Higher Labor Costs Due to Hiring Difficulties
First written in FY2019-Q1. 7 of 12 entries say "Restated". Latest entry: FY2027-H1.
Yoshimura Food Holdings K.K. moved to the "Worse" side of this theme in 2022, 2 years after the typical company in this theme (2020).
The whole theme swung hardest in 2025: 36 of 59 companies on the "Worse" side.
25 other companies' latest entry also says "Worsened".
- FY2027-H1WorsenedAnnual report
「In Japan's food industry, the operating environment became challenging as raw material prices remained high and costs for packaging materials, energy, logistics and labor continued to rise.」
Labor costs continued to rise along with packaging-material, energy and logistics costs. - FY2025WorsenedAnnual report
「As structural issues such as high logistics and labor costs and increasing difficulty securing labor have become apparent, in addition to persistently high raw material and energy prices, consumer thrift is also expected to intensify, and difficult conditions are expected to continue.」
In addition to conventional soaring labor costs, it explicitly identifies increasing difficulty securing labor as a structural issue. - FY2023-Q2MaterialisedAnnual report
「Although sales at the overseas sales subsidiary were trending toward recovery, higher prices for some raw materials resulted in higher revenue but lower profit.」
Higher raw material prices actually reduced profit at the overseas sales subsidiary, resulting in higher revenue but lower profit. - FY2023-Q1MaterialisedAnnual report
「In the overseas business, sales exceeded the same period of the previous fiscal year as restrictions related to COVID-19 were eased, but profit fell below the previous year's level because raw material prices, logistics costs and labor costs rose more than expected.」
Soaring labor costs actually occurred and are cited as a factor that reduced profit from overseas operations year on year. - FY2020RestatedAnnual 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.」
It continues to identify soaring labor costs due to difficulties in hiring as an issue facing the food industry, alongside business succession problems and other issues. - 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.」
It reiterates soaring labor costs due to difficulties in hiring as an ongoing issue for the food industry. - FY2020-Q2RestatedAnnual 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.」
It reiterates soaring labor costs due to difficulties in hiring and other factors as an ongoing issue for the food industry. - FY2020-Q1RestatedAnnual 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.」
It reiterates soaring labor costs due to difficulties in hiring and other factors as an ongoing issue for the food industry. - FY2019RestatedAnnual report
「In addition to growing public concern about food safety and security, many challenges have accumulated, including rising logistics costs, higher labor costs due to hiring difficulties and other factors, and business succession issues resulting from the aging of business owners.」
It cites soaring labor costs due to difficulties in hiring and other factors as an ongoing issue for the food industry, alongside rising logistics costs and business succession problems. - FY2019-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「In addition to growing public concern about food safety and security, many challenges have accumulated, including rising labor costs due to hiring difficulties and business succession issues resulting from the aging of business owners.」
It reiterates soaring labor costs due to difficulties in hiring as an ongoing issue for the food industry. - FY2019-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「In addition to growing public concern about food safety and security, many challenges have accumulated, including rising labor costs due to hiring difficulties and business succession issues resulting from the aging of business owners.」
It reiterates soaring labor costs due to difficulties in hiring as an ongoing issue for the food industry. - FY2019-Q1First statedAnnual report
「In addition to growing public concern about food safety and security, many challenges have accumulated, including rising labor costs due to hiring difficulties and business succession issues resulting from the aging of business owners.」
It identifies soaring labor costs caused by difficulties in hiring as an issue facing the food industry for the first time.