日本第一大人力资源服务商Recruit营收同比增11.3% ,盈利能力下降
日本第一大人力资源服务供应商Recruit最新财务数据显示,截至2014年9月30日的六个月该公司营收同比上涨10.4%至6,173亿日元(约合53亿美元)。2014财年上半年Recruit毛利润为3,040亿日元(约合26亿美元),运营利润却同比下滑3.2%至534亿日元(约合4.618亿美元);2014财年上半年净利润同比下滑4.1%至284亿日元(约合2.456亿美元)。该公司表示,之所以盈利能力有所下降,其原因在于Recruit战略调整正在实施中长期增长的投资策略。
值得强调的是,Recruit人才服务业务在2014财年上半年的营收为3,281亿日元(约合28亿美元),同比增幅达11.3%。据悉,人才服务业务营收占该公司总营收的53%。Recruit人才服务业务在2014财年上半年中的息税折旧摊销前利润同比也大幅上涨13.1%至189亿日元(约合1.61亿美元)。
财报还显示,Recruit本土市场日本的人才服务业务市场依旧在呈现出稳步拓张趋势。日本本土市场人才服务业务在2014年上半年的营收为1,915亿日元(约合17亿美元)。Recruit海外市场中的北美及欧洲区业务扩张形势进一步加强,其海外人才服务业务营收同比上涨13.2%至1,365亿日元(约合12亿美元)。
Recruit Holdings revenue up by over 10%
(Nov. 17, 2014,/staffingindustry.com/)Recruit Holdings (6098: JP), the largest staffing firm in Japan, reported revenue of JPY 617.3 billion (USD 5.3 billion) for the six months ending 30 September 2014, an increase of +10.4% over the same period in 2013. The company achieved gross profit for the period of JPY 304 billion (USD 2.6 billion), while operating income of JPY 53.4 billion (USD 461.8 million) decreased by -3.2% compared to 2013. Net income decreased by -4.1% to JPY 28.4 billion (USD 245.6 million), year-on-year. The reduction in profitability was attributed to investments carried out for medium-term growth.
The Staffing segment which represents 53% of the company’s total revenue reported revenue of JPY 328.1 billion (USD 2.8 billion) for the six month period, an increase of 11.3% over the same period last year. Staffing EBITDA was JPY 18.9 billion (USD 161 million), an increase of +13.1% over the same period in 2013.
According to the company’s financial statement; the domestic staffing market continues to enjoy a moderate expansion trend as the number of active agency workers remain on an upward trend. Revenue from domestic staffing during the period was JPY 191.5 billion (USD 1.7 billion). In the overseas staffing market, operations in North America and Europe enjoyed a moderate expansion trend. Net sales were favourable, reflecting steady growth in business performance and successful growth of outsourcing services at Advantage Resourcing Europe. Revenue from overseas staffing operations was JPY 136.5 billion (USD 1.2 billion), an increase of +13.2%.
来源:staffingindustry.com
专为中小型企业服务的数据备份公司Datto,获7500万美元B轮融资
来源:猎云网 (编译:竹子)
Datto,一家为中小型企业服务的数据备份和恢复公司,在今天宣布获得7500万美元B轮融资。
此轮融资由TCV领投。至此,这家成立8年的公司,两轮融资累计金额达1亿美元。
TCV 的普通合伙人Ted Coons表示,他们对Datto很感兴趣,它既有强势的领导、成熟的产品,还有巨大的市场潜力。“全世界有大约500万家中小型企业,这意味着很大的发展空间。”
当中小型企业遇到突发灾难,例如飓风等大型自然灾害可以在顷刻之间就将办公室和设备摧毁一空,此时Datto可以帮助企业进行快速备份。即便是使用云端服务的公司,也很可能有一些本地服务器,Datto的职责就是保证它们在灾难来临时能继续运作。
Datto开发的硬件和软件能够以最高每5分钟一次的频率,对一家公司的整个信息技术系统进行快速备份。2011年,当龙卷风席卷密苏里州时,Datto在瞬间就恢复了当地医院访问医疗记录的能力。在飓风桑迪摧毁了纽约对冲基金公司Richmond Hill的系统之后,Datto在数分钟内就令其恢复上线,重新接入市场。
在去年,Datto推出了Backupify——一款云间备份工具,将中小企业的安全级别又提升了一个等级。
尽管公司并不是很需要这笔融资,CEO Austin McChord还是看见了此次融资能带来的一些有利条件,并且抓住了它。“我们是盈利的,但能有一些额外资本用来帮助地域扩张、开发产品或进行战略采购也挺不错。”
产品主要是通过托管服务供应商们进行销售,这些供货商帮助中小型企业进行IT运营。McChord称Datto现在有550名雇员,和近5万名用户,其中85%的用户来自美国。
McChord透露,未来的产品可以帮助用户们在公司权限范围内使用160千兆位的数据,这些数据一般在灾难发生前很少被使用到。McChord拒绝透露这些数据将被如何使用,毕竟产品只是他头脑中的一个概念还并未成型,但公司会认真考虑,如何才能帮助用户们信息利用最大化。
Source:TC
Datto Scores $75 Million As It Seeks To Expand Beyond Disaster Recovery
Datto, the company that acts as a backup and disaster recovery service for small to medium sized businesses (SMBs), announced today that it has raised $75 million in a Series B investment.
The round was led by Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV) and brings the total investment across two rounds for the eight-year old company to just over $100 million.
Ted Coons, a general partner at TCV said the firm was attracted to Datto because it had strong leadership with a well-defined product in a huge potential market space.
“On a worldwide basis there are about 5 million [SMBs] — businesses of substance — they’ve got 50,000 endpoints/customers. There’s a lot of room to build,” he said.
Datto helps SMBs get back up and running quickly in the event of a weather event like a hurricane (or any disaster) that could wipe out the offices, computers and on-site servers of a small business. Even companies using cloud services very likely have some on-premises servers and the service is designed to ensure business continuity when a disaster hits.
Last year Datto also bought Backupify, a cloud-to-cloud backup tool giving it another level of safety for SMBs.
Even though they didn’t necessarily need the money, CEO Austin McChord saw an opportunity to get some additional capital on favorable terms and he took it.
“We are profitable, but it’s nice to have [additional] cash to continue geographic expansion, develop new [products] or make a strategic purchase,” CEO Austin McChord told TechCrunch.
The company sells primarily through the channel using Managed Service Providers, organizations which help SMBs run their IT function. McChord reports Datto currently has 550 employees and in the neighborhood of 50,000 customers, 85 percent of which are in the US.
Part of his long-term plan is to expand further into worldwide markets, and to that end, the company already has an office in the UK staffed with 50 people to help establish a market in Europe. It also has a newly minted office in Australia to help make a push there and into Asia.
The company also wants to use some of the money to expand the product line and it already has an internet-enabled networking product coming out soon. The product, as with the backup and recovery service is aimed at SMBs and designed to allow MSPs to communicate with the network device even when there is no internet connection on-site, something that would be very useful in a disaster situation. Instead of rolling a truck and having a service worker check on the scene, they have options to communicate with the network before they have to do that.
McChord also hinted at a future product that could help customers make use of the 160 petabytes of data under the company’s purview that is just sitting there unused unless disaster strikes. He wouldn’t say how he would use it — it wasn’t clear that he even has a specific product in mind just yet — but the company is clearly thinking about how it could help its customers make better use of all of that information, while expanding the product line beyond pure disaster recovery.
By this time next year, the company, which has its headquarter in Norwalk, Connecticut could have close to 700 employees as part of its expansion plans.