Intensifying competition among companies across industries and business formats
First written in FY2017-Q1. 17 of 32 entries say "Restated". Latest entry: 2026-10-30.
G-7 Holdings moved to the "Worse" side of this theme in 2020, 2 years before the typical company in this theme (2022).
The whole theme swung hardest in 2026: 22 of 42 companies on the "Worse" side.
42 other companies' latest entry also says "Restated".
- FY2026RestatedAnnual report
「The retail industry continues to face a challenging business environment, including higher costs such as procurement prices, a deterioration in consumer sentiment due to continued price increases, and intensifying competition across industries and business formats.」
The company reconfirms the challenging retail environment, involving higher costs, a deterioration in consumer sentiment due to rising prices, and intensifying competition across industries and business formats. - FY2026-H1RestatedAnnual report
「The retail industry continues to face a challenging business environment, as continued price increases affect personal consumption through a deterioration in consumer sentiment, while competition intensifies across industries and business formats.」
The company reconfirms the challenging retail environment, marked by the impact of rising prices on personal consumption and continued intensifying competition across industries and business formats. - FY2025RestatedAnnual report
「The retail industry continues to face a challenging business environment, including rising costs such as raw materials and labor, as well as concerns that continued price increases will further strengthen consumers' cost-consciousness.」
The company reconfirms the challenging retail environment, including cost-consciousness driven by rising prices, higher costs, and intensifying competition across industries and business formats. - FY2025-H1RestatedAnnual report
「The business environment remains challenging, with concerns that rising prices will strengthen consumers' cost-consciousness and competition will intensify across industries and business formats.」
The company reconfirms the challenging retail environment, marked by concerns that rising prices will strengthen cost-consciousness and by continued intensifying competition across industries and business formats. - FY2024-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「The retail industry continues to face a challenging business environment, as consumers' cost-consciousness and preference for low prices have strengthened further amid continued price increases for daily necessities and a decline in real wages, while costs including raw materials, logistics, utilities, and labor have broadly increased.」
The company continues to describe a challenging retail environment involving declining real wages, consumers' cost-consciousness and preference for low prices, and higher costs for raw materials, logistics, utilities, labor, and other items. - FY2024-Q1WorsenedAnnual report
「The retail industry continues to face a challenging business environment, as consumers' cost-consciousness and preference for low prices have strengthened further amid widespread price increases for products and services and a continued decline in real wages, while operating costs have broadly increased, led by a substantial rise in energy costs such as electricity rates.」
In addition to the previously cited price increases, competition, and cost-consciousness, the company identifies declining real wages, a further strengthening of the preference for low prices, and higher operating costs. - FY2023RestatedAnnual report
「The retail industry continues to face a challenging business environment, with concerns that personal consumption will weaken due to repeated price increases for daily necessities and other products, in addition to higher electricity rates and soaring raw material prices.」
The company continues to cite, for the full fiscal year, soaring energy and raw material prices and weaker personal consumption due to repeated price increases as factors behind the challenging retail environment. - FY2023-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「The retail industry continues to face a challenging business environment, as repeated price increases across a wide range of products due to rising energy and raw material prices may further stagnate personal consumption while restrictions on activities related to COVID-19 are eased.」
The company continues to describe a challenging retail environment, including concerns that repeated product price increases will cause personal consumption to stagnate even after restrictions on activities are eased. - FY2023-Q2ReframedAnnual report
「The retail industry continues to face a challenging business environment, as repeated price increases across a wide range of products due to rising energy and raw material prices may further stagnate personal consumption while restrictions on activities related to COVID-19 are eased.」
The focus regarding the challenging competitive and consumer environment in the retail industry has shifted to concerns that price increases driven by higher energy and raw material prices will cause personal consumption to stagnate. - FY2023-Q1ReframedAnnual report
「The retail industry continues to face a challenging business environment, as repeated price increases driven by rising energy prices and logistics costs may strengthen consumers' cost-consciousness while the severe impact of COVID-19 eases.」
The company indicates that repeated price increases driven by rising energy prices and logistics costs could strengthen consumers' cost-consciousness, in addition to the previously cited intensifying competition and changes in lifestyles. - FY2022WorsenedAnnual report
「The retail industry continues to face a challenging business environment, with changes in consumers' lifestyles and diversification of sales channels due to the impact of COVID-19, intensifying competition among companies across industries and business formats, and rising energy and raw material prices.」
Rising energy and raw material prices have been added as a factor in the challenging retail environment, alongside changes in lifestyles, diversification of sales channels, and intensifying competition. - FY2022-Q3ReframedAnnual report
「The retail industry continues to face a challenging business environment, as stay-at-home demand during the COVID-19 pandemic in the previous year has run its course, while consumers' lifestyles have changed due to the impact of COVID-19, sales channels have diversified, and competition among companies across industries and business formats continues.」
The company organizes the end of stay-at-home demand, changes in lifestyles, diversification of sales channels, and competition across industries and business formats as factors contributing to the challenging retail environment. - FY2022-Q2ReframedAnnual report
「The retail industry continues to face a challenging business environment, as stay-at-home demand during the COVID-19 pandemic in the previous year has run its course, while consumers' lifestyles have changed due to the impact of COVID-19 and personal consumption has been restrained under the state of emergency.」
Regarding the challenging retail environment, the focus has shifted from the previously cited intensifying competition and cost-consciousness to the end of stay-at-home demand, changes in lifestyles, and restrained personal consumption under the state of emergency. - FY2022-Q1WorsenedAnnual report
「The retail industry continues to face an uncertain and challenging business environment, as the decline in stay-at-home demand following the previous year's restrictions on going out and remote work has emerged, alongside changes in consumers' lifestyles and stronger cost-consciousness due to the impact of COVID-19.」
In addition to the previously cited intensifying competition and cost-consciousness, the company identifies the decline in stay-at-home demand, changes in lifestyles, and stronger cost-consciousness as factors worsening the retail environment. Risks related to competition and consumer conditions have materialized in the actual business environment. - FY2021RestatedAnnual report
「In the Group's Gyomu Super and fresh meat businesses, the policy is to improve performance by opening stores based on market trends in each region. However, competition with other companies in the same industry and other factors could affect the Group's performance through a decline in customer traffic and lower sales per customer.」
The company continues to identify the possibility of lower customer traffic and sales per customer due to competition as risks for the Gyomu Super and fresh meat businesses. - FY2020ReframedAnnual report
「The retail industry is facing an increasingly challenging business environment due to consumers' deep-rooted cost-consciousness, the diversification of sales channels caused by changes in lifestyles, worsening labor shortages, the impact of the consumption tax increase, and requests for consumers to refrain from going out amid the spread of COVID-19.」
Restrictions on going out accompanying the spread of the infectious disease have been added as a factor worsening the retail environment, in addition to cost-consciousness, diversification of sales channels, labor shortages, and the consumption tax increase. - FY2020-Q3ReframedAnnual report
「The retail industry continues to face a challenging business environment, including consumers' deep-rooted cost-consciousness, the diversification of sales channels due to changes in lifestyles, difficulty securing personnel amid labor shortages, and the decline in rush demand following the October consumption tax increase.」
The decline in rush demand following the consumption tax increase has been newly identified as a factor, in addition to the previously cited cost-consciousness, diversification of sales channels, and difficulty securing personnel. - FY2020-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「The retail industry continues to face a challenging business environment, including consumers' deep-rooted cost-consciousness, the diversification of sales channels due to changes in lifestyles, competition among companies across industries and business formats, and difficulty securing personnel amid labor shortages.」
The company continues to describe the challenging retail environment caused by cost-consciousness, diversification of sales channels, and intensifying competition across industries and business formats. - FY2020-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「The retail industry continues to face a challenging business environment, including consumers' deep-rooted cost-consciousness, the diversification of sales channels due to changes in lifestyles, intensifying competition across industries and business formats, and difficulty securing personnel amid labor shortages.」
The company continues to describe the challenging retail environment caused by cost-consciousness, diversification of sales channels, and intensifying competition across industries and business formats. - FY2019-Q3ReframedAnnual report
「The retail industry continues to face a challenging business environment, including consumers' deep-rooted cost-consciousness, the diversification of sales channels due to changes in lifestyles, competition for customers across industries and business formats, and difficulty securing personnel amid labor shortages.」
In addition to the previously cited cost-consciousness, diversification of sales channels, and competition for customers, labor shortages are now identified as a factor behind the difficulty securing personnel. - FY2019-Q2ReframedAnnual report
「In the retail industry, the difficult business environment continued as consumers’ deep-seated inclination to economize and the diversification of sales channels resulting from lifestyle changes persisted, alongside competition to attract customers across industries and business formats and difficulty securing personnel.」
As a factor behind intensifying competition, the company has newly identified the diversification of sales channels due to changes in lifestyles, alongside consumers' cost-consciousness, competition for customers, and difficulty securing personnel. - FY2019-Q1WorsenedAnnual report
「In the retail industry, consumers’ deep-seated inclination to economize continued. Although the average spend per customer increased due to price increases, the difficult business environment continued due to a decline in customer traffic, competition to attract customers across industry and business-format boundaries, and difficulty securing personnel.」
In addition to the previously cited intensifying competition and inclination to economize, the decline in customer traffic associated with price increases and competition to attract customers across industries and business formats are explicitly cited. - FY2018WorsenedAnnual report
「Although personal consumption showed signs of improvement, competition among companies across industry and business-format boundaries intensified further, and the persistently difficult business environment is expected to continue.」
While personal consumption showed signs of improvement, competition across industries and business formats is described as intensifying further. - FY2018-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「In the retail industry, personal consumption showed a gradual recovery trend, including signs of a recovery. However, the business environment surrounding the Group remained difficult due to competition among companies across industry and business-format boundaries and difficulty securing personnel.」
While personal consumption showed a recovery trend, the persistently difficult retail environment, characterized by continued intensification of competition across industries and business formats, is reaffirmed. - FY2018-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「In the retail industry, personal consumption showed a gradual recovery trend. However, the persistently difficult business environment continued due to competition among companies across industry and business-format boundaries and difficulty securing personnel.」
While personal consumption showed signs of recovery, the persistently difficult retail environment, characterized by continued intensification of competition across industries and business formats, is reaffirmed. - FY2018-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「In the retail industry, the difficult business environment continued as consumers remained inclined to economize, competition among companies across industry and business-format boundaries continued, and it became difficult to secure personnel.」
The persistently difficult retail environment, characterized by consumers’ inclination to economize and continued competition among companies across industries and business formats, is reaffirmed. - FY2017WorsenedAnnual report
「Meanwhile, in the retail industry, consumers’ willingness to purchase showed a declining trend amid concerns about the future of social security and other matters, while competition across industry boundaries intensified further, and the persistently difficult business environment is expected to continue.」
The assessment has moved from flat personal consumption and intensifying competition to explicitly citing a declining willingness to purchase and further intensification of competition. - FY2017-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「In the retail industry, the growth rate of personal consumption remained flat, while competition among companies across industry and business-format boundaries intensified, and the difficult business environment continued.」
Flat personal consumption and intensifying competition across industries and business formats are reiterated as factors contributing to the persistently difficult business environment. - FY2017-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「In the retail industry, the growth rate of personal consumption remained flat, while competition among companies across industry and business-format boundaries intensified, and the difficult business environment continued.」
Flat personal consumption and intensifying competition across industries and business formats are reiterated as factors contributing to the persistently difficult business environment. - FY2017-Q1First statedAnnual report
「In the retail industry, although the government postponed the consumption tax increase, competition among companies across industry and business-format boundaries intensified, and the difficult business environment continued.」
Intensifying competition and the difficult business environment in the retail industry are described as external risks.