Digital shift and structural reform of the sales and manufacturing organization

「In the information business, we are strengthening initiatives to shift the business focus from printing to non-printing, centered on information-processing services. At the same time, by reorganizing the group’s publishing and printing operations, pursuing further rationalization and building a flexible operating structure, we aim to shift the production model from mass production to high-value-added production and improve profitability.」

「In the information business, while maintaining the scale of sales, we are advancing initiatives to shift the business focus from printing to non-printing by providing high-quality services centered on information processing. In the lifestyle and industrial materials business, while focusing on manufacturing packaging materials for food products and daily necessities, we are working to expand our core businesses and develop promising businesses in order to strengthen the development of proprietary products using materials-processing technologies and expansion into growing markets and business areas.」

「In the information business, while maintaining the scale of sales, we aim to shift the business focus from printing to information services, or non-printing, and provide high-quality services centered on information processing. In the lifestyle and industrial materials business, while continuing to focus on manufacturing packaging materials for food products and daily necessities, we will strengthen expansion into growing markets and business areas in Japan and overseas by developing proprietary products that capitalize on our core materials-processing technologies.」

「We are also working to rebuild our organizational structure by consolidating manufacturing sites and businesses, and are pursuing further rationalization.」

「In November 2023, we formulated our group’s “DX Strategy,” setting out policies and initiatives to promote DX in conjunction with sustainability management. Under a company-wide promotion structure led by the Representative Director and President, we will accelerate initiatives that contribute to resolving material issues and aim to create a prosperous society and new value by advancing “business process transformation” to strengthen our business foundations, “business model transformation” to explore new business areas, and “human capital transformation” to foster the mindset for change among employees that underpins DX promotion.」

「In the education field, the company pursued new business development, including the launch of a website providing learning content to companies and local governments.」

「In the Lifestyle and Industrial Materials business, we advanced the development of environmentally friendly products and high-performance packaging materials, while working to make our plants smarter by using digital technologies to reduce labor requirements in production processes and lower costs, thereby promoting initiatives aimed at realizing one of our materiality priorities, a circular society.」

「While focusing on winning orders through proposals to financial institutions, government agencies and local governments, including web services that improve the efficiency of specialized and complex operations, we focused on rolling out the Bizプリカ corporate prepaid card service to expand the payments solutions business.」

「We focused on winning orders by advancing proposals to financial institutions, government agencies and local governments, while pursuing new initiatives, including the joint development of a drone flight information verification system as drone use expands and the development of Content Carrier™, an IC product that provides access to a range of online services when held over a smartphone.」

「We will also promote the digitalization of the manufacturing division, starting with selected model plants, and work to generate profits.」

「While seeking to win orders by promoting proposals to financial institutions, government agencies and local authorities, we also focused on initiatives such as developing a “Digital Written-Answer Scoring System” that enables written-answer questions to be scored in a web browser, with the aim of expanding services in the digital field.」

「In the information business, with the aim of creating new value based on the strengths developed through the printing business, we are working to strengthen priority areas and expand the digital business, including capturing business opportunities by leveraging content and proposing products and services that support the digital shift in sales promotion and business support operations.」

「In the Information and Communications segment, we worked on proposing solutions for sales promotion and developing a production system that responds to market changes. In the Information Security segment, we focused on expanding the BPO business by promoting proposals that capitalize on our highly secure environment and providing services that improve operational efficiency.」

「In the information business, we worked to advance proposals for service offerings that resolve customers' latent issues and integrated manufacturing processes for printing and processing that had been dispersed across the Group, with the aim of establishing an optimal production structure.」

「While actively responding to these changes in the business environment, we will strengthen initiatives aimed at recovering performance. At the same time, we will pursue further profitability improvements through thorough rationalization and efficiency gains.」

「The purpose is to rationalize the production system and improve profitability by integrating the manufacturing processes and organizational functions for printing and processing that are dispersed across the Group, thereby establishing an integrated system from printing through processing.」

「We have identified expanding sales through the digital shift and improving profitability through structural reform of the sales and manufacturing organization as key issues, and will implement various measures to achieve our management plan.」