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I am Takashi Kiryu, Chief Strategy Officer.I will be taking you through our medium-term earnings targets and initiatives to drive further growth.
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We set three-year medium-term earnings targets of ¥400 – 500 billion in net sales and ¥60 – 75 billion in operating income along with improvement in the operating margin.
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First, as part of our initiatives to drive further growth, we intend to focus further on strengthening our existing Digital Entertainment business. At the same time, we will continue to take on challenges in new domains such as AI, the cloud, and blockchain, our focus investment fields.
Next, I will discuss the initiatives we implemented in FY2023/3.
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In order to bolster the competitive strength and profitability of the HD Games and Games for Smart Devices/PC Browser sub-segments within the Digital Entertainment segment, we divested select overseas studios and IP and worked on reshaping the medium/long-term title portfolio for the Group as a whole in FY2023/3.
We will continue to focus on initiatives aimed at further strengthening the HD Games and Games for Smart Devices/PC Browser sub-segments as core businesses within the Group.
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We also took steps to strengthen our publishing structure with the aim of growing sales of our content in global markets.
By incorporating more of a “market-in” approach into our traditional development process, which was largely based on the “product-out” approach, we intend to build a robust structure that allows us to better reflect the needs of the market and our users into our content.
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We also deployed various initiatives in new domains.
We are looking to generate growth both organically and inorganically, including through the forming of a capital and business alliance with gumi, and investments in start-up companies in Japan and overseas.
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Examples of inorganic growth initiatives include taking minority stakes in multiple start-up companies in Japan and overseas, as well as working to gather intelligence and obtain cutting-edge insights in the relevant domains.