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The sales result of Lawson, Inc. is as follows. Total sales at all stores in February amounted to 150,277 million yen, a 0.04% down year on year. Existing-store sales fell 1.5% over the same period. Average daily sales per store (all stores) totaled 500 thousand yen, while the average number of customers per store (existing stores) rose 0.7% to 782, and the average customer spend at existing stores fell 2.3% to 588 yen. The existing LAWSON stores’ sales in Japan*1 fell 1.4% in February.
Below is a breakdown of the existing-store sales performance by individual merchandise categories.
Sandwiches and other chilled bakery items exceeded the sales amount of previous year in February, as satisfactory sales of newly launched Sandwich.
Special product promotions in the evening and at night and sales of wholly-redesigned salads gave a considerable boost to year-on-year sales of Delicatessen category.
Special product promotions in the evening and at night gave a considerable boost to year-on-year sales of Dairy foods category as well.
Sales of over-the-counter fast foods gained over the previous year’s level. New flavor of “Karaage-kun”, “French Fries” made of European potatoes launched last month and sales of MACHI café promoted with Hawaiian doughnut helped boost sales there.
The sharp fall in cigarette sales accounted for approximately 1.5 point of the year-on-year fall in existing-store sales in February.
The Lawson Group operated 12,276 stores in Japan at the end of February 2015, including 116 NATURAL LAWSON stores and 1,151 LAWSON MART/LAWSON STORE100 stores.
Regarding LAWSON MART / LAWSON STORE100 under the restructuring program, existing-store sales fell 3.3% year on year in February (customer numbers: -2.4%; customer spend: -1.0%). In February, we opened 1 store and closed 1 store.
Lawson plans to announce its earnings results for FY2014 on Friday, April 9, 2015. Summary of financial results and supplementary information will be posted on this website.
Note 1: Lawson, Inc. sales include sales generated by LAWSON stores (excluding Lawson Okinawa, Inc. and Lawson Minami-Kyusyu, Inc.), NATURAL LAWSON stores and LAWSON MART/LAWSON STORE100 stores. The LAWSON operation in Japan, equating to the non-consolidated performance disclosed up until January 2014, consists of sales generated by LAWSON, Inc. minus sales generated by LAWSON MART/LAWSON STORE100 stores.
LAWSON Group (Total of convenience store business) | |||||||
SEP | OCT | NOV | DEC | JAN | FEB | TOTAL | |
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Opening in Japan | 61 | 85 | 65 | 71 | 40 | 175 | |
Closure in Japan | 64 | 23 | 30 | 33 | 18 | 40 | |
Net Increase in Japan | -3 | 62 | 35 | 38 | 22 | 135 | |
Total Number of Stores in Japan | 11984 | 12046 | 12081 | 12119 | 12141 | 12276 | |
Total Number of Stores Abroad | 533 | 541 | 554 | 587 | 587 | 591 | |
LAWSON stores in Japan (Excluding affiliated company accounted for by the equity-method) | |||||||
Opening | 57 | 80 | 58 | 66 | 37 | 169 | |
Closure | 39 | 21 | 27 | 28 | 14 | 34 | |
Net Increase | 17 | 59 | 30 | 37 | 23 | 138 | |
Total Number of Stores in Japan | 10346 | 10405 | 10435 | 10472 | 10495 | 10633 | |
NATURAL LAWSON stores in Japan | |||||||
Opening | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | |
Closure | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
Net Increase | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | |
Total Number of Stores in Japan | 110 | 111 | 112 | 115 | 116 | 116 | |
LAWSON STORE100 stores in Japan | |||||||
Opening | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Closure | 25 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
Net Increase | -22 | 0 | 2 | -1 | 0 | -5 | |
Total Number of Stores in Japan | 1155 | 1155 | 1157 | 1156 | 1156 | 1151 |
* The number of stores is a total number of stores operated by the Lawson group including the number of stores operated by Equity method affiliates and unconsolidated affiliates.
**Total Number of Stores in Japan include satellite stores.
Lawson, Inc. (Non-consolidated) | |||||||
SEP | OCT | NOV | DEC | JAN | FEB | ||
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All Stores (YOY) | 99.5% | 101.1% | 99.8% | 99.8% | 101.1% | 100.0% | |
Existing Stores (YOY) | 98.5% | 99.1% | 98.2% | 98.5% | 99.4% | 98.5% | |
Ave. Daily Sales per Store (Thousands of yen) | 517 | 521 | 504 | 524 | 490 | 500 | |
Number of Customers | (Number) | 852 | 849 | 819 | 796 | 755 | 782 |
YOY | 97.6% | 98.4% | 96.9% | 97.7% | 99.1% | 100.7% | |
Spending per Customer | (Yen) | 567 | 575 | 575 | 608 | 597 | 588 |
YOY | 100.9% | 100.6% | 101.4% | 100.9% | 100.4% | 97.7% | |
LAWSON and NATURAL LAWSON Business | |||||||
SEP | OCT | NOV | DEC | JAN | FEB | ||
All Stores (YOY) | 100.4% | 102.1% | 100.9% | 100.8% | 102.3% | 101.2% | |
Existing Stores (YOY) | 98.8% | 99.4% | 98.7% | 98.8% | 99.8% | 98.6% | |
Ave. Daily Sales per Store (Thousands of yen) | 527 | 532 | 515 | 538 | 503 | 513 | |
Number of Customers | (Number) | 841 | 840 | 812 | 792 | 751 | 778 |
YOY | 98.0% | 99.0% | 97.5% | 98.2% | 99.7% | 101.2% | |
Spending per Customer | (Yen) | 583 | 592 | 591 | 624 | 612 | 602 |
YOY | 100.8% | 100.4% | 101.2% | 100.6% | 100.0% | 97.4% | |
LAWSON STORE100 Business | |||||||
SEP | OCT | NOV | DEC | JAN | FEB | ||
Existing Stores (YOY) | 95.8% | 95.7% | 93.5% | 96.0% | 96.2% | 96.7% | |
Number of Customers (YOY) | 95.0% | 94.2% | 92.0% | 94.3% | 94.6% | 97.6% | |
Spending per Customer (YOY) | 100.9% | 101.6% | 101.7% | 101.9% | 101.8% | 99.0% |