Declining Birthrate, Aging Population, and Shrinking Regional Markets
First written in FY2018. 6 of 8 entries say "Restated". Latest entry: FY2026.
The whole theme swung hardest in 2023: 10 of 30 companies on the "Worse" side.
38 other companies' latest entry also says "Restated".
- FY2026RestatedAnnual report
「The group also has subsidiaries based in regional areas, but has established a structure to mitigate the impact through mutual complementation, including by leveraging the group’s nationwide sales channels. It is also developing the market for older consumers, including by promoting product development for them.」
The company continues to explain that mutual complementation through nationwide sales channels and product development for older consumers are its responses to population decline and contraction of regional markets. - FY2025RestatedAnnual report
「The population in Japan is currently declining and ageing rapidly as a result of the declining birth rate and ageing population. Companies based in regional areas in particular are being affected by market contraction resulting from the population decline. The group also has subsidiaries based in regional areas, but has established a structure to mitigate the impact through mutual complementation, including by leveraging the group’s nationwide sales channels.」
The company continues to describe the risk of regional market contraction resulting from the declining birth rate, ageing population and population decline, together with its response through mutual complementation using nationwide sales channels and development of the market for older consumers. - FY2023RestatedAnnual report
「The group also has subsidiaries based in regional areas. However, it is able to mitigate the impact through mutual complementation, including by leveraging the group’s nationwide sales channels, and is also developing the market for older consumers, including by developing products for them.」
The company continues to explain that mutual complementation through nationwide sales channels and product development for older consumers are its responses to the risks of the declining birth rate, ageing population and contraction of regional markets. - FY2021RestatedAnnual report
「In Japan, the population is currently declining and ageing rapidly as a result of the declining birth rate and ageing population. Companies based in regional areas in particular are being affected by market contraction resulting from the population decline. The group also has subsidiaries based in regional areas. However, it is able to mitigate the impact through mutual complementation, including by leveraging the group’s nationwide sales channels, and is also developing the market for older consumers, including by developing products for them.」
The company continues to describe the risks of population decline and contraction of regional markets, together with its response through nationwide sales channels and product development for older consumers. - FY2020RestatedAnnual report
「In Japan, the population is currently declining rapidly and ageing rapidly as a result of the declining birth rate and ageing population. Companies based in regional areas in particular are being affected by market contraction resulting from the population decline. The group also has subsidiaries based in regional areas. However, it is able to mitigate the impact through mutual complementation, including by leveraging the group’s nationwide sales channels, and is also developing the market for older consumers, including by developing products for them.」
The company continues to describe the risks of population decline and contraction of regional markets, together with its response through mutual complementation using nationwide sales channels and product development for older consumers. - FY2020-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「Many challenges have accumulated, including rising labor costs due to hiring difficulties and other factors and business succession issues resulting from the aging of business owners.」
The company continues to identify the issue of business succession in the food industry, together with difficulties in recruitment and rising labour costs, as an ongoing challenge. - FY2019MitigatedAnnual report
「The group also has subsidiaries based in regional areas. However, it is able to mitigate the impact through mutual complementation, including by leveraging the group’s nationwide sales channels, and is also developing the market for older consumers, including by developing products for them.」
In response to the risk of contraction in regional markets, the company specifically identifies mutual complementation through nationwide sales channels and product development for older consumers as countermeasures. - FY2018First statedAnnual report
「In Japan, the population is currently declining rapidly and ageing rapidly as a result of the declining birth rate and ageing population. Companies based in regional areas in particular are being affected by market contraction resulting from the population decline.」
For the first time, the company separately identifies the risk that the declining birth rate, ageing population and population decline will lead to market contraction for companies based in regional areas.