Monthly Operations Summary FY2022 (Mar 2022)

Convenience Store Business in Japan

Sales

(YOY)

Lawson Business(LAWSON and NATURAL LAWSON)
Existing Stores Sales 100.7%
Number of Customers 97.7%
Spending per Customer 103.1%
All Stores Sales 103.7%

*This chart shows the total sales of LAWSON and NATURAL LAWSON operated by Lawson, Inc. Sales of Lawson Kochi, Inc., Lawson Minami-Kyushu, Inc., and Lawson Okinawa, Inc. are not included.
*Existing stores: Figures of tickets and gift card etc. are not included.

Stores

(Number)

Lawson Group
Opening 19
Closure 11
Total Number of Stores 14664

*The number of stores in Lawson Group includes Lawson, Inc., Lawson Kochi, Inc., Lawson Minami-Kyushu, Inc., and Lawson Okinawa, Inc.

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The sales result of LAWSON Business (LAWSON and NATURAL LAWSON) in March is as follows*1.
Existing-store sales (excluding ticket and gift card sales etc.) increased 0.7% year on year over the same period and the average number of customers per store decreased 2.3% and the average customer spend rose 3.1% year on year.

The Lawson Group operated 14,664 convenience stores in Japan at the end of March 2022, including 136 NATURAL LAWSON stores and 669 LAWSON STORE 100 stores.

<Sales situation>
・In frozen foods, frozen desserts and noodles, contributed to sales.
・In the "Machikado Chubo", an in-store cooking service, were strong with new products such as " Grilled Beef & Vegetable Rice Bowl", and standard products such as "Thick Pork Cutlet Rice Bowl with Sauce" and "Mixed-seafood Tempura Rice Bowl".
・In rice products category, sales of the "Boxed lunches" series continued to drive sales.
The popular "Seaweed & Assorted Fried Food Bento" also went on sale in the "Boxed lunches" series.
・In cooked noodles, sales of the 4 large size products newly launched from the Pasta series supervised by Specialty restaurant were favorable.
・In over-the-counter fast food products, sales were boosted by the "KARAAGE-KUN Fried Chicken, 3-Flavor Mix" which was launched to commemorate the last 35th anniversary of KARAAGE-KUN.
・In dessert category, sales of the "NAMA CUSTARD CREAM PUFF" exceeded the cumulative sales of 5 million units in 16 days contributed to sales.
・As a sales promotion measure, “accumulate stamps campaign” of popular male idol group (March 1-May 30) and others were implemented.

Cigarette sales were a factor that pushed up existing-store sales in March by about 1.0 point year-on-year.

Note 1: Sales of the LAWSON Business include sales generated by LAWSON stores (excluding Lawson Okinawa, Inc., Lawson Minami-Kyushu, Inc., and Lawson Kochi, Inc.), NATURAL LAWSON stores.

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