On yesterday's board meeting of kakaku.com, Inc., we agreed to sign a letter of understanding to acquire 70% issued stock of eiga.com (unlisted) that has engaged in movie-related web contents since 1998. (Actual acquirement is planned to be April 1st, 2007)
By subsidizing this company, I do believe kakaku.com, Inc. would make a very important step to penetrate into entertainment business for which we ourselves did not have human or other required expertise that eiga.com has. On the other hand, we are expecting that we can make use of our own assets on Internet community such as blog services or BBS to supplement eiga.com's already-superb contents.
Furthermore, here in Japan, we are now experiencing that Japan-made movies are exceeding overseas-made movies in market size. To cover such users' expanding demand, I think our affluent human and technology resources of web business are very useful and eiga.com agreed on that idea.
At any rate, we have to go through due diligence process before reaching the final agreement that I guess would be around end of March. Thus, until then, be kindly requested to allow me to think I should confine myself to disclosing information included in the news release (sorry, Japnese only).
However, let me announce this deal surely would augment our already-lucrative business model and such result would be realized even in the next fiscal year.
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