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TRIAL Holdings ties its ¥64.0bn operating-profit target for the year to June 2029 to converting 30 Seiyu hypermarkets, a ¥13bn purchasing gain by mid-2027 and a ¥45bn private-label and category-management gain.
TRIAL Holdings folded Seiyu into its accounts on July 1, 2025, pushing total assets to ¥807.8bn from ¥300.3bn, while the equity ratio more than halved to 16.2% and attributable profit dropped from ¥11.8bn to ¥3.5bn as the retailer absorbed acquisition borrowing costs.
TRIAL Holdings will move Seiyu's supermarket operations into a renamed subsidiary it keeps, while selling the emptied-out original entity, now just a landlord for select stores, to a buyer called Unicorn GK by December 1, 2026.
Trial Holdings will, from Aug. 1, move the management business of Trial Golf & Resort out of Trial Real Estate and directly under the parent through a no-consideration internal split. The company says the point is faster decision-making and tighter governance after the Seiyu deal broadened its retail footprint, while the disclosed earnings impact is minor.