Head of Division Messages

The Apparel II Division mainly handles products for speciality stores, shopping centers, and online fashion businesses—and this particular product category is one of the largest within the fashion industry.
 

Because of the scale of this market, competition is intense, making differentiation an essential prerequisite for being chosen as a supply chain partner.
 

To achieve this, we will evolve the original design manufacturer (ODM) business we have cultivated over the years, differentiating our offerings through product planning while responding flexibly to customers’ needs in terms of lot size and lead time. Our goal is to become a trusted partner in product supply that customers actively choose.
 

We will cultivate the talent needed to drive a transition from our focus on product manufacturing to value creation, while pursuing businesses that are both profitable and sustainable.

The Retail Division’s business activities exemplify our ability to move beyond the traditional textile trading company framework. The division’s greatest strength lies in creating value at the point closest to consumers—not simply distributing products, but creating reasons to be chosen by consumers through products, brands, and experiences. WINWIN YJV Co., Ltd., which operates Nike stores across Japan, aims to help boost customers’ health, happiness, and quality of life through the provision of Nike-brand products and services. We directly convey ‘the power of sport—the joy of physical activity, the drive to take on challenges, and the power to bring people together’ through our daily customer interactions and services. It is precisely this ability to experience our customers’ reactions first-hand that serves as the driving force behind our business.
 

Over many long years as a trading group, the YAGI Group has built a history not only of connecting materials and products, but also of connecting people and generating new value. By drawing on this track record, we will continue developing retail business unique to the YAGI Group. We also aim to become a driver of the YAGI Group’s future growth by proactively investing in new businesses where we see potential to expand them.

The Business Support Division is responsible for the specialized foundational functions that support the YAGI Group’s diverse operations, such as internal business support and logistics management.
 

Working in coordination with our segment-based management structure, the division promotes the streamlining and standardization of back-office operations, thereby serving as a sort of shared infrastructure that enables each business segment to grow strategically and enhance its competitiveness. The division also strongly promotes digital transformation, supporting collaboration with partner companies and helping accelerate the YAGI Group’s business growth. The division’s aim is not merely to provide back-office functions, but to contribute strategically as a partner in business growth.

With the launch of our new divisional structure, I would like to offer a few words of greeting.
 

Guided by our belief in co-creation partnerships, Apparel I Division will focus on strengthening profitability in television and catalog mail-order sales, expanding our uniform business and intellectual property licensing operations, and developing new overseas sales channels and new markets as core growth drivers.
 

Under the new management philosophy of Business to Belief, we will evolve from an organization that simply sells products into one that creates meaningful change for society.
 

We will position the fashion business as a foundational business that supports stable earnings, while challenging ourselves to transform our business model.
 

Guided by the stance of moving from transactions to co-creation, we aim to engage with our partners as equals and create projects founded on shared beliefs.
 

By pursuing craftsmanship that people can believe in and that stands the test of time, we will help build a more abundant future.

We have combined the expertise in raw materials and yarn that we have developed over the more than 130 years since our founding with the planning and product capabilities of our lifestyle business. Through this integration, we have established a vertically integrated model that handles the entire value chain from upstream to downstream, enabling rapid, high value-added proposals that leverage our global supply network.
 

In our new medium-term management plan, we have adopted “one step ahead” as our guiding policy. We will focus on developing materials and fabrics with the end user in mind while also focusing on expanding our global operations. Through our sustainable materials brand UNITO, we will advance environmental strategies, while strengthening our wellness business centered on our proprietary material LAVATECH. Our goal is to create products that shift environmentally conscious choices from being something “special” to something that is “natural.”
 

Guided by our Business to Belief philosophy, we will deliver the background stories of our materials and the dedication of their creators to the world, leveraging our domestic and global production bases and our proprietary traceability systems. Across the entire value chain, we will continue creating new value while working to contribute to a sustainable future and to enhance corporate value.

WEAVA aims to be both a company and a brand that meets customer expectations through innovative products, and that tackles challenges with customers and grows together with them.
 

Our goal is to be a presence that resonates with the everyday lives and ambitions of people who are active on the international stage.
 

Over the past three years, our guiding policy has been to lay the groundwork for sustained growth. In our upcoming medium-term management plan, we will adopt “act globally, think locally” as our guiding policy. By raising our perspective to global standards while optimizing brand value for each market, we will pursue both enhanced customer satisfaction and business growth. We will further develop our customer strategies centered on customer lifetime value (LTV) while optimizing our brand portfolio. In doing so, we will strengthen our long-term relationships with customers and achieve sustained growth of our corporate value.

In April 2026, the YAGI Group introduced a new tagline—“Business to Belief”—and renewed its corporate logo. As we aim to shift rapidly into a new stage of growth, we have reorganized our corporate planning, finance and accounting, and risk management functions into the Corporate Management Division. With this new structure, we will work to build a robust management foundation that supports the sustained growth of the entire Group.
 

Although the YAGI Group’s business environment is undergoing dramatic changes, we view these changes as opportunities and will strive to achieve a high level of integration between defensive and offensive governance.
 

Our financial strategy is to maintain disciplined capital allocation with a focus on capital efficiency, pursuing an optimal balance between growth investment and shareholder returns. We will also promote constructive dialogue with investors and implement strategic initiatives aimed at enhancing our market valuation. Through risk management, we will ensure strict compliance and build an organization capable of adapting to change, while steadfastly maintaining systems to prevent damage to our corporate value.
 

Under our next medium-term management plan, scheduled to be published in May, we will practice transparent management and strive to live up to the trust and expectations of our stakeholders. Stay tuned for the renewed YAGI Group’s ambitious new ventures.

The guiding policy of the Corporate Division’s human resources strategy is to rapidly boost investment in human capital in order to place the YAGI Group on a unique growth trajectory. We believe our mission is to build a robust organizational foundation that supports sustained value creation through maximizing individual performance and cultivating a diverse array of future leaders.
 

Our reform efforts are focused on three pillars:
- Defining and systematizing “high-performing talent”
- Establishing systems for quantitative evaluation and continuous improvement
- Strengthening personnel development and opportunity provision.
 

Through surveys, we will identify high performers and reflect the survey results into personnel development programs. We will conduct pulse surveys to facilitate real-time organizational improvements, while strategically implementing external training and fast-tracking female management candidates and upcoming leaders.
 

We will work to ensure that each individual is able to fully demonstrate their abilities. We will also work to improve organizational productivity through higher engagement levels and to foster continuous innovation by upcoming leaders.
 

The Corporate Division will unite as a team to advance these reforms, opening up the path toward 2029 and beyond together with our employees, while also establishing standards for group management across the YAGI Group.