Monthly Operations Summary FY2019 (Aug 2019)

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Convenience Store Business in Japan

Sales

(YOY)

Lawson, Inc. (Non-consolidated)
Existing Stores Sales 100.0%
Number of Customers 96.9%
Spending per Customer 103.2%
All Stores Sales 104.4%

*This chart shows the total sales of LAWSON, NATURAL LAWSON, and LAWSON STORE100 operated by Lawson, Inc. Sales of Lawson Sanin, Inc., Lawson Kochi, Inc., Lawson Minami-Kyushu, Inc., and Lawson Okinawa, Inc. are not included.
*Existing stores: Figures of tickets and gift card etc. are not included. 

Stores

（Number）

Lawson Group
Opening 71
Closure 55
Total Number of Stores 14721

*The number of stores in Lawson Group includes Lawson, Inc., Lawson Sanin, Inc., Lawson Kochi, Inc., Lawson Minami-Kyushu, Inc., and Lawson Okinawa, Inc.

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The sales result of Lawson, Inc. in August is as follows*1. Total sales at all stores in August amounted to 242,081 million yen, a 4.4% up year on year, and average daily sales per store (all stores) totaled 568 thousand yen*2. Existing-store sales (excluding ticket and gift card sales etc.) were flat year on year over the same period and the average number of customers per store fell 3.1% and the average customer spend rose 3.2% year on year.

Below is a breakdown of the existing-store sales performance by individual merchandise categories.

Noodle category sales were favorable due to increase in sales of cold noodle products.

Thanks to strong sales of original products such as a big hit Basque-style cheesecake "BASCHEE" including new “Premium BASCHEE, sales of dessert category increased dramatically year on year.

Bakery category sales increased year on year, mainly due to increase in sales of ready-to-eat bakery and a renewal of basic items.

Sales of chilled drink category and ice cream category increased year on year mainly due to favorable sales of our original products branded Uchi Café.

As a result of our continuous initiatives to expand product lineups, sales of daily delivered food and frozen food items increased year on year.

Cigarette sales accounted for 1.0% or less increase year on year of existing-store sales growth in August.

The Lawson Group operated 14,721 convenience stores in Japan at the end of August 2019, including 143 NATURAL LAWSON stores and 780 LAWSON STORE 100 stores.

Regarding LAWSON STORE 100, existing-store sales fell 1.1% year on year in August (customer numbers: -4.0%; customer spend: +3.0%).

The existing LAWSON stores' sales in Japan (LAWSON and NATURAL LAWSON)*1 in August were flat year on year.

Lawson is promoting "Snoopy Summer Campaign" until September 30, 2019 to help broaden its customer base.

From August 23, 2019, Lawson has started operational experiment of unmanned store during midnight as one of its labor shortage initiatives, at a LAWSON store in the City of Yokohama.

Note 1: Lawson, Inc. sales include sales generated by LAWSON stores (excluding Lawson Okinawa, Inc., Lawson Minami-Kyusyu, Inc., Lawson Kochi, Inc., and Lawson Sanin, Inc.), NATURAL LAWSON stores, and LAWSON STORE100 stores. The LAWSON operation in Japan consists of sales generated by LAWSON, Inc. excluding sales of LAWSON STORE100 stores.
Note 2: Total sales at all stores include figures of tickets and gift card etc. These sales differ from “Net sales of convenience stores” in our other disclosed documents.

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