Risk of Stagnant Business Growth Due to Insufficient Recruitment and Talent Development
First written in FY2024. 3 of 4 entries say "Restated". Latest entry: FY2026.
The whole theme swung hardest in 2026: 27 of 104 companies on the "Worse" side.
105 other companies' latest entry also says "Restated".
- FY2026RestatedAnnual report
「Securing human resources is becoming more difficult each year. As part of its response to this risk, the Company is working to improve its recruitment and retention rates, including by changing its rules to enable flexible working arrangements that recognize employees' diversity and individuality. However, if the securing and development of human resources fail to keep pace with the Company's growth strategy, this could affect its business performance.」
The Company continues measures to improve recruitment and retention rates through flexible working arrangements and rule changes, identifying recruitment difficulties and staff shortages as risks to business growth. - FY2025RestatedAnnual report
「Securing human resources is becoming more difficult each year. As part of its response to this risk, the Company is working to improve its recruitment and retention rates, including by changing its rules to enable flexible working arrangements that recognize employees' diversity and individuality. However, if the securing and development of human resources fail to keep pace with the Company's growth strategy, this could affect its business performance.」
The Company continues measures to improve recruitment and retention rates through flexible working arrangements and rule changes, identifying recruitment difficulties and staff shortages as risks to business growth. - FY2025-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「The environment remained challenging due to higher procurement prices resulting from soaring raw-material and energy prices, chronic labor shortages, and weak personal consumption caused by the continued decline in real wages.」
The Company stated that the industry continues to face a chronic labor shortage, reaffirming its previous recognition of the risk of insufficient recruitment and development of human resources. - FY2024First statedAnnual report
「The Company's core prepared-foods business is labor-intensive, and it recognizes as a material management risk the decline in its competitiveness in recruiting, its inability to recruit as planned, and staff shortages caused by employee turnover. Securing human resources is becoming more difficult each year. As part of its response to this risk, the Company is working to improve its recruitment and retention rates, including by changing its rules to enable flexible working arrangements that recognize employees' diversity and individuality.」
The Company disclosed for the first time, as a separate risk that could affect business growth, the difficulty of recruiting, employee turnover and staff shortages in its labor-intensive prepared-foods business. Measures include relaxing rules on clothing and hair color.