Competition for customers in a mature foodservice market and against prepared-meal and convenience-store businesses
First written in FY2016. 7 of 10 entries say "Restated". Latest entry: FY2023.
The whole theme swung hardest in 2020: 33 of 49 companies on the "Worse" side.
31 other companies' latest entry also says "Restated".
- FY2023RestatedAnnual report
「The food-service industry has become a mature market, and the operating environment remains challenging due to more selective consumer spending and intensifying competition for customers across industries, including from the ready-to-eat food and convenience-store sectors.」
It identifies the mature market, more selective consumer spending and intensifying competition with ready-to-eat food, convenience stores and other sectors as ongoing market-environment risks. - FY2021RestatedAnnual report
「The food-service industry has become a mature market, and the operating environment remains challenging due to more selective consumer spending and intensifying competition for customers across industries, including from the ready-to-eat food and convenience-store sectors.」
It identifies the mature market, more selective consumer spending and intensifying competition with ready-to-eat food, convenience stores and other sectors as ongoing market-environment risks. - FY2019Adds declining birthrates and an aging population as a market-environment factorAnnual report
「In the food-service industry in which we operate, the challenging operating environment continues due to declining birthrates and an aging population, increasingly diverse customer preferences, and intensifying competition among companies across industries and business formats.」
In addition to the previously cited market maturity, diverse consumer preferences and cross-industry competition, it identifies declining birthrates and an aging population as factors contributing to the food-service industry's challenging environment. - FY2019-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「Even excluding temporary factors such as adverse weather and natural disasters, the industry as a whole remains somewhat lacking in strength.」
It reiterates the recognition that, even excluding adverse weather and natural disasters, the food-service industry as a whole remains lacking in strength. - FY2019-Q2Also notes the lack of strength across the industryAnnual report
「Even excluding temporary factors such as adverse weather and natural disasters, the industry as a whole remains somewhat lacking in strength.」
It states that, even excluding adverse weather and natural disasters, the food-service industry as a whole remains lacking in strength. - FY2017RestatedAnnual report
「The food-service industry has become a mature market, and the operating environment remains challenging due to more selective consumer spending and intensifying competition for customers across industries, including from the ready-to-eat food and convenience-store sectors.」
It identifies the mature food-service market, more selective consumer spending and competition for customers with ready-to-eat food, convenience stores and other sectors as ongoing risks. - FY2017-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「In the food-service industry, the operating environment remains challenging due to rising labor-related and other costs, higher raw-material prices caused by concerns over weather conditions, changes in demand patterns resulting from increasingly diverse consumer preferences, and intensifying competition among companies across industries and business formats.」
It describes changes in market dynamics resulting from increasingly diverse consumer preferences and intensifying competition among companies across industries and business formats as a continuing challenge in the food-service industry's operating environment. - FY2017-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「In the food-service industry, the operating environment remains challenging due to rising labor-related and other costs accompanying the economic recovery, higher raw-material prices caused by concerns over weather conditions, changes in demand patterns resulting from increasingly diverse consumer preferences, and intensifying competition among companies across industries and business formats.」
It describes changes in market dynamics resulting from increasingly diverse consumer preferences and intensifying competition among companies across industries and business formats as a continuing challenge in the food-service industry's operating environment. - FY2017-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「In the food-service industry, the operating environment remains challenging due to rising labor-related and other costs accompanying the economic recovery, higher raw-material prices caused by concerns over weather conditions, changes in demand patterns resulting from increasingly diverse consumer preferences, and intensifying competition among companies across industries and business formats.」
It describes changes in market dynamics resulting from increasingly diverse consumer preferences and intensifying competition among companies across industries and business formats as a continuing challenge in the food-service industry's operating environment. - FY2016First statedAnnual report
「The food-service industry has become a mature market, and the operating environment remains challenging due to more selective consumer spending and intensifying competition for customers across industries, including from the ready-to-eat food and convenience-store sectors.」
It identifies market maturity, more selective consumer spending and intensifying cross-industry competition as business-environment risks.