In recent years, the world economy has become increasingly chaotic. Global inflation has occurred due to fiscal spending by governments around the world in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The increased cost of food and energy from this has still not returned back to normal, and the global shortage of semiconductors that has occurred is yet to be resolved. The Japanese economy is also faced with a number of issues, such as wage increases not being sufficient to keep up with inflation, creating a situation where Japan’s economic stagnation that started in the 1990s to continue.

Considering these circumstances, our 10th fiscal year far exceeded initial forecasts, with sales of 10.518 billion yen and an operating profit of 520 million yen, both record highs making for our fifth consecutive year of increases in sales and profits. This is due to the fact that since going public, we have invested in human resources and M&A to the fullest extent to provide higher added value in our information services, leading to a steady growth of our existing businesses. We would like to express our deepest gratitude to our shareholders and everyone involved for their patronage and support.

For our 11th fiscal year, we are forecasting sales of 12.5 billion yen and an operating profit of 640 million yen to lead into our sixth consecutive year of increases in sales and profits. Our plan going forward is for sales of 13.8 billion yen and an operating profit of 768 million yen in 2025, followed by sales of 30 billion yen and an operating profit of 2.4 billion yen in 2030.

Even though the world economy has been in a state of chaos, demand for information systems has never been greater. Due to DX (the digital transformation), many companies have been forced to update their legacy systems. Furthermore, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry forecasts a shortage of 450,000 IT engineers by 2025 and 800,000 by 2030. In order to respond to this situation, we intend to further increase our human resource investment in recruitment and training, improve the retention of our engineers by improving their working conditions by 6%, and acquire a wide range of technologies and services through active M&A. In addition to DX, we predict that demand for information systems will further increase due to the rise of generative AI and efforts towards the realization of a carbon-neutral society.

As we aim for further growth, we will steadily move forward one step at a time, so we sincerely ask for your continued patronage and support.