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- 01:07:11.4 Thank you for the presentation.
My first question on the FY2017 forecasts, as shown on slide 42. Earlier, you highlighted this in your presentation but you are guiding for a ¥4.7 billion increase in the Eliminations & Corporate line. This is an amount that could more than offset the profits of some of your segments. On a historical basis, this amount is also quite high. Have you chosen to set aside some funds in a buffer? Can you provide more specifics on this? Does this include expenses of say around ¥3 billion that might not need to be incurred immediately? Anything color you can provide would be helpful.
- 01:07:56.4 (Ohue) This spend includes investments in core technologies that underpin our strategies in IAB, HCB and the four business domains. This is one large element of this line item. We are increasing R&D spend and R&D headcount.
Another element is related to business process changes for the headquarter functions. We will also be investing more in communication as we step up our efforts to enter into alliances. Earlier, we also discussed IAB’s need to invest in human resources, which will require some investment related to recruiting.
These are some of the things included in this line item.
- 01:08:52.0 Thank you.
My second question is about the medium-term management plan. On slide 36 you provided segment sales targets. Can you disclose your assumptions for IAB and HCB, such as expected growth in the underlying markets or how much of the growth will be ‘self-driven’?
- 01:09:23.0 This time around, we did not use underlying market growth rates as the basis for formulating our medium-term targets. Instead, our approach was to try to quantify the growth we could expect from our customer base, given the value we expect to add, or the number of software application packages we would be able to create.
For Healthcare, as I discussed earlier, we will be undertaking new initiatives, which would be incremental to our plan. For the three core businesses, targets are based on the combination of expected market growth and share growth.
Fundamentally, all of the target markets are growth markets, so it is more a question of how successful we are in capturing this growth, and on top of this, how much we can generate from new businesses.
- 01:10:15.2 I would like to ask one more question about the medium-term management plan. On slide 19 you talk about the four focus domains. Can you give me a rough image of the percentage of revenue you currently generate from these domains, and where you expect to be in four years’ time?
- 01:10:42.7 We don’t have data we can share with you at this point. However, as we show on slide 36, we aim to generate half of Omron’s overall sales in IAB. It is already our largest business but we expect to be very close to half by FY2020. To do this, we will prioritize the allocation of resources to IAB and we do expect to see strong growth.
- 01:11:14.5 Thank you.
- 01:11:16.8 We are getting close to the end of the allotted time. Given the time constraints, we will take questions from three more people, but may we ask you to limit yourself to one short question each, please?
Thank you.