Medium Term Business Plan

Medium-Term Business Plan 

FY2025.3 ▶ FY2027.3

*The information is as of May, 2024 (during the fiscal year ending March 2025).

Slogan and the Positioning of the Plan

Connecting Growth-Origin/Next 50

 

Based on our "Starting Point," "Strengths," and "Vision for the Future," we will develop niche, unique, and edgy businesses in the spirit of the Group, with an eye toward change over the next 10 years.

Business Environment Outlook

Automotive industry

 A once-in-a-century period of industry transformation.
Widespread adoption of connected cars and automated driving.
Changes in vehicle usage, such as CASE and MaaS.

Real estate industry

Rising real estate prices and polarization.
Delay in IT/DX in an industry.
Lack of condominium management staff.

Warranty-related industry

Due to an aging population and the shift to nuclear families, rent guarantees are increasingly in demand.
Continued expansion of product warranties, extended warranties, etc. due to growing interest in SDGs and awareness of using products for a long time.

Call center industry

Increased demand due to labor shortages across all industries.
Recruitment difficulties, rising labor costs.
AI diffusion.

Management Targets by FY2027.3

Strategy Overview

1. Creating growth potential

Thoroughly improve the quality and profitability of existing businesses.

【Company Actions】
Creating growth potential by improving quality and profitability

  • Revenue management for each BPO center/project

  • Selection and concentration of existing consigned projects and reasonable pricing

  • Common infrastructure for operation systems  

2. Development of service platform-based revenue model

Develop a pay-per-use business model that does not rely on human capital. 

Current example Charged per ID

【Challenges】No collaboration / No real-time sharing of data / Higher operating costs

【Advantages】

  • Reduced initial installation costs: Existing company phones can be used, and there is no need to overhaul the Internet environment, reducing costs.
  • Coexistence with existing external and internal company phones.
  • Real-time data sharing.
  • Unify multiple communication methods such as mobile phones and wireless used in the store.

 

Future pay-per-use business model
(example) Charged per case

Automatically calculates the amount of damage, using AI with captured images of vehicle damage when dispatching roadside assistance.

3. Flexible expansion of the sites

Meet growing demand by opening satellite BPO centers (Approx. 100-150 seats). 
  • Establish satellites to connect large BPO sites and promote employment by expanding the area as a whole rather than just a single point.
  • Targeting areas where commuting is long and recruiting is difficult, and where female participation in the workforce is high.
  • Rapidly expand contract capacity

Business Strategy

Strategies by segmentAutomotive Business

Existing projects

  • Reasonable Price
  • Expand existing demand
  • Manpower savings
  • Selection & Concentration

Opportunity to capture new demand

  • Working on CASE & MaaS
  • Accident assessment with AI
    (pay-per-use business model)
  • Provide service platforms such as automated operating systems
    (pay-per-use business model)
 
Related services
Existing services Developing services
Complete Vehicle Manufacturers
 
Customer center ・Autonomous driving
・Online show room
Non-life insurance  ・Roadside assistance
・Accident reception
・Emergency call
・Autonomous driving
・Accident assessment
Rent-a-car ・Roadside assistance ・CASE
Passenger transport ・MaaS
・Autonomous driving
Gas station ・EV charging equipment maintenance
Dealer/Retailer
 
・Extended warranty
・Maintenance program
・Integrated customer centers
・Online sales
・Battery recycling for EV vehicles
・Land transportation and delivery of vehicles
  • Three Strengths That Provide a Service TrinityProvide each service with functions that meet clients’ needs

Strategies by segmentProperty Business

 
  • Expansion of the targets of the service from the 53.7 million housing units.
 
  • Future generation services that combine patrol management and technologySmart Desk・Smart Call (Smart Management)

①Providing a solution to the caretaker shortage
by offering unmanned condominium management.

Housing equipment on-site support

Power flow

Signage

②Package includes unattended janitorial services.

Periodic cleaning

Disposing garbage

Regular patrol

③Provide services such as general reception and on-site support, etc. through alliances with multiple companies.

Management App

Support for
exclusive-use areas and common areas

Electronic lock


Point

These will be provided to condominium developers and management companies
as a future  generation management service.

Strategies by segmentGlobal Business

Increasing the number of touch points in the expatriate & international traveler market within the cycle from before departure to return home.

  • Create an economic zone for the Global Business.Aiming for new value creation
 

During travel/stay

Main services during travel/stay
  • Overseas Travel and Accident Insurance (OTAI)
  • Health Care Program (HCP)
  • Medical Support Program (MSP)
  • Japanese Help Desk (JHD)
  • Clinics (aka Premier Health Clinic, PHC)
  • US Credit Card Business (CARD)

Before departure and temporarily returning

In collaboration with HCP, promote the brand even before members move to the country to which they have been assigned.
Create opportunities for collaboration with local solution services such as JHD, HCP, and MSP, and establish an economic zone for PI's healthcare-related business across domestic and international borders. 

Point

Provide services as a foot in the door to address inbound needs, one of the few growth markets in Japan in the future.

JHD

Japanese Help Desk
Set up a help desk for Japanese patients in the hospital to assist them in every step of the process related to their medical treatment
*Commissions will be paid for each case of support.
53 locations in Southeast Asia
*As of the end of March 2024

PHC

Premier Health Clinic
The clinic specializes in medical care for Japanese people, including transparency in reimbursement and explanation of medical treatments and medicines in Japanese. 2 clinics in India
1 clinic in Mexico
*As of the end of March 2024

Strategies by segmentFinancial Guarantee

  • Growth and investment

Further expand and strengthen property rent guarantees as a pillar of growth and profit, and develop medical care and eldercare expense guarantees toward the growth stage.

Entrust Inc. Medium-Term Business Plan "Change the Stage: Advance to a New Stage of Growth" (FY2025-FY2027)[PDF:2,270KB] *Original title Change the Stage さらなる成長ステージへ躍進を果たす, available in Japanese only.

IT・DX

  • Developing in Vietnam, Myanmar and Thailand, with Singapore serving as the hub.
  • Promote the commonality, labor savings, and automation of the service platforms.

 

FY2024.3 FY2025.3 FY2027.3
Domestic 100 staff 100 staff 100 staff
Overseas
100 staff 200 staff 300 staff
Total
200 staff 300 staff 400 staff

Point

  • Voice and natural language dialogue services → Differential incoming calls and optimization
  • Applying image understanding technology → Accident assessment
  • Support for intellectual work → Information entry and registration, Improve back-office operations

Shareholder Return Policy

  • Increase the dividend payout ratio from the current level of approx. 30% to approx. 60% or more by the fiscal year ending March 2026.
  • Aiming for a total return ratio of at least 70%, a total of 13 billion yen will be returned to shareholders by the fiscal year 2027, the final year of the plan, including share repurchases (up to 3 billion yen), taking into account the share price situation.
  • Improve ROE and dividend yield to make the company an attractive to investment.
  • Dividend payout ratio60% or more by FY 2026.3
  • Total return ratio70% or more by FY 2027.3

Environment Initiatives

(unit: t-CO2)

Data FY2021.3 FY2024.3 Year of 2050
(FY2051.3)
Scope1 Gasoline and diesel fuel-based
3,101 4,133 0
LPG, LNG, City gas based 1,366 887 0
Total of Scope 1
4,467 5,019 0
Scope2 3,375 1,673 0
Total of Scope 1 and Scope 2 7,842 6,692 0
Reduction Amount vs. FY2021.3 △1,150 7,842
Reduction Ratio vs. FY2021.3 △14.7% 100.0%

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