Enhancing Cost Competitiveness and Streamlining Across the Company
First written in FY2016. 23 of 40 entries say "Restated". Latest entry: 2026-10-27.
40 other companies' latest entry also says "Advanced".
- FY2026AdvancedAnnual report
「We are advancing discussions with Dai Nippon Toryo Company,Limited on production optimisation and will promptly implement measures that benefit our company. We will upgrade supply chain management and reduce waste. We will optimise indirect functions in line with changes in the business portfolio. We will reduce costs through rationalising paint formulations and manufacturing processes and refining powder-coating production methods.」
In addition to existing fixed-cost reductions and rationalisation, the company listed production optimisation with the parent company, upgrading supply chain management, optimising indirect functions, and rationalising formulations and manufacturing processes as specific productivity-improvement measures. - FY2026-H1AdvancedAnnual report
「Against this economic backdrop, our group has worked to improve profitability through fixed-cost reductions and proactive sales activities while maintaining and strengthening its quality-control system.」
Fixed-cost reductions continued, and operating profit increased from ¥76 million in the same interim period of the previous year to ¥122 million. Cost pressures from persistently high raw-material prices remain. - FY2025AdvancedAnnual report
「Although cost pressures have continued due to persistently high raw-material prices and other factors, the improvement in margin from price revisions contributed to a ¥709 million improvement from the previous consolidated fiscal year, resulting in an operating profit of ¥230 million.」
Improved margins from selling-price revisions and rationalisation measures improved operating results from a ¥479 million loss to a ¥230 million profit. Raw-material prices remain elevated. - FY2025-H1AdvancedAnnual report
「Against this economic backdrop, our group has worked to improve profitability through product price revisions and other measures and to strengthen and enhance its quality-control system.」
The company explicitly identified improving profitability through product price revisions and strengthening and enhancing its quality-control system as initiatives, and operating results turned from a ¥389 million loss in the same period of the previous year to a ¥76 million profit. - FY2024AdvancedAnnual report
「Although efforts to correct product prices in response to soaring raw-material prices produced some results and fixed-cost reductions were advanced, the operating loss improved by ¥724 million from the previous consolidated fiscal year to ¥479 million. This reflected delays in implementing price revisions relative to the plan, failure to meet sales-volume targets due to the cancellation or suspension of public certifications, and the inclusion, as structural-reform expenses intended to improve future profitability, of reassessments of products and other items whose profitability is expected to decline.」
Product price corrections and fixed-cost reductions improved the operating loss from ¥1,203 million to ¥479 million, an improvement of ¥724 million. Delays in price revisions, shortfalls in sales volume due to public-certification issues, and structural-reform expenses remain. - FY2024-Q3AdvancedAnnual report
「Against this economic backdrop, our group has worked to improve cost competitiveness through product price increases and other measures and to improve product quality. The operating loss was ¥361 million, compared with an operating loss of ¥863 million in the same quarter of the previous year, while the ordinary loss was ¥241 million, compared with an ordinary loss of ¥815 million in the same quarter of the previous year.」
The company continued product price increases and other measures and quality-improvement efforts, reducing the operating loss and ordinary loss year on year. Cost pressures from persistently high raw-material prices remain. - FY2024-Q2AdvancedAnnual report
「Against this economic backdrop, our group has worked to improve cost competitiveness through product price increases and other measures and to improve product quality.」
The company continued its response through product price increases and other measures, and the operating loss narrowed from ¥589 million in the same quarter of the previous year to ¥389 million, aided by the contribution from selling-price revisions. Efforts to improve quality were also reiterated. - FY2024-Q1AdvancedAnnual report
「Although the selling-price revisions implemented in the previous consolidated fiscal year contributed to results, cost pressures have continued due to persistently high raw-material prices and other factors. As a result, the operating loss was ¥199 million, compared with an operating loss of ¥303 million in the same quarter of the previous year, and the ordinary loss was ¥112 million, compared with an ordinary loss of ¥233 million in the same quarter of the previous year.」
Selling-price revisions implemented in the previous consolidated fiscal year contributed to results, reducing the operating loss from ¥303 million to ¥199 million and the ordinary loss from ¥233 million to ¥112 million. However, cost pressures from persistently high raw-material prices continue. - FY2023WorsenedAnnual report
「The operating loss was ¥1,203 million, down ¥860 million from the previous consolidated fiscal year, due to soaring raw-material prices and delays in revising product prices as the company prioritised addressing quality-related misconduct.」
In addition to higher raw-material prices, prioritising the response to quality-related misconduct delayed product price revisions, causing the operating loss to widen to ¥1,203 million. - FY2023-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「In response to these circumstances, we are pursuing corrections to selling prices and other measures, as well as fixed-cost reductions including reductions in executive compensation and salaries for managerial employees, to improve earnings in response to soaring raw-material prices.」
The company continues to correct selling prices and other terms and reduce fixed costs, including reductions in executive compensation and salaries for managerial employees. No additional measures or completed results have been disclosed. - FY2023-Q2Additional fixed-cost reduction measuresAnnual report
「In response to these circumstances, we are pursuing corrections to selling prices and other measures, as well as fixed-cost reductions including reductions in executive compensation and salaries for managerial employees, to improve earnings in response to soaring raw-material prices.」
In addition to correcting selling prices and rationalising production, the company explicitly identified fixed-cost reductions, including reductions in executive compensation and salaries for managerial employees, as measures to improve earnings. - FY2023-Q1Product price increases and quality improvements explicitly statedAnnual report
「Against this economic backdrop, our group has continued its sales activities while remaining mindful of preventing the spread of COVID-19, and has worked to improve cost competitiveness through product price increases and other measures, as well as to improve product quality.」
In addition to the previous efforts to improve cost competitiveness, the company explicitly stated that it would combine product price increases and other measures with efforts to improve product quality. - FY2022RestatedAnnual report
「As a group, we will work to improve profit margins by advancing the measures described in “2. Business Overview, 1. Management Policy, Business Environment and Issues to Be Addressed, (3) Medium- to Long-Term Management Strategy” under “Part I. Business Overview.”」
The existing direction of improving profit margins through price corrections, production streamlining and the introduction of IT tools continues. - FY2022-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「In this economic environment, our Group has conducted sales activities while taking precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19, and has worked to further improve cost competitiveness.」
Even during the pandemic, the existing policy of combining sales activities with improvements in cost competitiveness continues in the same wording. - FY2022-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「In this economic environment, our Group has conducted sales activities while taking precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19, and has worked to further improve cost competitiveness.」
The policy of pursuing further improvements in cost competitiveness continues. - FY2022-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「In this economic environment, our Group has continued to conduct sales activities while taking precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19, and has worked to further improve cost competitiveness.」
The policy of pursuing further improvements in cost competitiveness continues. - FY2021-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「In this economic environment, our Group has conducted sales activities while taking precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19, and has worked to further improve cost competitiveness.」
The policy of pursuing further improvements in cost competitiveness continues even while conducting sales activities with infection prevention measures in place. - FY2021-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「In this economic environment, our Group has conducted sales activities while taking precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19, and has worked to further improve cost competitiveness.」
The policy of pursuing further improvements in cost competitiveness continues even while conducting sales activities with infection prevention measures in place. - FY2021-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「In this economic environment, our Group has conducted sales activities while taking precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19, and has worked to further improve cost competitiveness.」
Even while conducting sales activities with measures in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the policy of pursuing further improvements in cost competitiveness continues. - FY2020RestatedAnnual report
「In this economic environment, our Group has pursued active sales activities, including through the development of new products and other initiatives, while working to further improve cost competitiveness.」
The policy of combining sales activities for new products with improvements in cost competitiveness continues. - FY2020-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「In this economic environment, our Group has pursued active sales activities, including through the development of new products and other initiatives, while working to further improve cost competitiveness.」
The policy of improving cost competitiveness is reiterated, but no specific new company-wide cost reduction measures or results are stated. - FY2020-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「In this economic environment, our Group has pursued active sales activities, including through the development of new products and other initiatives, while working to further improve cost competitiveness.」
The policy of pursuing further improvements in cost competitiveness continues. No new company-wide cost reduction results are stated. - FY2020-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「In this economic environment, our Group has pursued active sales activities, including through the development of new products and other initiatives, while working to further improve cost competitiveness.」
The policy of improving cost competitiveness continues. The current quarter also cites successful price improvements, but does not state any new company-wide cost reduction results. - FY2019RestatedAnnual report
「For the next consolidated fiscal year, the fiscal year ending March 2020, raw material prices are expected to remain high, and we intend to continue taking measures such as reducing costs through greater operating efficiency.」
With raw material prices expected to remain high, the company has stated a policy of continuing cost reductions through greater operating efficiency and other measures in the following fiscal year. - FY2019-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「In this economic environment, our Group has pursued active sales activities through the development of new products and further expansion of its overseas business in the Asian market, while also working to further improve cost competitiveness.」
The policy of improving cost competitiveness continues, but no specific new cost reduction measures or results are stated. - FY2019-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「In this economic environment, our Group has pursued active sales activities through the development of new products and other initiatives and further expansion of its overseas business in the Asian market, while working to further improve cost competitiveness.」
The policy of improving cost competitiveness continues. Separately, higher raw material prices are cited as increasing the cost of sales. - FY2019-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「In this economic environment, our Group has pursued active sales activities through the development of new products and other initiatives and further expansion of its overseas business in the Asian market, while working to further improve cost competitiveness.」
The policy of pursuing further improvements in cost competitiveness continues. Rising raw material prices are separately cited as a factor affecting performance. - FY2018Making measures to address higher raw material costs more specificAnnual report
「For the next consolidated fiscal year, the fiscal year ending March 2019, raw material prices are expected to remain on an upward trend, and we intend to continue taking measures such as reducing costs through greater operating efficiency and passing higher costs through to product selling prices.」
In addition to the existing focus on improving cost competitiveness, cost reductions through greater operating efficiency and passing higher costs through to product selling prices are presented as specific measures for the following fiscal year. - FY2018-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「In this economic environment, our Group has pursued active sales activities through the development of new products and further expansion of its overseas business in the Asian market, while also working to further improve cost competitiveness.」
Further improvement in cost competitiveness is reiterated as an ongoing measure, but no specific new cost reduction results are stated. - FY2018-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「We pursued active sales activities through the development of new products and other initiatives and further expansion of our overseas business in the Asian market, while working to further improve cost competitiveness.」
The policy of improving cost competitiveness continues, but no specific new cost reduction measures or results are stated. - FY2018-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「In this economic environment, our Group has pursued active sales activities through the development of new products and further expansion of its overseas business in the Asian market, while working to further improve cost competitiveness.」
The policy of improving cost competitiveness is reiterated, but no specific new cost reduction measures or results are stated. - FY2017RestatedAnnual report
「while continuing to thoroughly pursue reductions in unprofitable products, overhead expenses, streamlining and cost reductions across all divisions, and restraint of raw material purchase prices」
Cost measures targeting unprofitable products, overhead expenses, streamlining across all divisions and raw material prices continue to be stated. - FY2017-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「In this economic environment, our Group has pursued active sales activities through the development of new products and further expansion of its overseas business in the Asian market, while also working to further improve cost competitiveness.」
Improving cost competitiveness continues to be reiterated as an ongoing measure, but no specific new reduction results are described. - FY2017-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「In this economic environment, our Group has pursued active sales activities through the development of new products and further expansion of its overseas business in the Asian market, while also working to further improve cost competitiveness.」
Improving cost competitiveness continues to be reiterated as an ongoing measure, but no specific new cost reduction results are described. - FY2017-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「We have worked to achieve further improvements in cost competitiveness.」
The policy of improving cost competitiveness continues to be reiterated, but no new specific results are stated. - FY2016First statedAnnual report
「while continuing to thoroughly pursue reductions in overhead expenses, streamlining and cost reductions across all divisions, and restraint of raw material purchase prices」
Cost measures targeting overhead expenses, streamlining across all divisions and raw material purchase prices are explicitly stated.