Culture Convenience Club (TSUTAYA, Tsutaya Books)

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From the company's own filing for Full year to March 2026 · reported 2026-07-06 · the filing

StoresCCC runs TSUTAYA, Tsutaya Books and TSUTAYA BOOKSTORE stores itself. In the year it says it worked on profitability at its T-SITE complexes and Tsutaya Books, part of whose premises it bought the year before, and on fully launching the renewed SHIBUYA TSUTAYA; it also grew its cafés and share lounges.
Not disclosedThe filing gives no store count, no store or segment figures and no forecast. CCC's franchise business was merged in October 2023 into the wholesaler now called Culture Experience, a 49%-owned affiliate from which CCC bought ¥11.7bn of goods in the year; floortok found no results published by it.

Other callouts in the filing

One-offNet income was lifted by a ¥40.76bn gain on selling down CCCMK Holdings, the V Point loyalty company: CCC sold 34,871 shares back to CCCMK and 41,845 to Sumitomo Mitsui Card, completed on 31 March 2026, leaving it with 20%. CCCMK was renamed V Point Marketing on 1 April.
One-offBefore that gain, CCC made an operating loss of ¥0.67bn (a ¥90m profit a year earlier) and a recurring loss of ¥0.84bn (a ¥1.72bn profit), citing lower dividends from subsidiaries among the reasons. It also booked ¥5.81bn of special losses, including ¥3.98bn of impairment on fixed assets whose profitability had fallen.
BasisSales understate what passes through CCC's tills: it books sales of Japanese-language books net, as an agent, because of Japan's resale price maintenance system. The figures are for CCC alone; its loan covenants are tested on consolidated accounts, but it does not publish them.
SegmentAfter the year end CCC bought 87.99% of TSE Growth-listed Jimoty, which runs the Jimoty platform and Jimoty Spot reuse outlets, in a ¥1,420-a-share tender offer that closed on 29 June 2026, paid from its own funds. Its stated aims include franchising Jimoty Spot across the CCC group.

floortok's reading of the filing, in our own words. Figures are the company's own; where a growth rate is our arithmetic, it says so.

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Full year to March 2026

Reported 2026-07-06

Net sales (company only)¥55.2bn+10.4%

Operating profit−¥0.7bn—

Net income¥34.4bn+563.6%

Culture Convenience Club (CCC) runs TSUTAYA and Tsutaya Books stores, including Daikanyama Tsutaya Books and SHIBUYA TSUTAYA, and is privately owned by its founding family. Its parent-company accounts, filed in July 2026, show sales up 10.4% to ¥55.2bn in the year to March 2026 and an operating loss of ¥0.67bn, while net income rose to ¥34.4bn on a ¥40.8bn gain from selling down its V Point stake.