of ¥279 million. This was partly offset by a ¥103 million decrease in the reduction of trade payables, a ¥222 million decrease in the reduction of trade receivables, a ¥232 million decrease in the reduction of inventories, and payment of ¥232 million in contract termination penalties.」

「We procure traffic-regulation information and other data used mainly for route searches in car navigation systems, process and sell our map database using that information under a contract with a domestic third-party corporation. In light of the status of our car-navigation business, however, we decided to terminate the contract before its expiration upon payment of a termination fee.」

「In the electronic business, it is important for *Mapple Navi* to develop navigation systems that make further use of our proprietary guide information, secure adoption in in-vehicle navigation systems for passenger cars, and develop the new commercial navigation market.」