Carrier Link ＜6070＞ announced consolidated financial results for the fiscal year ending 2024/3 on the 14th. Net sales decreased 16.6% from the previous fiscal year to 43.791 billion yen, operating profit fell 56.9% to 3.279 billion yen, ordinary profit fell 57.1% to 3.280 billion yen, and net income attributable to parent company shareholders fell 61.5% to 2.201 billion yen.
Sales of the administrative human resources service business decreased 21.6% from the previous fiscal year to 36.682 billion yen, and operating profit fell 59.6% to 2,980 billion yen. Sales in the BPO related business division decreased 26.6% from the same period to 27.09 billion yen. There were scale reductions and termination of large-scale projects ordered in the previous fiscal year, loss of orders due to the adoption of “general competitive bidding” (price competition method) in some local government BPO contract projects, and reduction in order prices for successfully bid projects. Sales in the CRM-related business division decreased 4.2% from the same period to 4.271 billion yen. There were cases where projects received orders from major BPO operators etc. in the previous fiscal year were reduced in scale or terminated. Sales in the general office business division decreased 1.6% from the same period to 5.402 billion yen. There were scale reductions or terminations for spot projects from local government offices and existing projects from financial institutions that were ordered in the previous fiscal year.
Sales of the manufacturing human resources service business increased 24.4% from the previous fiscal year to 6.818 billion yen, and operating profit increased 26.0% to 254 million yen. In the food processing division, in addition to the fact that the volume of orders received from existing business partners, mainly in industries such as meat processing, fishery processing, confectionery manufacturing, and delicatessen manufacturing, etc., the amount of orders received in the manufacturing processing sector increased in industries such as housing equipment manufacturing, machine manufacturing, etc.
Sales from other businesses decreased 1.4% from the previous fiscal year to 290 million yen, and operating profit increased 59.2% from the same period to 44 million yen. It is an “automobile management business” in Tokyo Motor Management, which is a subsidiary of Japan Business Service, and there were effects such as employee retirement.
Regarding the consolidated earnings forecast for the full year ending 2025/3, we expect sales to increase 9.6% from the previous fiscal year to 48.00 billion yen, operating profit up 6.6% to 3.495 billion yen, ordinary profit up 6.4% to 3.49 billion yen, and net income attributable to parent company shareholders to increase 8.5% to 2.389 billion yen.