| We are pleased to inform that we have recently established
a Group-based Medium-Term Management Plan, by positioning
the three years starting April 2000 as the "period to establish
a new growth base and determine the direction of management,"
aiming to create a "new Mitsui Fudosan Group, rich in growth
possibilities and profitability, in the 21st century." |
<Circumstances of establishing this plan>
Mitsui Fudosan (Parent Company) is presently carrying out
a three-year medium-term management plan (FY1998 to 2000).
It basic policy is to improve return on assets and to further
extend and strengthen the nonasset business. The target indicators
projected are expected to be generally achieved.
Also, as has been already announced, we will conduct further
structural improvement in the two years of FY 1999 and 2000,
and to collectively handle pending problems on a Group level.
This structural improvement will complete our restructuring
following the collapse of the bubble economy.
Based on a company structure that has been strengthened through
the structural improvement achieved so far, we have come to
establish and announce the titled Group Medium-Term Management
Plan. |
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| 1. The present Mitsui Fudosan (parent company) , medium-term
management plan and structural improvement |
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(1) Target indicators and the state of progress of Mitsui
Fudosan, medium-term management plan (forecast for FY
2000)
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- ROA*1) :3% --- Business Profit*2) FY2000
forecast 60 billion year Total Asset March 31 2001 estimate
about 2,060 billion yen
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- Balance of interest-bearing debt: 1 trillion yen or
less --- The balance has been less than 1 trillion yen
for the three consecutive years, that is FY ended March
1998, 1999, and 2000. For the current fiscal year ending
March 2001, the balance is prospected to exceed 1 trillion
yen. This is due to the influence of restructuring, but
without this special factor, a level below 1 trillion
yen will be maintained.
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- The Debt-to-Equity ratio, which we aim to be 2.0, is
prospected to be about 2.4. This too is due to the influence
of restructuring, but by implementing the titled Plan
we aim to further increase profit and recover Shareholders'
Equity as soon as possible.
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*1)ROA(parent)=Business profit /Total Assets
*2) Business Profit=operating profit + interest and
dividends received
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(2) Structural improvement
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As was announced in February, we decided to book an appraisal
loss on some of our properties, and to implement structural
improvement of some of our Group companies. We plan to
post a loss of about 200 billion yen, in total, for the
two years of FY 1999 and 2000. Through these measures,
structural improvement following the collapse of the bubble
economy will be completed on the Group level, and we will
stand at the starting point of the "new Mitsui Fudosan
in the 21st century."
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| 2. Background of establishing this plan - a paradigm shift
and its measures |
| Through acceleration of the paradigm shift related to real
estate, real estate industry in the 21st century will evolve
into an "industry that add value to real estate." Mitsui Fudosan
Group will raise profit and expand the corporate value of
the entire group by fully demonstrating its ability to add
value to real estate. Adding value to real estate also conforms
to our Group's stated goal "Bringing affluence and comfort
to Cities," in the sense of achieving the revitalization of
cities. From these points of view the social significance
of real estate business is extremely high. |
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| <Reference> |
| *Paradigm shift and real estate business in the 21st century |
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| The appearance of professionals that add value to real estate
is being demanded. |
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| 3. Content of the Group Medium-Term Management Plan |
- The recently established Group Medium-Term Management
Plan aims to determine the direction to make a new Mitsui
Fudosan Group, rich in growth possibilities and profitability
in the 21st century.
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- First, we established the ideal image of our Group
for the time point when the real estate market will have
evolved, as expected, and when the asset strategy and
non-asset strategy we are presently carrying out will
have born fruit. For example, at the time point of 2006,
which we think will be an attainment point, we expect
to achieve an ROA*3) that exceeds 5% without increasing
total assets, with 150 billion yen in operating profit
and a balance of 1,200 billion yen in interest-bearing
debt.
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*3: ROA (consolidated) = (operating profit + interest
and dividends received + investment profit and loss by
the share method)/ total assets
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- However, in a situation, when the paradigm is rapidly
and greatly shifting and the business environment remarkably
changing, instead of establishing a long-term plan, we
thought it more important to set a medium-term target
and ensure its progress, and to change our structure in
accordance with the shifting paradigm. Therefore, we determined
the direction of management for the three years from FY
2000 to 2002, to establish a new growth foundation toward
realization of an "ideal image."
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- Regarding our financial strength, effectiveness, etc.,
we have established levels to be reached during
these three years. The plan includes specific strategies
to achieve these levels. An outline is as follows.
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(1) Quantitative targets (FY2002)
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The target management indicators are as shown in the
following table.
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Consolidated |
Parent |
| Operating profit |
105 billion yen |
60 billion yen |
| Interest-bearing Debt |
1,450 billion yen |
945 billion yen |
| ROA*1, *3 |
3.9% |
3.2% |
| Balance of total assets |
2,850 billion yen |
2,010 billion yen |
| Debt-to-Equity ratio |
3.2 |
2.1 |
| Operating cash flow |
110 billion yen |
65 billion yen |
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(2) Strategy of the entire Group
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The strategy throughout the entire Group is as follows.
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1) Customer-oriented management
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Office building business: thorough tenant-oriented management
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- Promote multi-core area development in response to area
needs
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- Promote IT (Information Technology)
preparations, such as renovating the building and upgrading
the buildings' telecommunication infrastructure, to respond
to customer needs
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Housing business: thorough customer-oriented management
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- Develop MOC (Mitsui Open Communication) further more
powerfully, and implement product plans based on pursuit
of customers' needs.
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- Expand housing-leasing business and aggressively handle
Internet-equipped high-class condominiums and midtown
housing.
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2) Asset strategy
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Expanded returns through minimum investment (acquire
maximum business opportunities through minimum investment)
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ex.
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- Office building business: Introduction of a partner-type,
third-party capital for "Shiodome block B," etc.
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: Usage of Special Purpose Company for the "Shinnikko
Bldg.," etc.
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- Shopping mall business: Usage of Special Purpose Company
for "Shoppers' Mall, Fukuoka Marina Town"
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- Housing lot sale business: Usage of Special Purpose
Company in high-class condominium sales.
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Usage of real-property-specific joint business (anonymous
association method) for "Park Nova Nogizaka" and "Fine
Court Tsurukawa"
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Improvement of the asset turnover rate (mainly in housing
lot sale business)
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- Conduct investment control using IRR and shorten the
project schedule (to minimizemarket risk).
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3) "Nonasset" strategy
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- Expand business through optimal usage of the know-how
and management resources we have cultivated through managing
our own assets.
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- Manage an entire project through minimum investment
and further extend and strengthen the nonasset
business.
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- Pursue thorough profit control and cost control, by
separately controlling revenues from property management
and leasing management as revenue from nonasset
activities.
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- Change our corporate constitution and cost structure,
to receive orders of nonasset business from a third
party, by making property management and leasing management
into a service industry.
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4) Construction of the optimal value chain
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- As the paradigm shift related to real estate progresses,
each business involving office buildings, commercial facilities,
and housing will be further divided into different functions,
such as development, construction, management, and control.
And within the Group, there are groups of subsidiaries
that have accumulated management skills regarding respective
functions. To create added value through producing the
maximum synergetic efficacy by regrouping these companies.
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- To aim at optimization and efficiency improvement of
the Group, including integration and reorganization of
companies having the same function.
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- To Build a value chain with the best members, by flexibly
incorporating management resources from outside the Group
if necessary.
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5) Construction of new business models
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(a) Real estate securitization related business
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- Office building investment funds
To achieve a leading role in establishing the real estate
investment market, we aim at scale expansion and listing
of the fund as soon as possible. We also aim to acquire
business opportunities of nonasset business, for
example transaction-related business of fund ownership
property, fund management, and property management, etc.
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- Seek possibilities of developing fund business
We will seek possibilities of real estate investment funding
for rental housing and real estate investment funding
that incorporates shopping malls, hotels, etc.
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(b) Housing-leasing business
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- To aim at Group-level information forwarding and grasping
of customer needs, we opened a rental condominium-leasing
web site: "AXIS VIEW," in response to the increase of
people with various needs.
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- The establishment of the fixed-period, house-leasing
law, will enable us to expand business by using the Group
companies' know-how and development power and product
planning know -how which have been cultivated through
sales of housing.
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- > Aim to receive orders of the total project, in respective
levels: development, construction, leasing, and property.
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- Introduce funds from the capital market by using the
securitization scheme, and to study a Japanese-edition
of residential REIT.
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(c) "Caring" business
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- Promote business related to "medical care, nursing-care,
and health," by integrating the know-how accumulated through
the pilot projects done so far, into an expert organization:
the "CARE DESIGN Business Planning Department". This department
was newly established this April , in order to respond
to the change in social structure which is moving toward
declining birth rate and an aging population.
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- Accelerate the formation of a nursing-care community,
through the use of "Care Design Plaza (Tamagawa Takashimaya),"
"CARE design," magazine, and the "CARE DESIGN NETWORK,"
which is a tie-up with NEC.
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- Accurately keep track of customer needs and construct
business models.
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(3) Basic attitude in implementing the entire Group's
strategy
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There are two basic attitudes common in implementation
of the entire Group's strategy.
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1) Coexistence with the environment
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We will state "coexistence with the environment" into
the mission of each product division which is also a part
of "Attitude of the&Mark"*4) which we stated in our Group
vision. We will emphasize this attitude in each level
of specific projects, such as planning residential properties
and office building operation systems.
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2) Usage of IT
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We will use IT (Information Technology)
in a strategic manner, to pursue "creation of added value,"
by sensitively responding to conversion of business models
using IT.
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(4) Establishment of an environment to accomplish the
Group Medium-Term Management Plan
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Toward establishing an environment to accomplish the
Group Medium-Term Management Plan, there are few challenges.
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1) Construction of an integrated risk management system
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In order to promote wide-ranging nonasset business,
the following issues must be achieved as soon as possible.
The establishment of compliance rules by which customers
can entrust their assets with a sense of security, ensure
information security accompanying information society,
and enrichment of assessment methods to conduct appropriate
risk return recognition and improve total returns.
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2) The optimal organization to conduct value creation
as a Group Seek and realize an optimal organization in
connection with the group management organization and
corporate governance from such viewpoints as "creation
of customer value" and "increase of stockholder value"
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This plan does not just set quantitative targets, but
determines the direction of management and to establish
a new steady growth base in the concerned three years
aiming at realization of a "new Mitsui Fudosan Group,
rich in growth possibilities and profitability, in the
21st century. This is based on the recognition that the
paradigm shift regarding real estate will further accelerate
in the coming millennium. We, both executives and staff,
as a whole, will make efforts to achieve this plan.
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(Note) The plans and prospects regarding future business
achievements, mentioned above, are what the manager judged
to be rational based on the economic state, accounting
standards/customs, etc., which are presently assumed,
and the actual achievements can vary due to various factors,
regarding which your understanding is requested.
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