CEO Message
To all our valued stakeholders,
The business environment around us is evolving at an unpredictable pace, driven by advancements in AI, technology, and climate change. In time like these, we believe it is essential to define our long-term aspirations. With this in mind, we formulated our “2050 Vision.” Through a back-casting approach from this vision, we developed our “2035 Milestone” and our new Medium-Term Management Plan.
Our 2050 Vision is “Creating a society that empowers everyone to continually experience the delight of becoming their best self.” Since our founding, ASKUL has supported businesses through indirect material procurement. With this vision, we seek to extend our support beyond the corporate sphere to society as a whole—providing working people with support for self-realization, with our desire to increase happy people.
As a milestone to be achieved by 2035, we have also set forth: “Beyond Retail, Transforming the Way People Work.” We will launch and scale up new businesses that go beyond traditional retail to offer solutions for indirect operations, with the goal of growing them to a level comparable to our existing businesses by 2035.
As part of the growth strategy for the ASKUL Business, we are focusing on customers in in-person service industries, where continued growth is expected, and expanding product offerings in daily necessities at workplaces, moving beyond traditional office supplies to capture emerging areas of demand.
Regarding our logistics infrastructure—one of our long-standing strengths—our largest core distribution center in the Kanto region, the ASKUL Kanto DC, began operations in June 2025. This marks a major turning point in the reorganization of our distribution centers across the Kanto region. With this, we are further optimizing our nationwide logistics network and enabling even higher-quality and more efficient delivery.
We are also accelerating concrete initiatives toward realizing our vision of Ethical E-commerce. Our Resource-Recycling Platform continues to expand steadily. One notable example is the development of products using marine plastic waste collected from Tsushima City in Nagasaki Prefecture. These initiatives exemplify ASKUL’s strength in co-creating with stakeholders, enabling us to generate both social and economic value simultaneously.
We will continue to earnestly address challenges facing our customers, society, and the planet, and contribute to building a sustainable future through our business activities.
We sincerely appreciate your continued support and trust.
August 2025
Akira Yoshioka
Representative Director, President and CEO