Message from the President

When our founder, Shoya Honda, traveled to the United States, he was impressed by the emergence of suburban stores as the motorization of North American society progressed. One type of store that particularly caught his eye was the home center. Convinced that consumers in Japan, their food and clothing needs having been met, would soon turn their eyes toward their living environments, he decided in 1975 to establish “Joyful Honda,” with the theme of “making living environments richer and more comfortable.”
The company’s name, “Joyful Honda,” is imbued with the founder’s wish to bring smiles and enjoyment and to create joy and dreams together with customers. Even today, as needs and channels have become increasingly diverse, the joy of local communities is our joy, and eliminating customers’ “negatives” and delivering new value has been our style since the very beginning.
Without being bound by the conventions of the home center, we will build stores that are connected to locals with strong bonds of trust and that are loved by their local communities. We also aim to create stores where our employees can feel pride and joy in working in those local communities and in our stores.
We will continue our “innovation” and “challenge” to be the kind of stores that customers will think of first, both in normal times and when they have a problem to solve.

Never forgetting our beginnings, we look forward to welcoming you to the new Joyful Honda!

Under our company's fundamental policy for the current fiscal year - “Create More Fans of Joyful Honda!!” - we have been working hard to enhance our product lineup, presentation skills, and customer service capabilities in order to please our customers.

As for new store openings in the current consolidated fiscal year, in August 2025 we opened the Pet's CLOVER Kashiwanoha Store, a store specializing in sales of pet items, and in September 2025 we opened the Hondaya Ageo Hinode Store, a hardware store specializing in tools and work clothes for professionals. From the third quarter, we also decided to newly open the Hondaya Yashio Nishibukuro Store and the Joyful Honda Shizaikan Chiba Hamanocho Store, and we will accelerate our strategy of opening specialty stores.

 

Moreover, we are preparing to open a new type of store inside our Joyful Honda Shizaikan stores that will provide agricultural materials and equipment, as well as gardening supplies, to meet the needs of a wide range of people, from home gardeners to professional farmers. We will also continue to deepen our existing business and promote new initiatives.

 

On September 30, 2025, JOYFUL HONDA acquired all of the issued shares of Honda Co., Ltd. (a home centers and lumber business), making it into a consolidated subsidiary.
 Looking ahead, JOYFUL HONDA will strengthen our comprehensive capabilities by leveraging Honda Co. Ltd.'s strengths in delivery functions and its corporate customer base, alongside JOYFUL HONDA's strengths, which include a diverse product lineup and outstanding purchasing, procurement, and customer acquisition capabilities. We will work to enhance our corporate value by demonstrating synergistic effects in our Home Center Business, Renovation Business, and our Lumber Sales and Housing Business.

 

As a result of the above efforts, in the interim consolidated accounting period, net sales were 64,147 million yen, operating profit was 5,266 million yen, ordinary profit was 5,867 million yen, and interim profit attributable to owners of parent was 5,959 million yen.