Global Communication Planning Co.,Ltd. Q2 FY2025 earnings call

• Market Target Expansion: The company is pursuing broad outreach to meet diverse merchant needs across all business sizes, including acquiring small-scale merchants through card company partnerships and subscription-based multi-payment terminal services. It has launched V-Point payment ASP services for food service merchants, and aims to expand market reach by growing its alliance partner network.
• International Brand Payment Network Connection Service: The strategic goal of this service is to reduce payment costs and improve overall profit margins by shifting merchant connections to international brand payment networks. The company has begun concrete commercial negotiations with selected merchants for this offering.
• Subscription-based Multi-Payment Terminal Sales: The company's Sakura subscription terminal service reduces up-front costs for merchants, enabling low-cost access to cashless payment for businesses of any size. The offering is easy for alliance partners to distribute, creating upside for user growth. Operational progress includes: launch for large shopping center clients starting August 2024, rollout of subscription contracts for local restaurants starting December 2024, and launch of new subscription proposals using new terminal models from Newland Payment Technology.
• Payment Fee Revenue Growth: The company is developing a consolidated solution that unifies multiple payment-related contracts to simplify cashless payment adoption for merchants. When paired with the Sakura terminal subscription service, this offering is expected to drive growth in recurring stable revenue. Progress includes execution of an agency agreement with a credit-based card company, and a planned upcoming execution of a comprehensive agency agreement with a bank-affiliated card company.

1. Payment Integration Business: Revenue decreased 43% year-over-year, a 202 million yen reduction, resulting in an operating loss due to the year-over-year decline. It contributed 33.9% progress against full-year revenue plan, aligned with pre-planned second-half weighted revenue recognition. 2. Payment Service Business: Revenue increased 29.2% year-over-year, a 142 million yen increase driven by new subscription revenue recognition. Despite the revenue growth, the segment recorded a year-over-year profit decline due to upfront recognition of terminal costs. 3. Other business: The NUCADOCO business was discontinued in August 2024 and removed from reporting segments; the company continues development of new business lines. Total company revenue for the quarter was 899 million yen, a 6.2% year-over-year decline, with an operating loss of 72 million yen.

The full-year revenue plan is unchanged from original guidance. Overall year-to-date revenue progress against the full-year forecast is 47.2%, which is in line with expectations. The lower 33.9% progress rate for the Payment Integration segment is intentional, as the business was planned from the outset to weight revenue recognition to the second half of the fiscal year.

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