Securing and retaining sufficient, high-quality personnel amid store expansion
First written in FY2016. 14 of 27 entries say "Restated". Latest entry: FY2027-H1.
Choushimaru moved to the "Worse" side of this theme in 2022, 2 years before the typical company in this theme (2024).
The whole theme swung hardest in 2020: 8 of 26 companies on the "Worse" side.
24 other companies' latest entry also says "Restated".
- FY2027-H1RestatedAnnual report
「The operating environment remains challenging, with soaring raw material and energy prices, labor shortages and rising personnel expenses, and increasingly cautious consumer spending due to declining real wages.」
We continue to cite personnel-related challenges arising from labor shortages and rising personnel expenses, along with higher raw material and other costs and increasingly cautious consumer spending. - FY2026WorsenedAnnual report
「The labour market has tightened due to the recent decline in the working-age population, increasing upward pressure on wages to secure high-quality personnel. If labour costs rise sharply in the future, this may affect the Company's business performance.」
Regarding the risks of labour shortages and rising labour costs, the Company explicitly identifies a tight labour market resulting from the decline in the working-age population and the possibility of a sharp increase in labour costs. - FY2026-H1RestatedAnnual report
「The company has advanced human resources initiatives, including strengthening new-graduate and mid-career recruitment, developing a career development program and a new evaluation system, and establishing an environment that promotes women’s participation.」
The Company continues to advance initiatives relating to the securing, development and retention of personnel. - FY2025MaterialisedAnnual report
「Selling, general and administrative expenses amounted to ¥9,620 million, due in part to higher salaries and allowances resulting from a uniform ¥30,000 base-pay increase.」
The increase in labour costs accompanying improvements in employment conditions to secure and retain personnel is reflected in actual results as a factor driving higher selling, general and administrative expenses. - FY2025-H1RestatedAnnual report
「The difficult operating environment continues, including soaring raw material and energy prices, labour shortages and rising labour costs, and a growing consumer tendency to economise due to higher prices.」
The Company continues to identify personnel-related challenges arising from labour shortages and rising labour costs as factors contributing to the difficult operating environment. - FY2024WorsenedAnnual report
「As the economy has recovered with the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, the labour market has tightened and upward pressure on wages to secure high-quality personnel has increased.」
Regarding the risk of securing personnel, the Company continues to explicitly identify a tight labour market and increasing upward pressure on wages following the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. - FY2024-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「Meanwhile, amid tight employment conditions and rising labour costs, from the standpoint of making effective use of limited human resources and building a more efficient store network」
The Company continues to identify challenges in securing and using personnel against a backdrop of tight employment conditions and rising labour costs, linking these challenges to the construction of a more efficient store network through store closures. - FY2024-Q1MaterialisedAnnual report
「Meanwhile, from the standpoint of making effective use of limited human resources and improving operating efficiency, the Company closed 「すし銚子丸南浦和店」 in June 2023, 「同 三鷹店」 in July of the same year, and 「同 浦和木崎店」 in July of the same year.」
The need to address limited human resources has taken concrete form in decisions to close stores. - FY2023WorsenedAnnual report
「As the economy has recovered with the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, the labour market has tightened and upward pressure on wages to secure high-quality personnel has increased.」
Regarding the previously identified challenges of labour shortages and rising labour costs, the Company explicitly states that the labour market has tightened and upward pressure on wages has increased following the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. In terms of actual results, salaries and allowances increased by ¥216 million year on year. - FY2022MaterialisedAnnual report
「Meanwhile, the difficult operating environment continued, with raw material prices and logistics costs soaring and labour costs increasing due to staff shortages.」
Regarding the previously identified risk concerning the securing of personnel, the Company states that staff shortages actually became a factor affecting business performance through higher labour costs. - FY2020RestatedAnnual report
「To secure a stable supply of high-quality personnel as a corporate asset, bring them up to full productivity quickly, and improve retention, we recognise the increase in labour costs accompanying improvements in the working environment through the promotion of work-style reform and improvements in employment conditions through a review of the salary structure as an essential cost of building the business foundation for future growth, and will continue to pursue these initiatives.」
The Company continues to identify securing, developing and retaining personnel, and the labour costs associated with work-style reform and improvements in employment conditions, as business-foundation challenges. - FY2020-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「Trend toward rising labour costs to secure personnel」
The Company has reaffirmed rising labour costs to secure personnel as a personnel-related operating-environment challenge. - FY2020-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「Trend toward rising labour costs to secure personnel」
The Company continues to identify rising labour costs to secure personnel as an operating-environment challenge in the food-service industry. - FY2020-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「Worsening labour shortages and rising labour costs to secure personnel」
The Company has reaffirmed the personnel risk of worsening labour shortages and rising labour costs to secure personnel. - FY2019ReframedAnnual report
「To secure a stable supply of high-quality personnel as a corporate asset, bring them up to full productivity quickly, and improve retention, we recognise the increase in labour costs accompanying improvements in the working environment through the promotion of work-style reform and improvements in employment conditions through a review of the salary structure as an essential cost of building the business foundation for future growth, and will continue to pursue these initiatives.」
The Company positions rising labour costs not simply as a cost issue, but as an essential cost of securing personnel through work-style reform and improvements in employment conditions. - FY2019-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「Worsening labour shortages and rising labour costs due to competition for personnel」
The Company has reaffirmed the personnel risks of worsening labour shortages, competition for personnel, and rising labour costs. - FY2019-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「Worsening labour shortages and rising labour costs to secure personnel」
The Company has reaffirmed the existing personnel risk of worsening labour shortages and rising labour costs to secure personnel. - FY2019-Q1WorsenedAnnual report
「Worsening labour shortages and rising labour costs to secure personnel」
Regarding the previously identified challenge of securing personnel, the Company explicitly states that worsening labour shortages and rising labour costs have occurred. - FY2018MaterialisedAnnual report
「Delays in new store openings due to staff shortages at stores」
The Company identifies staff shortages at stores leading to delays in new store openings as a factor affecting full-year business performance. - FY2018-Q3MaterialisedAnnual report
「Delays in new store openings due to staff shortages at stores」
The Company continues to state that staff shortages at stores led to delays in new store openings. - FY2018-Q2MaterialisedAnnual report
「Due in part to staff shortages at stores, which delayed new store openings」
Although securing personnel had been identified as a risk and challenge, staff shortages at stores actually led to delays in new store openings. - FY2018-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「In the dining-out industry, the upward trend in purchase prices has continued unabated amid a broad-based sense of shortages of food ingredients, while securing personnel amid tight labor supply and demand has become a serious challenge, and the operating environment has remained difficult.」
The Company continues to identify tight labour supply and demand and challenges in securing personnel as important matters in the operating environment. - FY2017RestatedAnnual report
「The Company considers securing and developing sufficient, high-quality personnel to support the expansion of its operations and organisation accompanying an increase in the number of stores and other factors to be an important issue.」
The Company has reaffirmed securing and developing sufficient, high-quality personnel to support store expansion as an important issue. - FY2017-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「Rising labour costs due to tight labour supply and demand, and securing personnel, will be major challenges.」
The Company continues to identify rising labour costs and challenges in securing personnel. - FY2017-Q2WorsenedAnnual report
「Rising labour costs due to tight labour supply and demand, and securing personnel, will be major challenges.」
Tight labour supply and demand, higher unit labour costs, and challenges in securing personnel are identified as factors contributing to a more difficult operating environment. - FY2017-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「The food-service industry continues to face a challenging operating environment, including competition to attract customers from other industries and formats, rising labour costs amid tight labour demand and difficulties securing personnel.」
Tight labour supply and demand, rising labour costs, and challenges in securing personnel continue to be identified. - FY2016First statedAnnual report
「The Company considers securing and developing sufficient, high-quality personnel to support organisational expansion accompanying growth in the scale of operations, including an increase in the number of stores, to be an important issue.」
The Company indicates that an increase in employee departures and insufficient recruitment and development of personnel responsible for new store openings may affect business performance.