Company name：Recruit Holdings co,Ltd  

Listed stock exchange：Tokyo Stock Exchange

Securities code：6908

Recruit Holdings co,Ltd  has three reportable segments,namely

• HR Technology

• Media&solutions

• Staffing 

The HR Media segment consists of Domestic Recruiting operations and Overseas Recruiting operations,and provides services such as recruitment advertisements and employment placement

Comprehensive income

Year ended March 31.2017    ¥ 61219 Million  Yen

Year ended March 31.2016    ¥ 47598 Million  Yen

As of March 31, 2017, the Japanese economy is in a recovery track, the employment situation stabilized at a high level. Europe and the US economy continue to focus on personal consumption.

Due to the economic outlook of Brexit and the new US government, the Australian economy remained robust, benefiting from personal consumption growth.

In this environment, the Group continues to work to strengthen its business in Japan and further promote global expansion. And actively seek through mergers and acquisitions and other measures to strengthen and expand the business base. 

In our Overseas Recruiting operations(Bo Le Associates is categorized in this segment), we undertook initiatives to increase the number of users and clients, mainly through efforts to promote brand awareness and develop our salesforce.

As a result of the above, net sales for the previous year amounted to ¥1839.9 billion yuan, an increase of 15.8%.The net sales of human resources media business was ¥405.3 billion, up 12.8% year on year and segment revenue (EBITDA) was 94.6 billion yuan, up 7.6% year on year.

In the Overseas Recruiting operations,as a result of measures such as the promotion of Indeed.com’s brand awareness in the United States，the current focus of our business,as well as in other countries through advertising activities and the development of our sales force,net sales were favorable due to the continuous growth in the usage of our services.

As a result,net sales in our Overseas Recruiting operations were ¥120.2 billion,an increase of 42.5% year on year.

Cash used in investing activities during the year ended March 31,2017 was 214.2 billion,a year-on-year increase of 104.6 billion or 95.5%.This was mainly due to payments for purchase of intangible assets of 49.0 billion and payments for purchase of investments in subsidiaries resulting in change in scope of consolidation due to mergers and acquisitions in the Staffing segment of 176.6 billion.

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