Our Business Evolution OUR BUSINESS EVOLUTION / PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS / OUR GROUP STRUCTURE
AT A GLANCE Our Business Evolution OUR BUSINESS EVOLUTION / PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS / OUR GROUP STRUCTURE The 59 Years of Our Corporate History FY2018 Consolidated Revenue 2,310.7bn yen Business fields expansion Digital transformation Globalization Recruit Group was founded in 1960 as a small Recruit Group began using computers at a time In the 2000s, Recruit Group entered the global advertising agency specializing in university when their use was still limited, putting digitization market with a bridal business in China. Although newspapers. Two years later, we published our into practice for increased efciency. Following the this ended as a withdrawal, the failure helped “Invitation to Companies,” a collection of job listings introduction of a supercomputer in the 1980s, we us to shape our mergers and acquisitions (M&A) for university students, through which we established transitioned from paper magazines to online media strategy, and we later succeeded in expanding our business model referred to as the “Ribbon in the 1990s, and then to mobile platforms. Not in the US, Europe, Australia and beyond. The 46% Model.” Since then, we have widened our range of only did this allow for faster and more convenient acquisitions of Indeed in 2012 and Glassdoor in Overseas HR business, while also expanding into the life events delivery of information, but it also transformed how 2018 have led to the successful establishment of feld, including education, housing, automobiles, individual users and enterprise clients interact, our HR Technology business, spearheading the bridal, and the lifestyle feld including travel, dining, through the development of groundbreaking tools growth of the Group as a whole and bringing the and beauty.
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