Optimal Balance Among the 3 Core Businesses and Stable Growth
First written in FY2021. 2 of 4 entries say "Reframed", first in FY2025. Latest entry: FY2026.
Kitagawa moved to the "Worse" side of this theme in 2025, the same year as the typical company in this theme.
27 other companies' latest entry also says "Restated".
- FY2026RestatedAnnual report
「既存事業のポートフォリオを見直すとともに、新事業分野の創出およびM&Aの戦略的活用により、成長領域への事業展開を加速させ、事業構造の再構築を図ってまいります。」
4事業を前提に、既存事業のポートフォリオ見直し、新事業創出、M&Aによる成長領域への展開という事業構造転換を継続している。 - 2026-05-13ReframedEarnings
「Centered on the next fiscal year's basic management policy of selection and concentration, the Company will decisively expand products into growth industries and review its product strategy, vigorously promote appropriate pricing in low-profitability businesses and shift resources to high-value-added operations, and pursue fundamental improvements in quality, costs and delivery times through advances in FX (factory transformation) and DX.」
Broadens the description of business portfolio optimization beyond the three-business and four-business structure discussions to focus on selection and concentration, appropriate pricing in low-profitability businesses, and shifting to high-value-added operations. - FY2025ReframedAnnual report
「主として工作機器事業・産業機械事業・金属素形材事業・半導体関連事業の４事業を行っておりますが、これら既存事業のバランスを見直し、新事業分野やM&Aによる新領域への事業展開を推進することで事業ポートフォリオの再構築を図ります。」
従来の3つの中核事業の最適バランスという構成から、半導体関連事業を加えた4事業を前提に、既存事業のバランス見直しと新事業・M&Aによるポートフォリオ再構築へ表現が変化している。 - FY2021First statedAnnual report
「Going forward, we aim to achieve stable growth in our three core businesses while maintaining an optimal balance by making appropriate investments in Kitagawa Sun Tech Company, the industrial machinery business, and Kitagawa Global Hand Company, the machine-tools business, as well.」
The Company first explicitly stated its aim of balancing and achieving stable growth in its three core businesses by revisiting capital expenditure concentrated in the metal-forming business and investing appropriately in industrial machinery and machine tools.