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| At the beginning of fiscal year 2024 despite the challenges of market uncertainty, we made great strides in revenue mix enhancement and cost control with high-margin primary labels showcasing resilient and indirect costs, also seeing a normal drop in amount and percentage to revenue, laying the foundation for a solid first half |
| We are [indiscernible] building upon our leading position, hopefully creating a more resilience and impact for industry presence in the future |
| We have observed encouraging trends, including a significant rise in the number of pets and the increasing authority of pet e-commerce, which bodes well for the future of us at the pet industry aggregator |
| Overall, we remain confident in our unique positioning in China's expanding pet market |
| Its revenue contribution to overall revenue also rose from 17.8% to 26.4%, leading to a stable performance in gross margins and post fulfillment margins, with gross margin standing firm at 20% and post fulfillment margins enjoying an uptick of 170 basis points to 11.2% |
| Hence during the first half, Boqii focuses on strengthening its market position, enhancing its brand profile, improving its user stickiness, refine its product offerings, and streamlining its business operation in preparation for the better ways in the future |
| In the meanwhile, we've delivered satisfactory results for our private label, leveraging our extensive user data and excellent big data capability, we were able to optimize our private labels, product offerings to better cater pet parents' needs while reducing our carrying costs for non-performing FPUs |
| In particular, customer loyalty will be the major growth driver for the growth as the listed company |
| And the non-GAAP net loss is RMB24.2 million, representing an improvement of 15% which show our capacity of breakeven in the short-term future |
| Moving forward, we will continue to strengthen our reach and control throughout the value chain |
| As part of the management team, we totally believe that we are moving in the right direction and we maintain confidence in the development of China's pet industry |
| We will continue our journey to establish a well-rounded ecosystem adaptive delivers values to both pet parents and brand partners |
| Fulfillment expenses decreased 49.4% to RMB34.5 million that lay the foundational and improving cost fulfillment margin, increasing from 9.5% last year to 11.2% |
| Customer purchase frequency also increased from 1.32 last year to 1.34 this year, with growth seen across both new and existing customers |
| Our net loss is RMB27.7 million, representing an improvement of 6% compared to the same period of last year |
| In fact, despite the uncertainties in the macro economy, China's pet economy continued to demonstrate its potential |
| That number is still way behind that in the United States and Europe, suggesting substantial room for expansion |
| In the future, we expect our revenue to stabilize as we finish the optimization of our product mix and as the economy recovers in the short-term future |
| In the future, as we continue to improve our logistics service efficiency and the customer acquisition efficiency, we expect that our operating expenses -- we'll be able to maintain a downward trend and the percentage of the -- our revenue will also decrease in the short-term future |
| We will continue to work diligently and passionately, and we'll keep a keen eye on market dynamics and opportunities so that we can generate sustainable returns to our shareholders |
| In short-term borrowings compared to 31st of March 2023 with no major CapEx forcing and strong credit line back up, we believe we are cash sufficient to support our operation and pursue new initiatives |
| We also made notable efforts on cost of control as we improve the operational efficiency of our logistics services, fulfillment expenses as a percentage of revenue for the first half year decreased to 8.9% compared to 11.6% over last year |
| Although the broad suffered a drop in overall GMV, GMV of private labels actually enjoyed an increase of 2.1% to RMB212.9 million |
| All this, we reassure us that China's pet market is going to eventually rebound |
| The Company has already resolved the delisting risk in October this year, and we successfully listing transferred from NYSE to NYSE America where the Company meets its compliance requirements and currently has no delisting risk |
| Thank you, operator, and thank you all for participating in today's call |
| We continue to execute our strategic adjustment and business optimization |
| We appreciate your interest and look forward to reporting to you again on our progress in the next reporting period |
| Sales and marketing expenses decreased 28.6% to RMB45.4 million, mainly due to the growing efficiency of customer acquisition from more cost-efficient channels |
| Thank you |
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| Our revenue for the first half of fiscal year 2024 was RMB389.4 million, down by 34% year-on-year, as a result of the voting consumer sentiment and consumption downgrades in China, overall gross profit margin only decreased by 100 basis points to 20% with gross profit reaching RMB77.9 million |
| As we grow as a brand, along with the comprehensive content and customized product selection on offer, there was also rising user stickiness, which was reflected in the historic low CC, down by 46% year-over-year to nearly RMB2.8 |
| Unidentified Analyst [Foreign Language] Unidentified Company Representative As described in our ER, the decrease is primarily due to the optimization of product mix related to our business strategy and the worsening consumer sentiment and consumption downgrade in China |
| And our sales and marketing expenses were RMB45.4 million, representing a decrease of 28.6% from RMB63.5 million for the first half year of last year |
| Our total cash and cash equivalents were RMB86.8 million, a drop of RMB72.8 million, mainly due to a decrease of RMB71 million |
| Unidentified Company Representative Our total operating expenses of first half year were RMB110 million representing a decrease of 27.1% from RMB154 million for the same period of last year, especially for our fulfillment expenses as we improve the operational efficiency of our logistics services, our fulfillment expenses as a percentage of total revenue for first half year has decreased to 8.9% compared to 11.6% of last year |
| I want to learn about, has the Company's delisting risk being resolved |
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