Walkerplus, Inc., which operates the comprehensive local portal sites fully covering the urban information and the entertainment information, finally put its business on truck and is going to contribute to the profit of Kadokawa Group. The company is attracting the interest of overseas investors, and, especially in the US where IT business entered into the second phase, the company is calling attention of the investors as the promising object of investment in this sort of business area. The service area of the company covers 8 regions, where the “Walker” magazine is sold, and Saitama and Kyoto Prefectures. The clients of the company are restaurants, wedding ceremony halls, hair salons, inns, communities, etc., and the business area of the clients is expanding. In Japan, the business of “Mobile Walker” to provide information by the cellular phones has grown to yield the profit and is supporting the management base of Walkerplus. “Mobile Walker” operated by this company is the official cellular phone site of Walker magazine and is providing big volume of nationwide urban and entertainment information, such as the gourmet information, TV programs and movie showing schedule. In this service, the privilege coupon is offered when the gourmet information is accessed and the site to download the music pieces to notice the receipt of call or mail associated with “Walker” and “The Television” magazines were newly added, and such features are contributing to increase the number of members. Furthermore, the collaboration with the free magazines, “Tokyo Index” and “Kadonavi”, which Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd. newly issued, is expected to expand the business field of this company. Kadokawa Shoten, in cooperation with Walkerplus, started the sale of “Keitai Walker Map”, which is a Walker mook publication produced by the joint planning work with Zenrin Co., Ltd. at the bookstores in Tokyo metropolitan area in May 2004. This publication plan intends to realize the collaboration of book and cellular phone and the book is made of handy map leaves containing the information contents covered by the issues of the magazine “Tokyo Walker” for the past one year period. The feature of the book is that the locations of the restaurants and shops are shown on the map leaves and the related articles and photos can be viewed by means of the Internet browsing function of the cellular phone. Another big feature of the service is the supply of large quantity real-time contents utilizing the advantage of Internet media such as the showing schedule of movie theaters, the information of parking space availability and the “Available ATM” information at the moment of access. Walkerplus website Walkerplus Tokyo Gourmet food Mobile Walker Movie Mobile Walker Gourmet Keitai Walker map Tokyo Walker Kadokawa Digix is a unique company, which is engaged in the solution business in the field of media communication, by merging the analog and digital technologies in the production of TV programs and the contents for the web and cellular phone networks. In the department of image products, the company is producing high quality image contents from the contents sources of Kadokawa Group, ranging widely from the entertainment area such as dramas and varieties to the welfare and education contents. For the cellular phone application, the company is supplying contents to wide range of carriers based on its experience of engagement in the production of i-mode contents. Furthermore, in the area of web operations, the company is providing high quality production, operation and management of web sites. Needless to say, the company is indispensable for the contents business of Kadokawa Group companies for its strong support capability. web KADOKAWA Mobile Bunko Yomihodai Kadokawa Interactive Media is supplying the TV listings and movie information to “Weekly The Television” and “Monthly The Television” as well as such information magazines as “Walker”. In addition to the distribution of information, this company is to participate in the editing of three The Television magazines. The management of this company has been stable since its establishment, has increased the number of magazines on its distribution network and is expanding its business area more than ever. And, the company made the web-based TV listings “Web The Television” to cover every place in the country and started to update the contents on a daily basis in Tokyo metropolitan area and 4 other major areas nationwide. And the service is planned to be expanded to all areas in the country in 2004. The business of the company consists of the distribution of the electronic program guides (EPG) to the providers, the weekly distribution of the program guide to local news paper companies, the weekly and monthly distribution of the same to the town information magazines nationwide and the production and supply of TV listings data to local TV stations for the uploading to their web pages. The company also started to distribute TV listings data made by the “New Program Table Production System” for use with Sony's hard disk recorders. Furthermore, the company started the operation of TV listings site for cellular phones “Keitai The Television” as the business. The number of paid members, who can see the commentary of TV programs, reached 30,000. Keitai The Television web The Televison website TV Program guides Weekly The Television Monthly The Television BS CS The Television Copyright KADOKAWA HOLDINGS, INC. All rights reserved.