■Future outlook

1. Earnings forecast for the fiscal year ending 2025/2

As for the consolidated financial results for the fiscal year ending 2025/2 of Jason ＜3080＞, sales are expected to increase 4.4% from the previous fiscal year to 30,000 million yen, and operating profit is expected to increase 13.0% to 990 million yen. Sales contributions are expected from the 3 new stores (Kamisu Hasaki store, Kumagaya Ishihara store, and Tsukuba-Midori store) that opened in the 2024/2 fiscal year, promotion of low-cost management where the company is strong, profit expansion of manufacturing subsidiaries associated with a further increase in production of “Shoninzawa natural water,” and company-wide profitability improvement as a result, and promotion of automation of management operations, the effects of warm winters and a decline in sales of COVID-related products are also expected to increase drastically. The main initiatives for this fiscal year include continuing to further deepen the low-cost management structure, such as saving labor in store operations using IT, etc., promoting efficiency improvements in various operations, and strengthening store scrap and build efforts, etc., and we are also proceeding with measures such as improving profit margins through the development of new PB products, etc., and expanding the profit contributions of manufacturing subsidiaries through a further increase in production of the natural mineral water “Shoninzawa Natural Water,” aiming for a significant expansion of business results It's there. In particular, with regard to the planning of PB products, the company has set out a policy to work on strengthening the development of PB products as an important sales policy for the 2025/2 fiscal year.

(Written by FISCO Visiting Analyst Hiroki Nagaoka)