Dentsu Inc. (TOKYO:4324)(ISIN:JP3551520004; President & CEO: Tadashi Ishii; Head Office: Tokyo; Capital: 74,609.81 million yen) today convened a meeting of its Board of Directors at its Head Office in Tokyo at which it resolved to adopt the International Financial Reporting Standards (hereinafter “IFRS”) in place of the Japanese GAAP used to date for its Consolidated Financial Report and Consolidated Financial Statements. The transition to IFRS from Japanese GAAP will take effect from the Company’s consolidated financial results for the fiscal year ending March 2015 (fiscal 2014). As a result, an IFRS-based forecast of consolidated financial results for the fiscal year ending March 2015 is provided in the chart below.

 
Millions of yen
    Revenue   Gross profit  

Operating
income

 

Net income
for the six
months
ended
September
30, 2014
attributable to
the parent
company

 

Net income
per share
(Yen)

Current forecast 702,500 655,700 104,700 60,000 208.07

(Reference)
Previously announced
forecast

669,300 626,600 101,700 58,700 203.56

(Reference)
Actual results for prior year
(Fiscal year ended
March 31, 2014)

  643,284   598,166   108,599   66,507   230.63
 

Note
The forecasts of revenue and income provided in this document have been calculated based on judgments and assumptions made using currently available information such as industry trends and client circumstances. Therefore, actual revenue and income may differ from the forecasts due to uncertain elements inherent in the forecasts as well as other factors including changes in the domestic or overseas economic conditions of business operations going forward.

[About the Dentsu Group]

Dentsu is the world’s largest advertising agency brand. Led by Dentsu Inc. (Tokyo: 4324; ISIN: JP3551520004), a company with a history of 113 years of innovation, the Dentsu Group provides a comprehensive range of client-centric brand, integrated communications, media and digital services through its eight global network brands—Carat, Dentsu, Dentsu media, iProspect, Isobar, mcgarrybowen, Posterscope and Vizeum—as well as through its specialist/multi-market brands including Amnet, Amplifi, Data2Decisions, Mitchell Communications (PR), psLIVE and 360i.

The Dentsu Group has a strong presence in 124 countries across five continents, and employs around 40,000 dedicated professionals. Dentsu Aegis Network Ltd., its global business headquarters in London, oversees Dentsu’s agency operations outside of Japan. The Group is also active in the production and marketing of sports and entertainment content on a global scale.
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