Thank you very much. This is Ogawa speaking. Out of your all the schedule, thank you for attending our meeting today. Now I would like to begin the full year earnings call today. To begin with, as a Timee, Inc., the stock prices have been going down a little bit. I assume our shareholders who already have our shares, maybe we have not been completely, fully meet your expectations. Among that, today, I would like to explain the recent movement. We are trying to move gradually to the offense mode. That will be our key focus today. Beginning, I would like to explain the efforts we are making as a company total, and then Mr. Yagi will cover more financial figures. As this slide is showing, moving on from defense mode to offense mode.
The preparation period as a company, we have been working on developing new business and a lot of the new challenges. Even among the Spot Work, although we have a lot of competitors, we are also been working on developing the competitive advantages against them. Having both existing business pillar and the new business pillars. Now we started having more consolidated foundations. Now we slowly would like to move on to more offense phase as a company, evolving more. Today we would like to cover this part. Moving on to the next page. Our sales organization, we have about over 800 people, sales representative nationwide from Hokkaido to Okinawa. Its industry vertical, the Spot Work penetration, also their understanding of Spot Work. Also, what would they like to achieve through Spot Work? Their motivation is always different depending on the industry.
We would like to face more hands-on-hand, direct to each industry, and trying to create the members who are capable of that. Logistic, retail, food, social care, we are trying to provide more tailored organizational structures to cater these needs demand different from each industry. For the team covering the large client, we are trying to target the companies with the potential to generate JPY 100 million monthly in net sales. Those are basically the team dedicated for the large accounts. Then for the mid-size companies, we provide a dedicated separate team trying to consolidate our sales process, having maybe 10, 20, 30 companies for each sales representative, creating more touch point. For the small company accounts, we have been actually getting a very fruitful result from the utilization of the AIs.
The structure for the small account never existed before, but now it is there. We have established it. Dedicating a separate organizational structure for utilizing the AI and trying to increase the number of the touch point with the clients. Looking at the YoY productivity through the AI utilization, it has doubled. Trying to dedicate each large account, mid-size account, then the small accounts, trying to deep dive, deepen the relationship more to each industry, that will be our further room to grow. Going to the next slide. What did we do exactly for the AI utilization for the smaller accounts? Precisely speaking, it is a little bit difficult to provide a tailored sales action one- by- one. For Timee, we already have more than 0.2 million companies utilizing our service.
We have more and more knowledge about what kind of job posting should be there, how the company should be utilizing it, the name of the companies, all the information for the job listings, creating a draft of the job listing. We have a lot of the foundation like this. Also we do have the knowledge about the manual creation that could be also achieved by the AI utilization. This can be leveraged by the small accounts as well. Proposal to the new task the companies can utilize at Timee. For example, the case with the supermarket, a lot of the restocking of the items and the cashier for the checkout operation, and many different places, even the supermarket, they're utilizing the fish segment. The companies that are similar to your business, you can also utilize the Timee for this different new task.
It's what we're suggesting. Trying to increase the unit price we can generate from each account utilizing the AI and increasing the number of job posting is our motivation for this approach. We think utilizing these methodologies, we still have a lot more room to grow among the Spot Work business. We would like to expand further by this approach to small to medium companies as well. Talking about the Timee proprietary data. The Timee workers they receive the ratings, whether it was good or bad, and also where did we work. A lot of different data has been accumulated in the Timee's. Of course, the perfect attendance, the behavior, not coming late, these are also accumulated as a record. Because of this, we can create Timee Resume. This is just an example of having Mr. Yagi.
He has worked 18x so far through Timee, also evaluated as a good worker. Looking at this review, the people would assume that he's pretty reliable. It's like providing a reference check. Resume itself, we can utilize that, not to just to provide a Spot Work business, but also, the new graduate hires, mid-career hires, and long-term part-timing employee hiring as well, evolving into the total HR platform. Then among this, we have been working on evolving our products. Since the beginning of our business, this tab menu, we haven't changed it, but right now we are releasing the new tab menu, called the invites. This invites tab, workers, by working through Timee, they can accumulate, earn more trust. Based on that trust, they would receive the offers.
To explain, more simply like a BizReach for example, they would start receiving the offer such as, "Would you like to work for our company?" Not just the working on the Spot Work, but Timee would like to support the workers who are working very well, diligently to get other alternative offers through our platform. At this moment, we also have a new project underway. One is a Timee Career Plus. This is basically recruitment, the assistant for the mid-careers. One having one employee introduced, it could be JPY 0.8 as a recruitment fee and then placing them as a full-time employee. YoY growth, it's already achieving 3.5x , very solidly, solid launching already. Could be the bank, could be a good contributor to the net sales.
Hopefully, we are also working on the long-term part-time employment, the support, in order to turn around the YoY growth of the food industry. We are releasing already in the summer of this fiscal year, and this has been receiving a very good reaction, and we will cover this part later. Timee Career Plus, this is a recruitment support for the mid-career hires. It might look like the labor-intensive industry, but we're providing these three models. The first is having our career advisor model. This career advisor will be guiding the entire process. We're introducing them to job openings to accepting the job offer. The new challenge for us is the right hand, the direct recruiting platform. Everything is concluded in application.
The worker would apply to the company's job openings, then they would finish the entire process up to accepting the job offer. This is just a trial, the basis, but we have already placed a couple of tens, twenties people already placed and accepted the job offers through this. In addition to combining these together with the Invites tab, we are able to streamline more automated matching, using these new support models and the schemes. Hope you can count on us for the achievement of this. Of course, maybe some workers might be a little afraid to do everything on their own. That's why we provide the hybrid system. Trying to push a little forward by the career advisor, the worker will be feeling more comfortable to accept the job offer.
Trying to increase the productivity, double, triple, compared to the normal career advisor, the operation. Hopefully, combination of these three will be able to achieve further success in our recruitment business. What we're doing here is the using the Timee, trying to offer more. We would like to offer more opportunities to work. If you work harder, diligently, good and bad ratings, the perfect attendance, punctuality, depending on that, we can gain the trust, earn the trust, where you can potentially receive more offers from the companies to work more. We're trying to provide more working opportunities to the workers who originally couldn't find these opportunities. The age of the AI, the robotics, the ways of working, we would have more and more active discussions. Among that Timee, 99% of the job posted in our platform is a blue-collar job.
We are facing directly to labor-intensive industry. This is our unique point, a unique business. We are trying to utilize this core strength, in order to contribute more to the net sales in both existing business and also the new business. This is the end of my explanation. I moved on to Mr. Yagi.
This is Yagi speaking, I would like to explain about the irregular six months period of the fiscal year ending April 2026. This is the sixth month fiscal year ending April 2026. This is a summary of the full year results, net sales, and also the operating profit, and also the profit, starting with the net sales. Compared to the forecast, we actually exceeded the upper range limit. It was where our performances were very positive. Talking about the operating profit, this is also, we landed at JPY 3.8 billion, it also landed within the range. Talking about the operating profit margin, in the comparison to the last fiscal year, it was a little bit down, but this is due to the strategic investments we made.
Every quarter we explain about this, but in order to further grow the top line, we are still at the phase of the preparation period, which also needs strategic investments. This is the reason why we see the profit margin like this. It still landed within the forecasted range, and this is still our original intention. Talking about the profit of this full year, it went a little below the range. This is due to the consolidation of the need of a South Korean company, which we invested last year. We recorded the impairment loss, which is JPY 0.35 billion. That's why the profit went below the forecast, but due to this special factor. The main part, core business, has been very stable.
We're showing the trend of the net sales and the operating profits, due to the change in the fiscal year, which will switch from October to April. This year will be six months, which is irregular. We're here trying to show the comparison of the 12 consecutive months so you can see more easily to the last 12 months results. Right now, we're ending in April 2026, but here we're showing the 12 months starting from May 2025 to April this year. JPY 38.8 billion as the net sales, operating profits JPY 7.29 billion, grew by 25.9% year-over-year. Both net sales and operating profit are still sustaining a very great achievement growth. Talking about the operating profit margin, repeated just before, we still made a strategic investment.
We still landed at the line we originally expected. Talking about the costs, just like every quarter, we're explaining here in this slide. Strategic investment, especially in the marketing. As you can see in the chart on the left side, as you can see, the worker marketing highlighted in the yellow part. Q2 , the comparison with Q2 of the last year, you can see it grew by several points. This is due to the field manager initiative, which is explained on the right hand of this chart.
In order to provide more job openings from the location which had the field manager, we needed to do more worker marketing to support more job openings. Basically the expansion among the social care, other industries also, including this worker marketing, which was active. The cost of sales grew by year-over-year. This is a result of the consolidation of the Timee Solutions, formerly Schema works. This is the by-service breakdown of this full year, six months period of this fiscal year ending April 2026. Several of the KPIs by each industry I would like to show here. Overall, Q1 was very positive, after making the upward revision. We still exceeded the upper range of the revised upward revision. The momentum is very strong, especially the logistics, retail, they are driving the overall performance.
Especially the growth year-over-year is accelerating quarter-over-quarter. The latest situation, looking at that, we have a good confidence that this momentum would continue this year as well. This past one or two years, we have always seen the challenges in the food industry. We would like to eventually allow them to escape from the negative growth. We still have the negative growth, but the decline, the negative margin has been narrowing. Right now it's standing at -1.5% growth year-over-year. The social care is still maintaining growth. The year-over-year growth, we are able to see the turnover in the Q1 then we also see the acceleration of this year-over-year growth in Q2 . Our mission is to keep the growth of the net sales.
We're showing the results achieved along with the intention. The total transaction volume and the number of active accounts, the transaction volume per active account are shown here. Not really a huge difference in the trend, but maybe one point I would like to mention is the transaction volume per active accounts. You see it's going positive right now, turned positive. The transaction volume per active accounts has been declining, but we were able to turn it to 6.2%+ . This was also supported by the number of the active accounts and also the unit price from each account. That's why it's showing the very good contribution growth due to these two factors. Especially the logistic sector, the total transaction volume per active account was declining, but it also turned positive as well.
This is due to the field manager initiative, focusing on the major enterprise account that has a bigger potential of generating net sales. We've been allocating our sales resources to these enterprise accounts in the logistic accounts, and that's why we saw the improvement of the transaction volume per active accounts. Additionally, we have been working on onboarding reduction projects, which is the field manager initiative. In addition to that, we also by taking these initiatives, I would like to further accelerate the deepening relationship with the companies. For the Smart Group features, we have this new product. This is a new product that we developed, so I'd like to explain this in brief. This is for the favorite workers group. In the past, the companies had to do this manually. However, with the product development capability, we're able to have this automatically visualized.
For the requested workers, automatically the group will be created and the job offers will be made against that group. By this, the burden for the onboarding will be reduced. On top of that, for the spot workers, the first-timer may come and the people with less experience will come, and those bottlenecks will be largely changed. Even in Spot Work, without any burden and also with good experience, we will have these people coming to the offer in a repeated manner. Those will be changing going forward, and that's the explanation of this slide. Moving on to the retail industry. It's also very brisk. From the past, the transaction volume per AA has been positive year- on-year , but for this quarter as well, less than 8% of growth.
The AS as well as the transaction volume per AA has been growing, and that is what we have achieved so far. Continually for the sub-industries, drugstore is doing well. In the past, convenience stores, supermarkets, those were the target, but now the sub-industries has been expanded, and we are now able to have those contributing to our sales. Followed by that, we have the social care industry. We are working to expand this market as well. The active accounts are the growth drivers, so about 2x of growth are what we have achieved. For this, the bottleneck for the fill rate is still existing, but the product development is progressing. For the social care industry, we are working on the sales activity as well as the workers expansion, as well as the work environment improvement.
In all areas, we are putting our resources to try to achieve the high growth. For the social care industry, I would like to mention one news. From the past, as we have disclosed, this time with Benesse Careers, we have this strategic business alliance that we announced. For the details, as you can see on this slide, both companies have their own assets, and also by putting our know-hows in the social care industry, the Spot Work is something can be used and accelerated going forward. That is where we put the resources together to try to exploit this market further. For the detail alliance between the two companies, a Timee introduction support will be made, and implementation support will be made. For the vertical angle, this is the social care area where there is a long history by Benesse Careers.
We like to use those know-hows and have the implementation support. Plus, for the workers, we will support the certification and skill development, and also the e-learning service by Benesse will be provided, and that is how we like to provide these services for the workers. We are exploiting today, and we would like to further accelerate this approach going forward. Lastly, for the food industry, as mentioned before, the Yo Y minus negative trend is still continuing.
However, mostly we are coming close to breakeven, and we are having that improvement today. For this, there has been a negative trend for one year, we are picking out. The cost curbing in the food industry is one of the factors why there is a food industry negative performance. Not the Timee cost, but by facing these management and also utilizing the human resource, we like to achieve a sales growth as well as the business growth. We think it is going to be a business tool by providing solution proposals to customers. We think Timee can utilize more, and that is how we like to drastically change people's mindset against Timee, and that is happening today. Together with this, we think the food industry can be improved.
Next is the KPI, which is the fill rate. Without large issue, we are able to maintain at a high level. On a Year-on-Year basis, there is about one percentage point of deterioration on appearance. For Q2, because it is off-season, normally Q2 is where we have a high fill rate. The number of job openings have exceeded our forecast, which is a good news. With that exceeding, we are seeing some decline in the fill rate. We are able to maintain a high fill rate, as mentioned, so there is no particular issue from our viewpoint. As mentioned before, the long-term part-time hiring support plans, as Ogawa-san would like to touch upon that in detail. Thank you.
For this, the food industry is working steadily, and this plan is also making a good progress at this moment. We like you to look at the client comments, and that is why we have this slide prepared for you. In summer this year, including pricing, we would like to have official release of this product or the plans. Already, more than 100 stores are utilizing this plan at this moment. Like you can see in this slide, for the hiring support plans, long-term plans, we are able to have many people hiring, increasing the number of hires. Looking at the second from the bottom, the part-time was not gathered in the company before, but once there is this complaint from the field, they are not using the ads.
With the HR department, we discussed, and the price for hiring was increasing. Even though you recruit, there are only one or two people who will come to the offer. When we offered this long-term part-time hiring support plan, they were really happy using this plan because they were able to accelerate the hiring in that store. Timee, as a company, we are exactly more than 30 million workers that is throughout the nation, and we have this network, which is very strong. Once again, we are able to reiterate that. Also not only the Spot Work, but also in the recruitment and also the job dispatching and also recruitment in various areas, we would like to expand further. Why in the difficult store to hire people, the job boards cannot hire people, but Timee can?
For the job boards, the popular job openings attract more people, or the hourly wage is what people select. For Timee, it is a first time first served, and the people who have worked there before in the past, their word of mouth left as a record. Therefore, not only the hourly wage, we can make these decisions on this job. In fact, looking at the work and then working there, and people want to work in these locations after that, there is a low churn. There is no mismatch, and that is also one thing that we are able to be pleased because of such low churn. In Timee, we are focusing on existing business, while this data asset is what we are trying to utilize to create various businesses. The Stage-Gate system is what we are introducing.
This is a tier 3, tier 2, tier 1. We have the different stage gates. By looking at this, tier 3 is where one person is creating a business, AI is utilized while business is created by one person, then finding the new customer, then doing the verifying the value. The verification is done, then if that is to be expanded or there is a potential for expansion, then they will be moved up to tier 2. With tier 2, they can recruit people, they will be budgeted, and they can hire people. This has been only less than one year since we introduced, but already many tier 3 are existing. Already there are progress to tier 2, as mentioned before, for the mid-career, Career+, and also the long-term career plan and also the contracting outsourcing. These are areas where we are progressing today.
Like this way, the Stage-Gate system is being managed, and the people money is allocated. We like to make sure that we go, and we think that is important for the governance as a company or as a business. Not only existing business but also a new business, we would like to step on the full accel going forward.
I would like to explain about this slide. This time, as explained earlier in the material, we mentioned about fintech, doing this financial service in Timee, and that's what we have disclosed so far. This time around, with NTT DOCOMO and SBI Sumishin Net Bank, we're able to have this business alliance and have an MOU signed for this business alliance in the financial sector.
For the Timee's workers, for various people, we like to have these services provided, and that's how we like to have more full-scale considerations going forward. As mentioned before, Timee platform is where there is trust data accumulated, and this trust data is where we can utilize in the financial sector as well, and that is the intention. Along with this, in the next month, in July, the financial related solution is to be done mainly. We'll be creating Timee Financial going forward. Briefly, I would like to explain the background of this financial sector, financial business. Timee is doing Spot Work mainly and has been expanding the business, and the workers have been more than 14 million registered workers and also 460,000 registered clients today. On a daily basis, we're expanding these numbers.
In that situation, while doing a lot of businesses, the users, especially the workers, receive same-day pay, and these needs are really high. For the short term, there is financial needs, and that's one thing we have reviewed again. Also for the workers, the concern, anxieties they might have for the future, or they want to have a skill increase, and they want to increase their skill level. They want to set that and make that challenge. Because of the financial limitations, they're not able to do that. Those are the main examples we have seen. In that situation, as Timee, we're wondering what we can provide as a service. As mentioned before, for Timee as you can see in this slide, we have been able to accumulate over 55 million records of trust data.
On the Timee platform, on an annual basis, more than JPY 13 million GMV exists. We have that touchpoint, a payment touchpoint. A new financial service, if we are able to create that, then we think that those restrictions or anxieties can be relieved for the people who cannot step forward and make a challenge. We can provide these opportunities, and also we can provide a new lifestyle or life opportunities for these people, and that's why we think we have to go ahead providing this financial service. On the other hand, whether Timee can do this all alone. As mentioned, we have these data as Timee, but when it comes to financial area, we don't have a solid foundation, or we don't have necessarily those foundations today. When it comes to the touchpoint, outside of the working environment, we don't have those touchpoints.
That's why with NTT DOCOMO and also the SBI Sumishin Net Bank, as shown on the right-hand side, as the lifestyle infrastructure, we have these services. For the touchpoint, we have the payment and also the point payment scheme and also the advanced financial solutions, including BaaS, are provided. Being together, we think we can provide and make this a service provided to customers or users. That's why we came to this MOU. On the short term, we don't think there'll be outcome right away. However, in the mid to long term, we'd like to make this a second tier for our company, and that's how we'd like to expand this business going forward. Lastly, I would like to move on to the forecast for the fiscal year ending April 2027, mainly around the figures.
Fiscal year 2027, April 2027, these are the forecasts we have. For this time, the H1 year-over-year, we have these numbers in place. For the consolidation, these are on a full year basis. You can see the range, JPY 47.6 billion- JPY 48.8 billion. For the operating profit, JPY 8.8 billion- JPY 9.7 billion. These are the range we have for the forecast. The majority of this is Spot Work. I would like to explain the detailed scenario for Spot Work. Regarding Spot Work, the net sales forecast or the idea behind the forecast is shown with the H1 and H2 separated. As a company, the will of our company is that we like to make sure that we can maintain the growth rate and also turn around, and that's the basic mindset.
As you can see on the left-hand side, the growth rate is to be maintained, and for H2 , we will have some improvements. The gray area is showing, but on a year-on-year basis, the sales will be growing. As you can see, the H1 , H2 will have an increase of this growth rate, and that is what we have factored in this guidance. In detail, what kind of scenarios do we have? As you can see on the right-hand side, basically on a year-on-year basis, the logistics and retail is where we have growth, and that's the driver. Without a large deterioration, we'll be having a stable growth, and that's the idea. Especially for the H2. Social care, as mentioned, the Benesse Careers strategic alliance will be going forward and also the other areas.
We are expecting this recovery in H2 . For the upper limit and lower limit, for the upper limit, basically the large clients will be where we'll be further expanding the business and deepening relationships. For the retail and food, we'll be having more Spot Work expansion going forward, that's the factor that we have included. For the lower scenario, it's not only limited to Timee, but it's a pessimistic scenario based on the Middle East situation. A strongest consumer sentiment, also there is perhaps a logistic restriction, that will lead to decline in job openings. That's the lower scenario. The way of looking at the operating expense forecast, basically for the H1 , the profit margin is not so high, but in the H2 , towards H2 , the profit will be largely improving.
For the growth of the profit margin, in H2, it's quite high growth rate we're expecting. On a full year basis, growth rate will be keeping a high level, especially for the H1 . The left-hand side, the bottom, you can see active strategic investments. The field manager initiative and the social care industry is where we're going to continually invest. For this, as we make this investment, we think we can have the numbers follow. Because of that, we are going to make a full investment in these areas. For the industry-wide strategy, we won't explain this again, for logistics and retail, basically we have a good momentum. The major clients, large clients, is where we like to deepen relationship. For each of the industry, we like to provide solutions.
For the food, especially for the food, this summer, the long-term part-time hiring support plans will be introduced in full swing. That's how we like to expand more. For the social care, as explained, we'll be improving the fill rate. Also, as explained with Benesse Careers, we would like to have alliance and make sure that we have a speedy approach to expand the social care industry. Outside of the Spot Work, the Timee Career Plus and Timee Solutions are shown on this page. For this as well, we are seeing a new business launch. As Ogawa mentioned before, we have direct recruiting where we'll be focusing our resources, we would like to make sure sales are growing. For Timee Solutions, we have a good synergy.
The contracting business will expand more and more, the top line sales will have a high growth. For the expenditure, we'll also work with a diligent approach to make sure that top-line growth will be made. That's the first approach we are going to prioritize. Therefore, we will still have a loss booked for this fiscal year. Lastly, for the Spot Work, a non-Spot Work fees, we have the all net sales other than Spot Work fees as disclosed. We have shown on this slide, in the past the Spot Work fee and others included the field managers' dispatching fees, as well as the long-term part-time hiring support plans.
However, sales are becoming larger today. We like to make sure that non-Spot Work is where we have a number, for the Spot Work, we'll have just the Spot Work fee. That's how we have changed. That's all for my presentation. That was the actual business performance and also the strategy as well as FY 2027, April 2027 forecast. That's all for me.
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Maybe one thing, maybe a little small detail, talking about the social care sector, especially the total transaction volume. We think it's still the launching, the timing. I think, the shifts within the transaction volume is also probably big in the margin. It seems like this is getting better compared to the Q1. This may be the bottom was around JPY 81,000 per account at the Q1 timing. Are you expecting the transaction volume per account to grow? What do you think it does when you look at this business model?
Thank you very much for your question. The transaction volume per active account in the social care sector. About this part, originally, we were focusing on the enterprise accounts. That's why this was expanding. That was intentional. As you said, now we're expanding to other sizes of the accounts, including the small to medium companies. We're expanding our sales actions. Using the BPR, the sales action, we are utilizing that to provide a matching to the qualified workers and also something beyond the qualified worker matching. Some, the tasks that don't require qualified workers, such as general cleaning. We're expanding the scope of the jobs available for this social care industry. We're trying to break down further to try to increase the unit price increase in this sector.
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This is Arai from Morgan Stanley . A couple of questions. Number one, on page 31, the plan you have shown. For the last fiscal year, for the Q1 and Q2 , the growth rate increased. However, in the upper scenario, considering this growth, I think the upper scenario is slightly conservative. Is there any risk that you're factoring in the upper scenarios? That's my question.
I'd like to explain this from Yagi. Yes. Concerning the current trend, we think we might go higher than this. That might be our viewpoint. However, various situations in the bottom lower scenario, we talked about the Middle East, but also in the macro environment, there are a lot of uncertainties. If we have too much upper scenarios, higher upper scenarios, then in the end, we might have a lower number in the end. That's not even good. We have a certain visibility, but we like to make sure we have a buffer, and that's put in the range, in the upper scenario. For H2 , as you can see, there is a buffer at the bottom.
For the initiative we are taking today, we think those will come to fruition. Once that happens, we have possibility, upside possibility. Still there are uncertainties. That's why we have a range, and that's why we have the lower range set as well. For the increase or the growth rate, as you can see, at JPY 3.7 billion to JPY 4.2 billion, there's an increase of the growth rate. A certain amount is the baseline growth rate we are also expecting. Please also keep that in mind.
Thank you very much. My second question, the long-term part-time support. I think you're feeling a good reaction from customers today, the image is there is a possibility that Spot Work will shift to the part-time, and that might lead to a drop in sales. We think it might be happening. At this moment, what is your view for this situation?
Well, that's a very important point. Exactly. When we look at this business and created this business, we also look at the existing Spot Work business that might have a drop in revenue. We did monitoring in all aspects and on a YoY basis, on a monthly basis. We looked if the Spot Work offers will be going down or not. As a result, which was surprising to us, we had an increase in their job offers. Those are the results we have also seen. In total, there is no change. Of course, the size is changing, but there's a possibility it might change going forward with the size. It's not changing at this moment.
The reason why is if you sign this plan, the people who are looking for these part-timers will be matched automatically. For the stores on the monthly basis, maybe the people who have been using 5x or 6x a month, now they're using this 10x or more. Because they're using this plan, they want to hire more people, and that's the direction they're given from HR. HR has the budget in most companies, and the budget that they spent for the job boards are being allocated, reallocated to Timee. Separate from Timee budget that they have set initially, they are now increasing these people using Timee.
In other stores, the people are hired, but those people also churn or leave. In the retail or the restaurant or food industry, for example, the peak time is when they want to use Timee. They don't want to have a fixed cost increase. In the end, like Friday, Saturday, these are the add-on sales for these customers.
Thank you very much. Just addition to this long-term part-time hiring support plans, the previous explanation, and also this time in this briefing, I think you feel a good reaction. On the other hand, I think the release official this summer this year, you have a good amount of time for preparation. Is there any area that you want to try to be more careful? You want to do more experiment? Any reason? Because I think you can release this earlier, but is there any reason why you're not pulling forward or you're still having this released in summer?
The product, how to really refine the product is where we are spending more time today to be more easier. In the past, Timee search or job hiring is for any people without experience. More than 90%, there was the fill rate. Today, for this, these are for the long-term part-time who have intention to work over long time, that means that there's a difference in the fill rate. Therefore, it's not really 60%, 70%, but maybe 75%. How to increase that to 80%, 85%, and also to 90% level as in the past? These are things we are looking and focusing on today. That's why once we are able to fine-tune that, we would like to expand this further, and that's what we're discussing.
In the Kanto area, Tokyo area mainly, we are doing the POC of this service today. When it comes to full scale release, 200,000 companies are entirely where we are going to expand to, the area will be expanded. We like to create the algorithm good in Tokyo, we have a good reaction today. Also the summer release is already finalized. We have a good visibility on releasing this product in summer.
Yes, thank you very much for that. That's all for me.
Thank you very much for the question. Does anybody else have any questions? Are we good? Does anybody else have any questions? Everybody good? Oh, thank you, Mr. Kimura.
Thank you very much. Kimura from Okasan Securities speaking. I have maybe two question, a little bit qualitative part. First part is just confirming long-term part-time hiring support plan. This is for the food and retail industry. Would you think this would have an impact on this fiscal year or the next fiscal year, the net sales trend in these two verticals? Is it affected on the guidance? What do you think?
Let me answer from my side. As a basic scenario, the long-term hiring support plan, it is reflected to the guidance partially, especially in the net sales. On the other hand, because the full-scale release will be the summer onward, the initial momentum, if it goes really positively in the momentum wise, in the initial timing, it would be maybe achieving on the higher side compared to the forecast. On the consolidation pace, it's partially reflected, but depending on the speed and also the demand of the customers, we might have the potentially upside, the opportunity coming from this.
At the same time, is it going to be the really large impact on the net sales? In that case, we don't really think so because the majority of our business is still the Spot Work. The Spot Work is the main, and then maybe some upside, the plus or minus, and depending on the impact of this, might be reflected as a general driver, as a guidance.
Second point is related to the alliance for the financial related topics. Maybe could you give us a little more hints about the service that you would like to achieve? As a base, maybe the workers, the working history records, and also their credit scores, would you like to, the bill, like maybe the loan on top of that? Or maybe utilizing the worker marketing campaign, utilizing the data point of NTT DOCOMO, trying to achieve better worker marketing efficiency. Do you have any rough image on what would you like to achieve with this initiative or the alliance? Thank you very much.
At this moment, we don't really have anything limited. This is the only thing we're doing. That's not really our case. Maybe just initial response to your questions. We do have a lot of the possibilities, including what you just pointed out. As a company total, we would like to utilize our trust in the data. This is the most valuable data we have. This is something unique to Timee, and this is probably something that only Timee can achieve. We can provide more edgy solutions, as a business and trying to utilize this, leverage this as a competitive advantage. That's our intention. The resource allocation, we would like to allocate to this initiative.
For the financial sector, it will be more like a base solution. After that, we can possibly expand to the banking, and the other payment or settlement solution, to more various functionalities. Banking as a foundation, we are utilizing the partnership with NTT Docomo, SBI Sumishin Net Bank, trying to expand further.
Thank you very much. In the end, what are you expecting about the timeline this will be the actual business?
Yes. Maybe this is a little bit related to the license thing as well, and this still requires a certain launching. This is not something the short term, the future, like the next quarter. I think this will be a little long span, the project that we need to work on, including the schedule. We would like to firmly work through this in maybe the next upcoming quarters.
Thank you very much.
Thank you. Are there any other questions? If there's no additional question, that's all for this financial results briefing for the fiscal year ended April 2026. Thank you so much for your participation today. Thank you very much