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Medium Term Management Plan

Medium-Term Management Plan 2024

1. About the formulation of Medium-Term Management Plan 2024
 In September 2018, the 50th anniversary of our founding, Kaga Electronics Co., Ltd. formulated its Medium-Term Management Plan 2021, covering the fiscal year ended March 2020 to the fiscal year ending March 2022. Viewing this three-year plan as a growth scenario aimed at the next 50 years, we have worked to carry out the plan's measures. In the plan's final fiscal year ending March 2022, we looked back on the midpoint and affirmed generally favorable progress, including a forecast for exceeding operating income and ROE management targets. To share the Group's path to growth over the next three years with our shareholders, investors, and other parties in our market, we have formulated Medium-Term Management Plan 2024.
2. Overview of Medium-Term Management Plan 2024
(1) Philosophy
① Corporate Philosophy
"Everything we do is for our customers"

② Vision
"Aim to be Japan’s No.1 corporate group in the industry"
"Aim to become a competitive World Class Company"

③ Action Guidelines
"F.Y.T." ("Flexibility," "Young," and "Try": "Agility to respond to change; Always take a fresh approach to creating new ideas or taking action; Never forget your commitment to take on daring challenges")

"3G" ("General," "Global," and "Group": "No matter what the product, we will look around the world, and leverage group strengths to give customers what they need")

"KAGA-ism" (Management mindset, sales mindset, readiness as members of society)

(2) Basic policy
 Our medium- to long-term vision is to be "Japan’s No. 1 corporate group in the industry" and "Aim to become a competitive World Class Company" while thoroughly engaging in profit-focused management. To make this vision a reality, in our next Medium-Term Management Plan we will develop measures in line with the following basic policy.

①Further strengthening of profitability
 We will predict the movements of the times and focus on markets with high potential for growth and profitability.

②Strengthening of our management foundation
 Pursuing further efficiency and soundness, we will effect a shift to a Group management foundation appropriate to "Japan’s No. 1 corporate group in the industry."

③Creation of new businesses
 We will make active use of venture investments and M&A to create new businesses and strengthen our resistance to changes in the external environment.

④ Promotion of SDGs management
 We will engage in management that seeks to achieve solutions to social issues and sustainable growth as a company.
(3) Key management targets
Items
Forecasts for FY2022/3
(Announced on Nov. 25, 2021)
Management Targets
for FY2025/3
Initial announcement
(Announced on Nov. 25, 2021)
Management Targets
for FY2025/3※
Latest outlook
(Announced on May 11, 2023)
Net sales
470 billion yen
750 billion yen
[No change]
Operating income
15.0 billion yen
20 billion yen
30 billion yen or higher
ROE
9.7%
8.5% or higher
stable 10% or higher
※ The Group has been working to achieve its goals in line with the growth strategies defined in the Medium-Term Management Plan 2024 announced on November 25, 2021.
As stated in the “Summary of Consolidated Financial Results for the Year Ended March 2023” disclosed today, in the fiscal year ended March 2023, the first year of the plan, the Company achieved all KPI targets for net sales, operating income, and ROE two years ahead of schedule for the final year of the plan, excluding new M&A targets, as a result of demonstrating the Group's procurement advantages to the fullest extent amid the continuing global shortage of semiconductors and electronic components.
Looking at the future prospects, the Company is expecting a scenario of a pick-up and return to a growth phase in the fiscal year ending March 2025, while incorporating the effects such as recession risk and temporary inventory adjustments by customers in the fiscal year ending March 2024.
As such, the Company has updated its earnings forecast for the final year of the plan, taking into account the rapid changes in the electronics industry to which the Group belongs and the accompanying changes in current earnings, which were unforeseen at the time the plan was formulated.
The Company will continue to develop various measures under its medium-term management plan with no changes to its basic policies, growth strategies, or other elements of the plan.
(4) Business portfolio plan (net sales)
Business segment
FY2022/3
Forecast
Management Targets
FY2025/3
3-year growth rate
Electronic components
313 billion yen
380 billion yen
21.4%
EMS※1
110 billion yen
150 billion yen
36.4%
CSI※2
40 billion yen
54 billion yen
35.0%
Others
12 billion yen
16 billion yen
33.3%
New M&A, etc.
150 billion yen
Total
475 billion yen
750 billion yen
57.9%
*1. Electronics Manufacturing Service: Provision of product development and manufacturing services on an outsourcing basis.
2. Consumer & System Integrator
(5) Basic policy concerning shareholder returns
Our company views the return of profits to shareholders as a key measure in management. Comprehensively taking into consideration investments that contribute to future growth, the maintenance of a sound financial foundation over the medium to long term, and the progress of our consolidated business results, we have set a 25–35% guideline for the consolidated dividend payout ratio, and the stable and continuous enhancement of dividend per share, as our basic policy.

Medium-Term Management Plan 2021

The Company celebrated the 50th anniversary of its founding in September,2018, and in order to make a new starting point towards the creation of the “KAGA ELECTRONICS GROUP of the Future” that looks towards the next fifty years and further ahead, formulated the “Medium Term Management Plan 2021 (2019 - 2021) ” as a three-year plan spanning from the period ending March 31, 2020 to the period ending March 31, 2022. An outline of this is provided below:
1.Basic Policies
●Enhancement of Revenue Base
Utilizing the Group’s DNA since the founding in which current trends are always foreseen, we shall focus on markets that are expected to see high growth and profitability in the future, and shall endeavor to strengthen the Group’s revenue base.
(1) Strengthening initiatives for growth sectors: Focusing on in-vehicle, communications, environment, industrial equipment, and medical/healthcare.
(2) Strengthening and expanding the EMS business and overseas business

●Stabilization of Management Base
Aiming to strengthen the management base towards early improvement of efficiency and financial soundness after conversion of Fujitsu Electronics to a subsidiary.
(1) Continuation of group-wide cost reduction measures
(2) Promotion of the improved group management efficiency through the development of organizational structure
(3) Strengthening of corporate governance, development of human resources

●Creation of New Business
In order to strengthen resistance to changes in the external environment, we shall endeavor to create new business through the proactive use of our own resources and M&A.
(1) Launching of social issues (childcare, welfare, nursing care, etc.) business and materials business
(2) Promotion of open innovation through venture investment
(3) Active use of M&A

2.Management Targets
The management targets serving as goals for the period ending March 31, 2022, which is the final year of the plan, are as shown below:
Sales
Operating Income
ROE
500.0 billion yen
13.0 billion yen
8% or higher
 
3.Positioning of the “Medium Term Management Plan 2021 (2019-2021)”
The Company, through the establishment and taking hold of “profit-focused management,” shall form “Japan’s No. 1 corporate group in the industry,” and furthermore, has adopted a medium to long term management vision of aiming to become “World Class Company.”
Towards the realization of this vision, in the “Medium Term Management Plan 2021 (2019-2021),” we shall aim to expand our size through the conversion of Fujitsu Electronics to a subsidiary, and shall consolidate our business base as “Japan’s No. 1 corporate group in the industry,” with sales in the region of 500.0 billion yen.
Using this as a springboard, on a medium to long term time frame, we shall further expand the EMS business, shall strengthen and expand overseas business, and in addition, shall aim to expand our size by challenging towards further M&A and industry reorganization, and through this we shall compete with overseas competitors with sales in the order of trillions of yen, and shall aim to become a “World Class Company” that will survive even in global competition.
4.Concepts on Return to Shareholders
The Company has positioned the return of profits to shareholders as one of the most important management policies, and in addition to endeavoring to strengthen its financial position and management foundation with a long term perspective, has the basic policy of maintaining stable and ongoing dividends to all shareholders in conjunction with the consolidated results.
Based on this policy, in the “Medium Term Management Plan 2021 (2019-2022) ” we have stated the target of stably providing dividends while securing a consolidated dividend ratio of 25 to 35%. In addition, we shall actively use business investment, capital investment, and M&A, etc. to contribute to the future growth of the Group. It should be noted regarding the acquisition of treasury shares, that decisions on this shall be made appropriately, in consideration of capital efficiency and the share price, etc.

*1) EMS business: Electronic equipment manufacture contracting services. The Company utilizes its strengths as an independent electronics trading company to become a leader in the installation of electronic boards.


Medium-Term Management Plan 2018