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Updated February 5, 2010

Dear Shareholders and Potential Investors,

President and CEO

  We deeply appreciate all of your support to our company.

  Chip One Stop is a leading semiconductor and electronic component distributor so-called “catalog / online / high-service distributor” in Japan, focused on the design engineering/development, prototype, maintenance/repair, and small lot production.  Providing an innovative online service at "www.chip1stop.com", the company has grown to the first public company as B to B online service by IPO in October 2004 at Tokyo Stock Exchange.

  Since 2001, we have worked on our best to satisfy customers’ needs regardless of the size of the order and/or quantity through our web site, and developed a small lot fulfillment market of electronic components and semiconductors.  As a result of the policy and the effort, the company achieved approx. 82,200 registered members from approx. 29,200 companies/organizations as of December 31, 2009.

  In the fiscal 2009, our business segment of electronic device business posted record-high number of orders and shipments, it could achieve revenue and profit increase under the hard economical circumstance.  At the same time, we achieved the significant product line enlargement and sales channel extension through alliances with major electronic components and semiconductor manufacturers, and we reinforced customer services and web based functionalities including linking with intranet purchasing site of major electronic manufactures such as OMRON and HITACHI. At the same time, we launched various original products and services. In July 2009, 5th 1,000pages+ hardcopy catalog was published, which is upgraded in contents and number of pages phenomenally. In November 2009, we enlarged our Logistics Center to enhance logistics quality and fulfill customer service.

  We recognize the market is about to fully accept our new service and business model of "Fast Delivery with No Minimum Order". We continue to make aggressive investment to promotional activities and strategic business development.

  We have been revolutionary developing new distribution systems of electronic components and semiconductors in Japanese market that is traditionally divided by seller's sales network mainly for mass-production market. Although Japanese electronics market has been changing to design oriented job function rather than mass-production oriented function, traditional distributors have not been providing one stop shopping, quick turn around, small lot fulfillment and online services in Japan. As a pioneer of this new distribution systems in Japan having a big opportunity with a large number of customers in engineers' community, we keep trying to achieve more customers from more than 400,000 potential design engineers' and buyers' community and getting more revenue from several billion dollar market of engineering/prototype, maintenance/repairing, and small lot production in Japan, which is glowing profitable niche market.

  In addition, we continue to expand strategic related business in our business segment of solution. Solution business, which consists of advisory position of approx. $35million venture fund "enova", to support entrepreneurs and startups in the Japanese electronics market (since 2006), and consulting business for effective procurement of semiconductors and electronic parts.


February 5, 2010
Mark Kojo
Founder, President and CEO