Monthly Operational Summary FY2005 (June 2005)

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Total sales increased 5.9% year-on-year, to 119,009 million yen. Existing store sales edged up 0.6%. Average daily sales per store were 494,000 yen, while the average amount spent per customer was 573 yen, a decrease of 1.1%. The average number of customers per store per day rose 1.7%, to 860.

Existing store markups exceeded the June 2004 level.

Sales were strong in all but a few areas, supported by a 30th anniversary commemorative campaign and favorable weather, particularly in western Japan.

Sales in the rice dishes category edged down from the June 2004 level. Stores continued to feature a wide range of products offering superb value, including a commemorative 30th-anniversary boxed lunch (500 yen), products in the Gohantei series of boxed lunches, notably grilled chicken and spicy curry with five-grain rice (500 yen), and onigiri (rice balls) made with Niigata Koshihikari rice, including one filled with Korean-style thinly sliced beef rib (180 yen). New products are also offered in July, including a boxed lunch featuring kabayaki (grilled eel basted with a sweet sauce on rice) (580 yen), which is a seasonal favorite, and the Double Curry lunchbox, created by a committee established within LAWSON to develop better-tasting and more appealing curries.

Sales in the fast food category remained brisk, owing to the release of Big Nankotsu Tsukune (minced chicken and chicken cartilage kebabs) (120 yen), a 30th-anniversary commemorative offering, and the launch of such new products as Cheese in Potato (120 yen), as well as intensive promotional efforts, including product displays highlighting the filling and satisfying size of these products, at stores nationwide.

In the beverage category, sales were hampered by the absence of a major hit like Healthya, a bottled tea beverage that boosted results in 2004.

As of the end of June, in addition to our nationwide network of regular LAWSON stores, we had 28 NATURAL LAWSON stores and seven STORE100 stores. Data for June represents the results of 8,132 stores. Data for STORE100-format stores is not included.

On Tuesday, July 5, LAWSON announced its first-quarter results for the year ending February 28, 2006. Click here for the Flash report and supplementary information.

Monthly Data

For Print

Consolidated

Number of Stores

  MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB TOTAL
Opening 53 58 43 58 69 84 27 53 57 64 32 92 690
  Closure 39 36 12 11 29 12 21 13 13 41 9 38 274
Re-location 20 10 13 16 17 17 11 13 19 7 8 11 162
Subtotal 59 46 25 27 46 29 32 26 32 48 17 49 436
Total 8,071 8,083 8,101 8,132 8,155 8,210 8,205 8,232 8,257 8,273 8,288 8,331 8,331
Net Increase -6 12 18 31 23 55 -5 27 25 16 15 43 254

Sales

  MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB
Total Sales
(¥millions)
117,701 116,632 117,141 119,009 127,314 128,829 117,934 118,673 111,764 121,007 109,258 102,335
All Stores yoy 104.9% 104.4% 103.4% 105.9% 100.8% 102.7% 103.3% 101.3% 99.6% 99.6% 99.6% 99.7%
Existing Store yoy 99.9% 99.3% 98.3% 100.6% 95.8% 97.8% 98.5% 96.4% 95.1% 95.4% 95.5% 95.2%
Ave.Daily Sales per store
(¥thousands)
477 487 473 494 510 514 485 471 459 478 431 446
Number of Customers (Number) 790 824 809 860 865 872 839 826 803 781 725 766
comparison w/
previous yr
100.3% 100.5% 99.8% 101.7% 95.5% 99.9% 98.9% 100.1% 98.0% 97.1% 97.2% 99.0%
Spending per Customer (¥) 601 589 582 573 588 588 577 569 570 611 593 580
comparison w/
previous yr
99.6% 98.9% 98.5% 98.9% 100.4% 97.9% 99.7% 96.3% 97.0% 98.3% 98.2% 96.2%

Number of Stores by Region and Prefecture

  MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB
Hokkaido 496 498 496 500 504 504 502 503 500 499 499 500
Tohoku 736 738 738 738 739 744 743 745 747 746 747 755
Kanto 2,113 2,113 2,124 2,140 2,149 2,164 2,165 2,171 2,174 2,175 2,173 2,183
Koshinetsu 305 305 306 304 303 305 304 303 306 306 306 304
Hokuriku 236 237 236 239 242 244 244 246 246 249 249 249
Tokai 643 638 639 636 636 646 648 646 656 656 660 662
Kinki 1,766 1,770 1,780 1,781 1,782 1,788 1,786 1,796 1,800 1,805 1,807 1,818
Chugoku 463 465 465 465 464 467 466 470 475 474 476 482
Shikoku 383 389 386 390 391 395 396 400 400 404 407 407
Kyushu 930 930 931 939 945 953 951 952 953 959 964 971
Total 8,071 8,083 8,101 8,132 8,155 8,210 8,205 8,232 8,257 8,273 8,288 8,331
Shanghaig 218 225 230 237 247 255 263 269 276 285 280 281

Note)Data for LAWSON STORE100 is not included.

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