Business interruption due to natural disasters, power outages and infectious diseases
First written in FY2016. 8 of 14 entries say "Restated". Latest entry: FY2025.
The whole theme swung hardest in 2020: 69 of 112 companies on the "Worse" side.
- FY2025RestatedAnnual report
「The Group is developing and embedding business continuity plans (BCPs) and business continuity management (BCM) activities for each major business so that its production sites can promptly resume production in an emergency. Similarly, it has established BCPs for sales and head-office staff functions and maintains preparations to prevent the Group's overall operations from coming to a halt.」
BCP and BCM frameworks covering major businesses, sales and head-office functions have continued in response to business interruption caused by natural disasters and infectious diseases. - FY2024RestatedAnnual report
「With regard to the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19-related restrictions have been lifted or eased worldwide. Going forward, as living with COVID-19 becomes established, the Group will maintain its normal infection-control framework at each business site and implement the infection-prevention framework developed through its COVID-19 response in the event of a cluster.」
With regard to infectious disease risk, the policy of maintaining normal infection-control measures and a framework for responding to clusters has continued even after restrictions were lifted or eased. - FY2023SoftenedAnnual report
「With regard to the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19-related restrictions have been lifted or eased worldwide. Going forward, as living with COVID-19 becomes established, the Group will maintain its normal infection-control framework at each business site and implement the infection-prevention framework developed through its COVID-19 response in the event of a cluster.」
With regard to infectious disease risk, the lifting and easing of restrictions in various countries and the transition to living with COVID-19 were reported, and a policy of maintaining normal infection-control measures was established. - FY2022-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「However, infections with the novel coronavirus disease began to spread again during the third quarter of the current consolidated fiscal period, and an impact on the manufacturing sector was observed.」
The impact of renewed infections on the manufacturing sector has continued, reaffirming the risk of business interruption and production restrictions caused by infectious diseases. - FY2022-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「Meanwhile, the impact of renewed infections was also seen in the manufacturing sector, as Southeast Asian countries implemented strict measures such as lockdowns.」
While lockdowns caused by renewed infections and their impact on the manufacturing sector continued, the recovery of production activity, mainly in developed countries, was also reported. - FY2021MitigatedAnnual report
「To enable the rapid resumption of production in an emergency, the Group is developing and embedding BCP (business continuity plan) and BCM (business continuity management) systems for each of its core businesses.」
Specific measures have been established to address the risk of business interruption caused by infectious diseases and natural disasters, including business-specific BCPs, BCM, real-time information sharing, a crisis management headquarters, zoning and remote work. - FY2021-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「However, there is still no clear prospect of containing COVID-19, and the possibility remains that our business results could be significantly affected by a further spread of infections delaying the economic recovery, the closure of our facilities or disruption of our supply chain.」
It was stated that the risk of facility closures and production interruptions due to infectious diseases remains. - FY2021-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「During the second quarter of the current consolidated fiscal period, the number of COVID-19 cases showed signs of rising again and uncertainty about the outlook persisted. However, socioeconomic activity gradually resumed worldwide, and production activity, which had been significantly restricted by measures to prevent the spread of infection, also began to recover.」
While the risk of business interruption and production restrictions due to infectious diseases remains, a trend toward recovery in production activity was also reported. - FY2021-Q1WorsenedAnnual report
「The electronics market, which affects our consolidated results, was also significantly affected, and production volumes for automobiles, smartphones, HDDs (hard disk drives) and other products fell substantially below the level of the same period of the previous year.」
The economic impact of the spread of infectious diseases affected the electronics market, and production volumes for automobiles, smartphones, HDDs and other products fell substantially below the level of the same period of the previous year. - FY2020WorsenedAnnual report
「We estimate that, due to the spread of COVID-19, revenue was affected by approximately △¥28 billion and operating profit by approximately △¥12 billion in the fourth quarter of the fiscal year under review, as a result of factory shutdowns, shipment suspensions and other factors.」
Business interruption due to infectious diseases had previously been described as a possibility, but the impact of factory and shipment suspensions caused by COVID-19 was quantified as approximately ¥28 billion in revenue and approximately ¥12 billion in operating profit. - FY2020-Q3MaterialisedAnnual report
「In addition, pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus, which emerged in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, in December 2019, has spread throughout China, Japan and countries around the world. As a result, since January 2020, customer orders, operations at our production sites and our supply chain have been affected, but at this point it is difficult to reasonably predict the impact.」
Previously, business interruption due to unknown infectious diseases had been described as a possibility, but it was stated that the novel coronavirus had in fact affected customer orders, operations at production sites and the supply chain. - FY2019RestatedAnnual report
「At each facility, we have implemented disaster prevention and infection control measures for unforeseen natural disasters and outbreaks of infectious diseases, and installed in-house power generation facilities to address power shortages. However, there is a possibility of significant damage from large-scale earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons, floods and volcanic eruptions or other natural disasters exceeding the assumptions of our BCP (business continuity plan), as well as large-scale power outages, power shortages caused by such disasters, and unknown infectious diseases such as novel influenza.」
The risk of business interruption due to natural disasters, power outages and infectious diseases, and the responses through disaster prevention, infection control, in-house power generation and BCP, were reconfirmed. - FY2018RestatedAnnual report
「At each facility, we have implemented disaster prevention and infection control measures for unforeseen natural disasters and outbreaks of infectious diseases, and installed in-house power generation facilities to address power shortages. However, there is a possibility of significant damage from large-scale earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons, floods and volcanic eruptions or other natural disasters far exceeding the assumptions of our BCP (business continuity plan), as well as large-scale power outages, power shortages caused by such disasters, and unknown infectious diseases such as novel influenza.」
The risk of business interruption due to natural disasters, power outages and infectious diseases, and the responses through disaster prevention, infection control, in-house power generation and BCP, have been reconfirmed. - FY2016First statedAnnual report
「There is a possibility of significant damage from large-scale earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons, floods and volcanic eruptions or other natural disasters far exceeding the assumptions of our BCP (business continuity plan), as well as large-scale power outages, power shortages caused by such disasters, and unknown infectious diseases such as novel influenza.」
The assumptions include production interruptions, disruptions to transportation and information and communications infrastructure, and supply stagnation resulting from customer damage.