Rising Raw Material, Packaging, Energy and Transportation Costs

「The contribution from higher revenue and cost reductions through transformation contributed to improved profitability.」

「Consolidated operating profit was ¥1,535 million, an increase of ¥4,326 million from the same period of the previous year. In addition to the contribution from top-line growth, cost savings through transformation and lower promotional expenses resulting from marketing activities focused on cost-effectiveness contributed to improved profitability.」

「Consolidated operating profit was ¥12,046 million, an increase of ¥10,021 million, or 494.8%, from the previous fiscal year. In addition to the contribution from top-line growth, cost savings through transformation, improved manufacturing efficiency and the ability to appropriately manage costs increased by rising raw material, supplies and energy prices and the weaker yen contributed to a significant improvement in profitability.」

「In addition to the contribution from top-line growth, cost savings through transformation and the ability to keep costs increased by rising raw material, supplies and energy prices and the weaker yen at or below the prior-year level contributed to improved profitability.」

「Profitability improved through the contribution from top-line growth, cost reductions in the supply chain and back-office functions through transformation, and the ability to contain increased costs from higher prices for raw materials, supplies and energy and the weaker yen at or below the level of the same period of the previous year.」

「Consolidated operating profit increased by ¥17,063 million year on year to ¥5,867 million, compared with a loss of ¥11,196 million in the same period of the previous year. Despite continued cost increases from external factors such as higher prices for raw materials, supplies and energy and the weaker yen, profitability improved substantially through the contribution from top-line growth, including higher sales volume and improved selling prices per case, lower promotional expenses from marketing activities focused on cost effectiveness, and lower logistics costs resulting from improvements to the supply network.」

「Consolidated operating profit improved by ¥11,458 million year on year to a loss of ¥6,763 million, compared with a loss of ¥18,221 million in the same period of the previous year. Although costs increased due to external factors such as higher prices for raw materials, supplies and energy and the weaker yen, the company improved profitability through the contribution from top-line growth, including higher sales volume and improved selling prices per case, lower promotional expenses from marketing activities focused on cost effectiveness, and lower logistics costs resulting from improvements to the supply network.」

「Consolidated operating profit was a loss of ¥14,443 million, an improvement from a loss of ¥14,662 million in the previous fiscal year. Although the company achieved approximately ¥20 billion in profit improvement in areas within its control, including the effects of volume growth, improved selling prices per case following price revisions, improved manufacturing and logistics efficiency and advancing transformation, the results were significantly affected by cost increases from external factors such as higher prices for raw materials, supplies and energy and the weaker yen.」

「Although costs increased due to higher prices for raw materials, supplies and energy, the weaker yen and the reversal of temporary cost reductions implemented in the same period of the previous year, operating profit increased year on year, representing a smaller loss, due to volume growth, an improved packaging mix, the profit contribution from improved selling prices per case from the second quarter onward, and the effects of cost reductions from improved manufacturing and logistics efficiency and advancing transformation.」

「Consolidated operating profit was a loss of ¥18,221 million, compared with a loss of ¥14,799 million in the same period of the previous year. Although volume growth, an improved packaging mix, improved selling prices per case in the second quarter and cost reductions from advancing transformation contributed to profit, results were affected by higher prices for raw materials, supplies and crude oil, the weaker yen and the reversal of temporary cost reductions implemented in the same period of the previous year.」

「Consolidated operating profit was a loss of ¥12,749 million, compared with a loss of ¥11,596 million in the same period of the previous year. Although the company pursued cost reductions in all areas, including advancing transformation, results were affected by a deterioration in the channel and packaging mix, lower selling prices per case, higher prices for raw materials, supplies and crude oil, and the reversal of temporary cost reductions implemented in the same period of the previous year.」

「Although the company pursued cost reductions in all areas, including recurring cost savings through transformation, to minimise the impact of lower revenue on profit, results were affected by changes in consumer purchasing behaviour and their impact on channels and packaging, lower selling prices per case, higher market prices and logistics costs, and the implementation at appropriate levels of marketing and human resources investments that contribute to medium- and long-term growth, among the costs that had been restrained in the previous year.」

「Although the company was recovering from supply constraints since the second half of the previous year and expanding manufacturing capacity, operating profit was ¥2,523 million, down ¥6,210 million, or 71.1%, year on year, due in part to continued declines in manufacturing efficiency and higher logistics costs.」

「If the costs of major raw materials used by the group to manufacture products, such as sugar, fruit juice, tea leaves and coffee beans; containers and packaging materials, such as aluminium cans, PET bottles, resin, plastic and corrugated cardboard; energy, such as crude oil and electricity; or transportation rise due to fluctuations in market prices, economic conditions, fuel costs, weather, natural disasters, foreign exchange rates or other factors, including labour shortages in transportation and other services, the group's financial position and operating results may be affected.」