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• Company Overview

  • Planet provides inter-company data exchange (EDI) platform services, acting as information infrastructure supporting the distribution of daily consumer goods including daily necessities and cosmetics.
  • The company is currently pursuing four core growth strategies to drive sustained expansion.

• Core Growth Strategy 1: Core EDI Service Expansion and Deep Data Utilization

  • Planet's core EDI service already has approximately 90% penetration in its core daily necessities and cosmetics industry, with the company targeting adjacent industries including pet care, OTC pharmaceuticals, horticulture, and health food, where penetration currently sits between 30% and 50%.
  • The number of client manufacturers outside of the core daily necessities and cosmetics industry grew 6% from 570 companies at July 2022 fiscal year-end to 603 companies at the end of the 2026 July fiscal year second quarter, with steady growth across high-affinity adjacent sectors.
  • Alongside horizontal expansion, the company is deepening data utilization for existing clients: the company currently has over 90% utilization for core daily transaction data, and is expanding into monthly operational data, including the growing

• Full year 2026 July fiscal year second half performance guidance is maintained unchanged from the initial plan set at the start of the fiscal year, with no upward or downward revisions.
  • The company will continue to balance maintaining its existing business base and building out future growth pathways: it will ensure stable operation of its core EDI platform (the medium- and long-term revenue pillar) and maintain existing service revenue, while creating new usage scenarios and strengthening its revenue base by capturing client policy shifts and offering optimal new data service proposals in preparation for growth beyond 2027.
  • To accelerate the launch of new services, the company will pursue multiple approaches including strengthening in-house development capabilities, leveraging M&A and external expertise, to establish next-generation revenue sources as early as possible.
  • The company plans to fundamentally reform its personnel evaluation system to improve organizational execution capability, transition to a more autonomous organizational structure, and enhance the value of its human capital to support strategic execution.

The full company-level financial results for the reporting period are as follows: Net sales totaled 1.573 billion yen, a 1.2% decrease year-over-year. Operating income was 0.316 billion yen, a 10.7% increase year-over-year. Ordinary income was 0.333 billion yen, an 11.3% increase year-over-year. Interim net income was 0.224 billion yen, a 12.8% increase year-over-year. The transcript does not break out separate financial performance for individual product segments with absolute amounts or revenue contribution percentages.

No explicit discussion of material operational risks, financial risks, or operational failures is included in the provided transcript.

Q: Having followed your company's history, I heard your commentary today centered on the keywords of "expansion" and "deepening". You started with core EDI services, moved into Logistics EDI, and most recently launched Product Registry Service (PRS). Along the way you also established partnerships with True Data and istyle, which has created a strong impression of expanding group structure. Your core EDI service continues to grow in high-affinity areas such as pet care — how far do you plan to expand across the general consumer goods sector overall? Could you also share your vision for your group expansion going forward?

A: Planet has not articulated a clear formal position on group-wide business expansion at this time. As we have pursued growth and expansion, we have explored a wide range of services and markets and pursued many different initiatives to date. We believe the optimal approach is to select our operational structure based on case-by-case evaluation: we consider whether advancing a project as a single Planet entity is optimal, or whether developing the business as a separate entity in partnership with other specialized firms that have relevant capabilities is a better fit, and choose our structure accordingly. This approach has led to our current structure, including the establishment of PRS and our partnership with True Data. Planet is a company that has grown based on EDI infrastructure, and we will continue to pursue further growth centered on our EDI core going forward. When considering opportunities that branch off from this core, we will pursue high-affinity areas in-house, but we believe that developing areas further from our core as separate entities allows for better business positioning that accounts for industry dynamics, market conditions, and competitive relationships. We have not committed to grouping all new initiatives under the Planet umbrella, and we will select the appropriate structural approach based on the specific requirements of each new business we pursue.