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Review of Operations > Information & Communication Business
Fiscal 2012 Business Results and Activities
Sales increased by 9.5% as a result of expansion of the mobile handset sales
network and buoyant sales of smartphones.
Operating income was nearly flat year on year, rising 0.7%, as a result of
factors including the impact on goodwill of making ITX Corporation a wholly
owned subsidiary through a share exchange in March 2011.
Future Business Development
To secure stable profits, ITX Corporation will expand its mobile handset sales
network by forging partnerships with small and medium-sized local sales
agents, among other measures.
Sales networks and markets for smartphones continue to expand, and
ITX Corporation will strengthen its selling capabilities by implementing
measures to improve the quality of operations, such as waiting on customers.
In businesses other than mobile handset sales, the company will
strengthen its fixed communication lines business and ICT solutions business.
INFORMATION &
COMMUNICATION
BUSINESS
Shipments of Mobile Handsets in Japan
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
(Forecast)
2013
(Forecast)
2014
(Forecast)
2015
(Forecast)
2016
(Forecast)
(FY)
(10,000 units) （%）
5,000
4,000
3,000
2,000
1,000
0
100
80
60
40
20
0
Smartphones
Feature phones
Smartphone ratio
Information compiled by MM Research Institute, Ltd.
Further robust growth in the smartphone market can be expected.
Consolidated Net Sales
¥229.4
billion
Consolidated Operating Income
¥5.3
billion
Note: Olympus resolved to transfer its Information & Communication Business
to Japan Industrial Partners, Inc., on August 24, 2012. The transfer will
be carried out on September 28, 2012.
Consolidated subsidiary ITX Corporation engages in information and communication
Consolidated subsidiary ITX Corporation engages in information and communication
services businesses, with a telecommunications service business as its principal
services businesses, with a telecommunications service business as its principal
business. It engages in sales of mobile handsets, its mainstay business, through a
business. It engages in sales of mobile handsets, its mainstay business, through a
nationwide network of stores for all mobile phone carriers, and sales are increasing
nationwide network of stores for all mobile phone carriers, and sales are increasing
in tandem with the rapid growth of the smartphone market.
in tandem with the rapid growth of the smartphone market.
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