Weakness in Certain Sales Channels, Including Duty-Free Stores and Taiwan
First written in FY2016-Q2. 14 of 31 entries say "Restated". Latest entry: 2026-06-29.
Zojirushi moved to the "Worse" side of this theme in 2019, the same year as the typical company in this theme.
The whole theme swung hardest in 2019: 15 of 33 companies on the "Worse" side.
11 other companies' latest entry also says "Worsened".
- 2026-06-29WorsenedPresentation materials on financial results
「Stainless-steel pots grew in China, but sales of stainless-steel mugs struggled in China, Taiwan, South Korea and other markets, resulting in a decline from the previous year.」
Weak sales of stainless-steel mugs in China, Taiwan and South Korea were confirmed as a source of weakness by region and product. - FY2025WorsenedAnnual report
「Overseas, sales in Taiwan performed well, but sales in China declined significantly from the previous year.」
While Taiwan performed well, sales in China declined significantly from the previous year, broadening weakness in certain major sales markets. - FY2025-H1WorsenedAnnual report
「Overseas, North America and Taiwan performed well, but sales in China declined significantly from the previous year.」
While North America and Taiwan performed well, sales in China declined significantly from the previous year, broadening weakness in certain major sales markets. - FY2024WorsenedAnnual report
「Overseas, electric pots and grill pots struggled in major regions including China and Taiwan.」
In addition to weakness in Taiwan, continued weakness was identified in regions and products including electric pots and grill pots in China and Taiwan and stainless steel products in Southeast Asia. - FY2024-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「Overseas, sales were sluggish in Taiwan but performed well in South Korea.」
While weakness in the Taiwan market was again clearly indicated, South Korea performed well, and divergent sales performance by region continued. - FY2023MitigatedAnnual report
「Overseas, electric pots and other products performed poorly in China and Southeast Asia, but rice cookers performed well in North America and Southeast Asia, resulting in sales exceeding the previous year's level overall.」
Stainless steel products in Taiwan, Southeast Asia and South Korea, as well as rice cookers in North America and Southeast Asia, performed well, including in Taiwan, where weakness had previously been reported, indicating product-specific improvement in certain weak markets. - FY2023-Q2MitigatedAnnual report
「Overseas, sales were sluggish in China, but sales exceeded the previous year's level as stainless steel products performed well in Taiwan, Southeast Asia and South Korea.」
Stainless steel products in Taiwan, Southeast Asia and South Korea performed well, including in Taiwan, where weakness had previously been reported. Meanwhile, sales in China were sluggish. - FY2023-Q1MitigatedAnnual report
「Overseas, sales were sluggish in China but performed well in North America, Southeast Asia and South Korea.」
Sales of stainless steel products, including in Taiwan, where weakness had previously been reported, exceeded the previous year's level, indicating product- and region-specific improvement in certain weak sales markets. Meanwhile, sales in China were sluggish. - FY2022MitigatedAnnual report
「Overseas, rice cooker sales performed well in North America, China, Taiwan and Southeast Asia.」
Rice cooker sales performed well in the major markets of North America, China, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, including Taiwan, where weakness had previously been reported. - FY2022-Q2MitigatedAnnual report
「Overseas, sales exceeded the previous year's level in the major markets of China, North America, Taiwan and Southeast Asia.」
Sales exceeded the previous year's level in the major markets of China, North America, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, including Taiwan, where weakness had been reported in the past. - FY2021DroppedAnnual report
「Overseas, sales exceeded the previous year's level in North America, where e-commerce sales performed well, as well as in China and Southeast Asia.」
This filing does not specifically identify weakness in duty-free retailers or the Taiwan market, and reports sales exceeding the previous year's level in North America, China and Southeast Asia. - FY2021-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「Overseas, sales declined in Taiwan but exceeded the previous year's level in North America, where e-commerce sales performed well, as well as in China and Southeast Asia.」
While weakness continued in Taiwan, sales exceeded the previous year's level in North America, China and Southeast Asia, and divergent performance by region continued. - FY2021-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「Overseas, sales declined in Taiwan but exceeded the previous year's level in North America, China and Southeast Asia.」
While weakness continued in Taiwan, sales exceeded the previous year's level in North America, China and Southeast Asia, and divergent performance by region continued. - FY2020-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「Overseas, rice cookers performed well in North America, led by microcomputer rice cookers, and sales also increased in Taiwan, partly due to the contribution of a large order. In electric cooking appliances, home bread maker sales in North America exceeded the previous year's level.」
While some products increased in North America and Taiwan, weakness continued in other regions and products, confirming divergent performance by product and region in overseas markets. - FY2020-Q2WorsenedAnnual report
「Overseas, rice cooker sales exceeded the previous year's level in Taiwan, partly due to the contribution of a large order, but performed poorly in China, led by microcomputer rice cookers, partly because retailers temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in a decline in total rice cooker sales. Electric pot sales fell below the previous year's level in China and other markets.」
While sales increased in Taiwan due to a large order, rice cooker sales declined in China because retailers temporarily closed, and electric pot sales also fell below the previous year's level in China and other markets. - FY2020-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「Overseas, sales of stainless steel mugs declined in Southeast Asia and sales of stainless steel food jars and other products declined in Taiwan, while stainless steel mugs and stainless steel food jars performed well in China.」
While some products performed well in China, stainless steel products declined in Southeast Asia and Taiwan, and divergent performance by region and product continued. - FY2019WorsenedAnnual report
「However, overseas sales and profit both declined year on year, partly because adverse conditions affected sales activities in multiple countries and regions, including a slowdown in China caused by US-China trade friction, stagnation in Hong Kong caused by pro-democracy demonstrations, and contraction in South Korea caused by a boycott of Japanese products.」
Adverse conditions affecting sales activities actually emerged in multiple countries and regions, including China, Hong Kong and South Korea, contributing to declines in sales and profit. - FY2019-Q3WorsenedAnnual report
「In the living products segment, domestic stainless steel mug sales performed poorly, partly due to a decline in market-wide shipments, and sales of 2-WAY bottles, which offer a choice of two ways to drink, also declined. Sales of stainless steel cool bottles designed exclusively for keeping beverages cold fell below the previous year's level, partly due to unfavorable summer weather. Overseas, stainless steel mugs and stainless steel food jars performed poorly in China. Sales also declined in other markets, led by stainless steel mugs.」
In addition to China, North America and Taiwan, where weakness had previously been reported, the filing reports declines led by stainless steel mugs in other overseas markets, broadening the scope of weakness. - FY2019-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「Overseas, sales of stainless steel pots increased in China, but stainless steel food jars and stainless steel mugs performed poorly. Sales of stainless steel mugs in North America and Taiwan also fell below the previous year's level.」
While some products increased in China, weak performance or sales below the previous year's level continued for stainless steel products in China, North America and Taiwan. - FY2019-Q1WorsenedAnnual report
「Overseas, sales of stainless steel pots increased in China, but stainless steel mugs and stainless steel food jars fell below the previous year's level. Stainless steel mugs also performed poorly in Taiwan, resulting in a decline in total stainless steel vacuum flask sales.」
While stainless steel pot sales increased in China, stainless steel mugs and food jars there, as well as stainless steel mugs in Taiwan, performed poorly, broadening the weakness across the overseas stainless steel vacuum flask business overall. - FY2018WorsenedAnnual report
「Overseas, although IH rice cooker sales grew in China, microcomputer-controlled rice cooker sales fell sharply, partly because a large order recorded in the previous year was absent. Sales also fell below the previous year's results in Taiwan and North America, leaving total rice cooker sales sluggish.」
Rice cookers in China, Taiwan and North America fell below the previous year's level or declined significantly, making the weakness in certain sales markets clearly evident in the poor performance of rice cookers overall. - FY2018-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「Overseas, sales of stainless steel mugs and stainless steel food jars declined in Taiwan, but stainless steel mugs and stainless steel pots performed well in China, resulting in an increase in total stainless steel vacuum flask sales.」
While some products declined in Taiwan, stainless steel products performed well in China, and divergent sales performance by region and product continued. - FY2018-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「Overseas, sales of stainless steel mugs and other products declined in Taiwan, but stainless steel mugs and stainless steel pots performed well in China, resulting in an increase in total stainless steel vacuum flask sales.」
While some products declined in Taiwan, stainless steel products performed well in China, and divergent sales performance by region and product continued. - FY2018-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「Overseas, IH rice cooker sales increased in China, but microcomputer rice cookers performed poorly, and sales in Taiwan also fell below the previous year's level, leaving total rice cooker sales broadly at the previous year's level. Electric pot sales fell below the previous year's level in Southeast Asia, but increased overall partly because they performed well in China.」
While some products performed well in China, rice cookers in Taiwan and electric pots in Southeast Asia fell below the previous year's level, and weakness by region and product continued. - FY2017RestatedAnnual report
「Overseas, sales in Taiwan declined, led by stainless steel food jars, but stainless steel mugs and stainless steel pots performed well in China, and total stainless steel vacuum flask sales exceeded the previous year's level.」
While stainless steel products performed well in China, sales declined in Taiwan, led by stainless steel food jars, and weakness by region continued. - FY2017-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「Overseas, sales of stainless steel mugs and stainless steel food jars increased in China. However, in North America, large commercial coffee servers using stainless steel mugs and stainless steel vacuum flasks performed poorly, while sales in Taiwan also fell below the previous year's level, led by stainless steel food jars, resulting in a decline in stainless steel vacuum flask sales.」
While stainless steel products increased in China, weak performance or sales below the previous year's level continued in North America and Taiwan. - FY2017-Q2WorsenedAnnual report
「In the living products segment, domestic sales increased for 2-WAY bottles, which offer a choice of two ways to drink, and stainless steel cool bottles designed exclusively for keeping beverages cold, partly due to the launch of new products. Stainless steel mugs also exceeded the previous year's level, led by one-touch-opening models. However, stainless steel food jars performed poorly, partly due to a decline in market-wide shipments. Overseas, stainless steel mugs and stainless steel pots performed well in China, but sales remained broadly at the previous year's level because of a decline in yen-denominated sales caused by foreign exchange movements. In North America, large commercial coffee servers using stainless steel mugs and stainless steel vacuum flasks performed poorly, while sales in Taiwan also declined, led by stainless steel food jars.」
In addition to the traditional weakness in duty-free retailers, Taiwan and other markets, the filing reports declines in stainless steel products in North America and stainless steel food jars in Taiwan, broadening the range of weak regions and products. - FY2017-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「In addition to other rice cookers generally falling below the previous year's level, rice cookers sold through duty-free retailers performed poorly, resulting in a decline in total rice cooker sales. Electric pot sales exceeded the previous year's level in China, but declined in Taiwan, Southeast Asia and other markets.」
The filing continues to report weak performance by rice cookers sold through duty-free retailers and declining electric pot sales in Taiwan and Southeast Asia. - FY2016RestatedAnnual report
「However, partly due to declines in sales of rice cookers sold through duty-free retailers and pressure IH rice cookers, total rice cooker sales fell below the previous year's level. Overseas, rice cooker sales fell below the previous year's level, partly due to a decline in yen-denominated sales caused by foreign exchange movements and weak performance in the Taiwan market.」
Weakness in rice cookers sold through duty-free retailers, pressure IH rice cookers and rice cookers in the Taiwan market continued through the full year. - FY2016-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「However, sales of pressure IH rice cookers and rice cookers sold through duty-free retailers declined, causing total domestic rice cooker sales to fall below the previous year's level. In the Taiwan market, although newly launched home bread makers contributed to sales, rice cooker and electric pot sales declined.」
Continued weakness in certain products sold through duty-free retailers and in the Taiwan market is reported. - FY2016-Q2First statedAnnual report
「Meanwhile, sales of rice cookers for duty-free retailers declined. In the Taiwan market, sales of newly launched home bread makers contributed to results, but sales of electric pots and other products fell below the previous year's level.」
The filing reports sales below the previous year's level for rice cookers sold through duty-free retailers and electric pots and other products in the Taiwan market.