Soaring Raw Material Prices for Printing Paper, Ink and Other Materials
First written in FY2017. 12 of 20 entries say "Restated". Latest entry: FY2026.
TAKEDA iP HOLDINGS moved to the "Worse" side of this theme in 2022.
0 other companies' latest entry also says "Restated".
- FY2026RestatedAnnual report
「The raw materials, supplies, components, outsourced processing costs, energy and logistics costs used by our Group in its business activities fluctuate depending on changes in global conditions, market conditions, exchange rates, energy prices, logistics supply and demand, and the status of the supply chain.」
It broadly identifies price fluctuation factors extending beyond raw materials such as printing paper to components, outsourced processing costs, energy, logistics costs and the supply chain, and describes responses including passing on costs through prices, multiple sourcing and inventory management. - FY2025-H1WorsenedAnnual report
「In addition to higher energy, logistics and labour costs, intermittent increases in printing paper prices are further accelerating the digitalisation of advertising and promotional media and the shift away from paper. Commercial printed materials such as in-house newsletters, catalogues and flyers continue to decline, and conditions remain difficult for them to recover to previous levels.」
In addition to higher raw material prices, it identifies higher energy, logistics and labour costs and intermittent increases in printing paper prices, broadening the factors driving cost increases. - FY2024-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「In Japan's printing market, where our Group operates, the contraction of print media driven by digitalisation, intensifying competition and persistently weak prices have continued for an extended period. In addition, energy and raw material prices have risen, and conditions remain extremely challenging.」
Higher energy and raw material prices continue to create a difficult printing market environment alongside shrinking print media, intensifying competition and weak prices. - FY2023WorsenedAnnual report
「The raw materials and other items used by our Group, including printing paper, ink and printing plates, fluctuate in price depending on changes in global conditions, market conditions, energy prices, exchange rates and logistics costs. Printing paper, in particular, is a major component of our overall raw material costs and is subject to the greatest impact from price fluctuations. Reduced market supply resulting from production cuts by paper manufacturers also contributes to price increases.」
It identifies specific factors behind the existing risk of higher raw material prices, adding global conditions, energy prices, logistics costs and reduced distribution volumes resulting from production cuts by paper manufacturers. - FY2023-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「In Japan's printing market, where our Group operates, the contraction of print media driven by digitalisation, intensifying competition and persistently weak prices have continued for an extended period. In addition, energy and raw material prices have risen, and conditions remain extremely challenging.」
Higher energy and raw material prices continue to compound the difficult printing market environment of shrinking print media, intensifying competition and weak prices. - FY2023-Q2WorsenedAnnual report
「In Japan's printing market, where our Group operates, the contraction of print media driven by digitalisation, intensifying competition and persistently weak prices have continued for an extended period. In addition, energy and raw material prices have risen, and conditions remain extremely challenging.」
The difficult market environment, in which the longstanding contraction of print media, intensifying competition and weak prices have been compounded by higher energy and raw material prices, continues. - FY2023-Q1WorsenedAnnual report
「In Japan's printing market, where our Group operates, the contraction of print media driven by digitalisation, intensifying competition and persistently weak prices have continued for an extended period. In addition, energy and raw material prices have risen, and conditions remain extremely challenging.」
It explicitly identifies the previously existing contraction of print media, intensifying competition and weak prices, together with higher energy prices, and describes the difficult conditions in the printing market caused by the combination of these factors and rising raw material prices. - FY2022WorsenedAnnual report
「We are negotiating with customers regarding passing cost increases on to selling prices, but customers have limited advertising and promotional budgets. Depending on the outcome of the negotiations, this could reduce sales due to lower print volumes or page counts and, ultimately, encourage a shift to advertising and promotional media other than print, accelerating the move away from print.」
It specifically states that, if passing on higher raw material costs through to prices is difficult, this could further accelerate declines in print runs and page counts and the shift away from paper. - FY2022-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「In Japan's printing market, where our group operates, the long-term pattern of contracting print media, intensifying competition and persistently low prices continues, compounded by surging raw-material prices, and the extremely challenging situation persists.」
Surging raw material prices continue to contribute to a challenging printing market environment, together with the contraction of print media, intensifying competition and weak prices. - FY2022-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「In Japan's printing market, where our group operates, the long-term pattern of contracting print media, intensifying competition and persistently low prices continues, compounded by surging raw-material prices, and the extremely challenging situation persists.」
Surging raw material prices continue to contribute to a challenging printing market environment, together with the contraction of print media, intensifying competition and weak prices. - FY2021RestatedAnnual report
「Raw materials and other items used by our group, including printing paper, ink and printing plates, fluctuate in price due to market conditions, energy prices, exchange rates and logistics costs. Printing paper, our principal material, accounts for a large proportion of total raw materials and has the greatest impact when prices fluctuate.」
The company continues to identify the risk that the prices of raw materials, particularly printing paper, may fluctuate due to market conditions, energy prices, exchange rates and logistics costs. - FY2021-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「The domestic printing industry, our group's core market, remains in an extremely challenging situation. The long-term contraction of print media due to the advance of digitalization, intensifying competition and weak prices have continued, compounded by surging raw material prices.」
Surging raw material prices continue to compound the challenging conditions in the printing industry, alongside the contraction of print media, intensifying competition and weak prices. - FY2021-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「The domestic printing industry, our group's core market, remains in an extremely challenging situation. The long-term contraction of print media due to the advance of digitalization, intensifying competition and weak prices have continued, compounded by surging raw material prices.」
Surging raw material prices continue to compound the challenging conditions in the printing industry, alongside the contraction of print media, intensifying competition and weak prices. - FY2020MaterialisedAnnual report
「In fact, following the across-the-board price increases for printing paper implemented by paper manufacturers from January 2019 in connection with production cuts, our cost of sales ratio for the commercial printing business, our core business, rose from 81.7% to 82.0% and our materials cost ratio rose from 15.9% to 16.2%, each an increase of 0.3 percentage points, compared with the previous fiscal year, when the period subject to the price increases was 3 months. Profitability has deteriorated.」
The across-the-board price increases for printing paper actually occurred, and their impact was quantified as a 0.3-percentage-point increase in both the cost of sales ratio and the materials cost ratio, resulting in lower profitability. - FY2020-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「Against this backdrop, the domestic printing industry, our core business, faces an extremely challenging situation as the long-term pattern of contracting print media, intensifying competition and persistently low prices continues, compounded by higher raw-material prices resulting from increases in printing-paper prices.」
The surge in raw material prices due to printing paper price increases continues to contribute to a challenging business environment, together with the contraction of print media and weak prices. - FY2020-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「Against this backdrop, the domestic printing industry, our core business, faces an extremely challenging situation as the long-term pattern of contracting print media, intensifying competition and persistently low prices continues, compounded by higher raw-material prices resulting from increases in printing-paper prices implemented since the beginning of the year.」
The surge in raw material prices due to printing paper price increases continues to contribute to a challenging environment, together with the contraction of print media and weak prices. - FY2020-Q1MaterialisedAnnual report
「The situation is extremely challenging, compounded by surging raw material prices due to the price increases for printing paper implemented from the beginning of the year.」
The company stated that price increases for printing paper were implemented and actually affected the business environment through higher raw material prices. - FY2019RestatedAnnual report
「Raw materials and other items used by our group, including printing paper, ink and printing plates, fluctuate in price due to market conditions, energy prices, exchange rates and logistics costs. We will seek to absorb increases in raw material prices through passing them on to selling prices, cost reductions such as productivity improvements, and expense reductions, but if we cannot fully address them, they could affect our group's business performance.」
The company continues to identify as a risk fluctuations in raw material prices due to market conditions, energy prices, exchange rates and logistics costs, and the potential impact on business performance if the increases cannot be absorbed through passing costs on to customers or cost reductions. - FY2018RestatedAnnual report
「Raw materials and other items used by our group, including printing paper, ink and printing plates, fluctuate in price due to market conditions, energy prices and exchange rates. We will seek to absorb increases in raw material prices through cost reductions, such as productivity improvements, and expense reductions, but if we cannot fully address them, they could affect our group's business performance.」
The company continues to identify as a risk fluctuations in raw material prices due to market conditions, energy prices and exchange rates, and the potential impact on business performance if the increases cannot be absorbed through cost reductions. - FY2017First statedAnnual report
「Raw materials and other items used by our group, including printing paper, ink and film, fluctuate in price due to exchange rates and market conditions, as well as processing costs such as crude oil and electricity.」
The company describes the risk that fluctuations in raw material and processing costs due to exchange rates, market conditions, crude oil and electricity prices could affect business performance if they cannot be addressed through cost reductions or passing costs on to customers.