Fiscal Year of FY2021

(Jan. to Dec. 2021)

MonotaRO Co., Ltd.

www.monotaro.com

Business Overview, Features, and Differentiation Strategies

  • Main business
    • Mail-ordersales of indirect materials for factories, construction work, and automobile maintenance to businesses via Internet, etc. Number of product lineupOver 18 mil. SKU including 610 thou. SKU available for same-day shipment and 497 thou. SKU in stock.
  • Features of Products for Sale
    • Variety of products, convenience is more important than price for customers.
  • Number of employees (consolidated, as of Dec. 31, 2021)

Regular employee

Part-time and

Total

temporary employee

Head Ofiice, etc. (MonotaRO JPN)

820

(463)

400

(366)

1,220

(829)

Distribution Center (MonotaRO JPN)

174

(125)

1,514

(1,431)

1,688

(1,556)

Total (MonotaRO JPN)

994

(588)

1,914

(1,797)

2,908

(2,385)

  • Main competitors
    • Door-to-doortool dealers, hardware stores, auto parts dealers, Internet shopping sites, etc.
  • Main customer base
    • Manufacturing, construction/engineering, automobile maintenance, etc. (mainly small and medium-sized companies are customers)
  • Market size
    • 5 to 10 trillion JPY
  • Business Strategy
    • Differentiating by wide range of products and high searchability by utilizing Internet to achieve economies of scale.
    • Acquiring and retaining customers through marketing analysis of accumulated order and customer databases.
    • Achieving high productivity by doing much of the work in-house from software development to content creation.

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2021 Jan. to Dec.

(Non-consol.) Financial Result Overview

(Non-consol.) FY2021 Financial Result P/L Outline 1/3

2020

2021

2021

Result

Plan

Result

Amount

Ratio

Amount

Ratio

Amount

Ratio

YonY

vs

(million JPY)

to Sales

(million JPY)

to Sales

(million JPY)

to Sales

Plan

Sales

151,798

186,759

182,472

+20.2%

2.3%

Large Corp.

25,179

16.6%

34,680

18.6%

35,981

19.7%

+42.9%

+3.7%

Gross Profit

43,475

28.6%

53,852

28.8%

52,527

28.8%

+20.8%

2.5%

SG&A Exp.

23,325

15.4%

28,810

15.4%

27,993

15.3%

+20.0%

2.8%

Operating

20,149

13.3%

25,041

13.4%

24,533

13.4%

+21.8%

2.0%

Income

Current

20,194

13.3%

25,022

13.4%

24,647

13.5%

+22.0%

1.5%

Income

Net Income

13,139

8.7%

17,365

9.3%

17,701

9.7%

+34.7%

+1.9%

(Tax Rate)

(30.6%)

(30.6%)

(28.1%)

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(Non-consol.) FY2021 Financial Result P/L Outline 2/3 vs. Last Year

2020 Result (A)

2021 Result (B)

Amount

Sales

Amount

Sales

Difference (B-A)

(mil.JPY)

Ratio

(mil.JPY)

Ratio

Amount

+30,674

Sales of both monotaro.com and Large Corp. Business grew

(mil.JPY)

due to increases in order size and customer number. (+1.27M

Sales

151,798

182,472

YonY

+20.2%

accounts, 6.77M accounts as of Dec,2021).

Large Corp. Business maintained high growth (+42.9%),

Sales Ratio

despite rebound from 2020's deceleration of demand caused

by COVID-19.

Amount

+9,052

Product GP ratio decreased (0.3pt.: sales share of

(mil.JPY)

PB/imported product decreased, GP% decrease due to price

Gross Profit

43,475

28.6%

52,527

28.8%

YonY

+20.8%

changes of COVD-19 products, etc.).

Royalty income increased.

Sales Ratio

+0.2%

Delivery Cost ratio improved (+0.2pt.: Due to increase in sales

per order and to decrease in cash on delivery proportion ).

Amount

Labor cost ratio decreased (0.2pt.:Disaster compensation

+4,668

paid in 2020)

(mil.JPY)

Facility Rent Expense ratio decreased (0.1pt.: due to

decrease in warehouse rent for usage of backyard as Ibaraki

Chuo SC launched).

Advertisement cost ratio decreased (0.1pt.: due to decrease

SG&A Exp.

23,325 15.4%

27,993

15.3%

YonY

+20.0%

in catalogue production cost ratio)

Mailing Exp. ratio decreased (0.1pt.: due mainly to

decrease in catalog shipping cost ratio)

Depreciation Exp. ratio increased (+0.2pt.: due to Ibaraki

Chuo SC launched).

Sales Ratio

0.1%

Logistic site launch and Maintenance Cost ratio increased

(+0.2pt.: Ibaraki Chuo SC operation preparation costs, etc.).

System Usage Cost ratio increased (+0.1pt.: increase in

usage of cloud infrastructure).

Amount

+4,384

Operating

(mil.JPY)

Operating income amount and ratio improved due to increase

20,149 13.3%

24,533

13.4%

+21.8%

Income

YonY

in sales, improvement in GP%, and improvement in SG&A

expenses ratio.

Sales Ratio

+0.1%

Amount

+4,562

Op. Income ratio increased, and Extraordinary Loss incurred

(mil.JPY)

in 2020 (Impairment Loss for liquidating and plan revision of

+34.7%

Net Income

13,139

8.7%

17,701

9.7%

YonY

oversea subsidiaries) and tax reduction (625 mil. JPY) for

(Tax Rate)

(30.6%)

(28.1%)

Ibaraki Chuo SC investment. Net Income amount and ratio

Sales Ratio

+1.0%

therefore increased.

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