Segments | Sub-Segments | March 2018 (Plan) (Billions of Yen) |
For the Next 3 Years | CAGR (%) | |
Amount of Increase (Billions of Yen) |
Growth Rates (%) | ||||
Equipment Business |
Imaging | 93.0 | +32.7 | 54 | 16 |
Optical | 36.0 | +14.8 | 70 | 19 | |
Illumination and Related Facilities |
3.0 | +0.7 | 30 | 9 | |
Sub-total | 132.0 | +48.0 | 57 | 16 | |
Light Sources Business |
Discharge | 70.0 | +12.4 | 22 | 7 |
Halogen | 15.0 | +0.8 | 6 | 2 | |
Sub-total | 85.0 | +13.1 | 18 | 6 | |
Others | Machinery for Industrial Use and Other Business |
3.0 | -0.3 | -9 | - |
Total | 220.0 | +60.7 | 38 | 11 |
We will improve business structure mainly from the following four viewpoints for the expansion of business earnings. These measures will leverage existing resources to their maximum extent and control the increase of cash outflow, improving operating efficiency and speeding up the rate of new products and creation of new businesses for the future.
On a Group-wide basis, actively allocate management resources from existing businesses to new and growth businesses.
To be able to respond to increasingly diverse needs, we must develop the ability to enter new markets and domains from development through sales and move from the OEM-centered style followed until now to convert into a proposal-style solutions business.
We will advance aggressively into new markets by creating a marketing innovations department and strengthening business strategies so that each business has a firm understanding of its roadmap.
Increase the amount spent on M&A, as well as the number of M&A projects, not only to acquire technologies and sales channels, but also to aquire outstanding human resources.
Currently, financial assets account for half of total assets. Going forward, accelerate conversion from financial assets to business assets and review policy shareholding. Cash obtained from selling policy shareholdings can be used for business investments such as M&A, moving away in the future from reliance on financial profits from financial assets to true business profits that will help maintain a stable ROE.
To achieve ROE targets we must make growth investments in businesses and strengthen shareholder returns to achieve balanced capital operations. Specifically, this means a policy of greater proactivity and activity by maintaining the current policy of stable payments of dividends, and for a certain period until we have increased the certainty of achieving sustainable business growth for the future, more proactively and flexibly repurchasing shares after taking into account projected free cash flows to be gained going forward and share price trends, as well as active engagement in business growth investment.