Stagnant Domestic Market and Intensifying Competition
First written in FY2017-Q2. 7 of 13 entries say "Restated". Latest entry: FY2026.
Kotobuki Spirits moved to the "Worse" side of this theme in 2018, 4 years before the typical company in this theme (2022).
The whole theme swung hardest in 2026: 21 of 39 companies on the "Worse" side.
21 other companies' latest entry also says "Worsened".
- FY2026WorsenedAnnual report
「As Japan’s declining birthrate and aging population and population decline continue, we expect sales competition across industries and business formats to intensify further within a limited market.」
Against the backdrop of population decline and the limited market size, sales competition across industries and business formats is expected to intensify further. - FY2020WorsenedAnnual report
「As Japan’s declining birthrate and aging population and population decline continue, we expect sales competition across industries and business formats to intensify further within a limited market.」
In addition to the existing intensification of competition, further competition is expected against the backdrop of Japan’s declining birthrate and aging population, population decline, and the limited market size. - FY2020-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「The business environment remained broadly challenging due to intensifying competition across industries and business formats, rising logistics costs, and rising labor costs resulting from labor shortages.」
The challenging business environment resulting from intensifying competition, rising logistics costs, and rising labor costs against the backdrop of labor shortages continues. - FY2020-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「The business environment remained broadly challenging due to intensifying competition across industries and business formats, rising logistics costs, and rising labor costs resulting from labor shortages.」
Intensifying competition across industries and business formats continues to be a source of pressure, alongside rising logistics costs and labor costs. - FY2020-Q1WorsenedAnnual report
「The business environment remained broadly challenging due to intensifying competition across industries and business formats, as well as rising labor costs resulting from labor shortages.」
In addition to intensifying competition, rising labor costs resulting from labor shortages have become a factor contributing to the challenging business environment. - FY2019-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「The business continued to operate in an increasingly challenging environment, affected by intensifying competition across industries and business formats, rising logistics costs, and natural disasters, including torrential rains observed across Japan, record-breaking heat, major typhoons making landfall, and earthquakes, which had a negative impact on performance.」
A challenging operating environment, including intensifying competition across industries and business formats, rising logistics costs, and the impact of natural disasters, continues. - FY2019-Q2WorsenedAnnual report
「The business continued to operate in an increasingly challenging environment, affected by intensifying competition across industries and business formats, rising logistics costs, and natural disasters, including torrential rains observed across Japan, record-breaking heat, major typhoons making landfall, and earthquakes, which had a negative impact on performance.」
In addition to the existing pressures from intensifying competition and rising logistics costs, the negative impact of natural disasters on performance has compounded the challenging operating environment. - FY2019-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「The business continued to face a challenging operating environment due to intensifying competition across industries and business formats, as well as rising logistics costs.」
Intensifying competition across industries and business formats continues to be identified as a challenging business environment. - FY2018WorsenedAnnual report
「The business continued to operate in a challenging environment, with competition across market boundaries remaining fierce.」
The wording on intensifying competition has become stronger, changing from “tending to intensify” to “remaining fierce.” - FY2018-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「As consumers became increasingly selective about products and services, sales competition intensified, and the business continued to operate in a challenging environment.」
Intensifying sales competition against the backdrop of increasingly selective consumer behavior continues to be identified as a business-environment risk. - FY2018-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「Private consumption remained sluggish. As consumers became increasingly selective about products and services, sales competition intensified, and conditions remained challenging.」
Intensifying sales competition against the backdrop of weak domestic consumption continues to be identified as a business-environment risk. - FY2017-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「Against the backdrop of sluggish domestic market growth, competition among companies across industries and business formats is tending to intensify.」
Sluggish domestic market growth and intensifying competition across industries and business formats continue to be described as business-environment risks. - FY2017-Q2First statedAnnual report
「Against the backdrop of sluggish domestic market growth, competition among companies across industries and business formats is tending to intensify.」
The business environment, in which competition across industries and business formats is intensifying against the backdrop of sluggish domestic market growth, has been newly identified.