Rising Raw Material Prices
First written in FY2018-Q1. 15 of 27 entries say "Restated". Latest entry: 2026-10-09.
Ringer Hut moved to the "Worse" side of this theme in 2018, 1 year before the typical company in this theme (2019).
The whole theme swung hardest in 2022: 41 of 48 companies on the "Worse" side.
21 other companies' latest entry also says "Restated".
- FY2027-H1RestatedAnnual report
「Although demand for eating out is recovering, the business environment remains challenging due to higher raw material and utility costs and rising labor costs.」
The surge in raw material costs, together with increases in utilities and labor costs, is being reaffirmed as a persistent adverse factor in the operating environment, even as demand for dining out recovers. - FY2025-H1RestatedAnnual report
「In addition, the business environment remains challenging due to surging raw material and utilities costs and ongoing difficulties in hiring.」
Surging raw material costs, together with higher utilities costs and ongoing difficulties in hiring, continue to be cited as factors contributing to the challenging business environment. - FY2025-Q1MaterialisedAnnual report
「In March, in light of the continued rise in energy costs and further increases in raw material, labor and logistics costs, the company revised product prices in both its Nagasaki champon and tonkatsu businesses.」
Further increases in raw material costs are cited as a reason for revising product prices, with rising costs resulting in the need for operational measures. - FY2024RestatedAnnual report
「In the food service industry, customer numbers are recovering steadily as easing restrictions on activities have increased opportunities to dine out, but the business environment remains challenging due to surging raw material, utilities and personnel costs, as well as ongoing difficulties in hiring.」
Surging raw material costs, together with higher utilities and personnel costs and difficulties in hiring, are cited as factors contributing to the challenging environment in the food service industry that remains even during the recovery phase. - FY2024-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「However, the business environment remains challenging due to declining purchasing power resulting from prolonged price increases, surging raw material and utilities costs, and difficulties in hiring that have become more pronounced since the pandemic.」
Surging raw material costs, together with declining purchasing power due to price increases, higher utilities costs and difficulties in hiring, continue to be cited as factors contributing to the challenging environment surrounding the food service industry. - FY2024-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「In the food service industry, consumer purchasing activity was returning to pre-pandemic levels following the reclassification of COVID-19 as a Class 5 infectious disease, but the business environment remained challenging due to concerns over slowing consumption amid continuing inflation, surging raw material and utility costs, and prolonged hiring difficulties.」
Surging raw material costs, together with concerns over slower consumption due to price increases, higher utilities costs and prolonged difficulties in hiring, continue to be cited as factors contributing to the challenging business environment. - FY2024-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「In the food service industry, consumer purchasing activity is returning to pre-pandemic levels as COVID-19 was reclassified to Category 5, but the business environment remains challenging due to concerns over weaker consumption amid continuing price increases, surging raw material and utilities costs, and ongoing difficulties in hiring.」
Surging raw material costs, together with higher utilities costs, price increases and difficulties in hiring, continue to be cited as factors contributing to the challenging environment surrounding the food service business. - FY2023WorsenedAnnual report
「Selling, general and administrative expenses increased by ¥1,623 million from the previous consolidated fiscal year to ¥24,777 million. This was mainly due to higher personnel expenses resulting from increased working hours for part-time employees and hourly wage increases accompanying higher sales, as well as higher utilities expenses resulting from surging energy prices.」
Higher raw material and energy prices and rising personnel expenses materialised as actual cost increases, pushing selling, general and administrative expenses up by ¥1,623 million. - FY2023-Q3WorsenedAnnual report
「However, further increases in raw material and energy prices are also a concern due to the prolonged instability in the international situation, and the outlook remains uncertain.」
The risk is described as having intensified, shifting from the previous surge in raw material and energy prices to concerns over further increases resulting from the prolonged international instability. - FY2023-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「However, the situation remains uncertain due to soaring raw material and energy prices resulting from the destabilization of the international situation.」
The surge in raw material and energy prices accompanying growing international instability continues to be cited as a factor contributing to the uncertain outlook. - FY2023-Q1WorsenedAnnual report
「However, the situation remains uncertain due to soaring raw material and energy prices resulting from the destabilization of the international situation.」
In addition to the previous references to rising raw-material prices, the company explicitly identified surging energy prices and increasing instability in the international situation as factors creating uncertainty about the outlook. - FY2020MaterialisedAnnual report
「Surging raw-material prices, persistent difficulty hiring employees and continued increases in hourly wages for part-time and temporary workers led to increasingly intense competition with rival companies for customers.」
Surging raw-material prices, together with labor costs and difficulty hiring employees, continued and actually affected full-year cost burdens and profit declines. - FY2020-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「In the food service industry, challenging conditions continued due to consumers’ preference for saving following the consumption tax increase, surging raw material prices, and ongoing hiring difficulties and increases in hourly wages for part-time employees.」
The company continued to identify surging raw-material prices, together with consumers' propensity to economize, difficulty hiring employees and higher hourly wages for part-time and temporary workers, as factors contributing to the challenging environment in the food-service industry. - FY2020-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「In the food service industry, challenging conditions continued due to consumers’ preference for saving, surging raw material prices, and ongoing hiring difficulties and increases in hourly wages for part-time employees.」
The company reaffirmed surging raw-material prices, together with difficulty hiring employees and higher hourly wages for part-time and temporary workers, as factors contributing to the challenging environment in the food-service industry. - FY2020-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「In the food service industry, challenging conditions continued due to consumers’ preference for saving, surging raw material prices, and ongoing hiring difficulties and increases in hourly wages for part-time employees.」
Surging raw-material prices, together with difficulty hiring employees and higher hourly wages for part-time and temporary workers, were reaffirmed as factors contributing to the challenging operating environment in the food-service industry. - FY2019MaterialisedAnnual report
「In addition to surging raw-material prices and higher freight costs, labor costs continued to rise because of persistent difficulty hiring employees. Although the company pursued improvement measures, including process improvements, it was unable to absorb the rising costs through higher sales.」
Surging raw-material prices, together with higher freight and labor costs, became a factor depressing full-year profit and could not be absorbed through higher sales. - FY2019-Q3MaterialisedAnnual report
「Operating profit was ¥1,565 million, down 21.4% year on year, ordinary profit was ¥1,501 million, down 22.4%, and profit attributable to owners of the parent was ¥397 million, down 55.4%, due to surging raw-material prices, higher utility costs and rising labor costs amid labor shortages.」
Surging raw-material prices, together with higher utility and labor costs, actually affected results as a factor behind the decline in profit. - FY2019-Q2MaterialisedAnnual report
「As a result, for the six months ended the second quarter, revenue increased 3.6% year on year to ¥23,572 million, but operating profit declined 23.3% to ¥1,082 million, ordinary profit declined 23.5% to ¥1,047 million, and quarterly net income attributable to owners of the parent declined 59.4% to ¥256 million, as raw material prices and freight costs rose and labor costs continued to increase amid labor shortages.」
Surging raw-material prices, together with higher freight and labor costs, continued and actually affected results as factors behind the decline in cumulative quarterly profit. - FY2019-Q1MaterialisedAnnual report
「Net sales were ¥11,728 million, up 3.8% year on year, but operating profit was ¥590 million, down 21.3%, ordinary profit was ¥570 million, down 21.2%, and profit attributable to owners of the parent was ¥128 million, down 54.5%, as raw-material prices and freight costs surged and labor costs continued to rise amid labor shortages.」
The company stated that surging raw-material prices, together with higher freight and labor costs, continued and actually affected results as factors behind the decline in quarterly operating profit and other earnings measures. - FY2018WorsenedAnnual report
「Because the ingredients and other materials used in the products the group provides to customers are diverse, outbreaks of disease, adverse weather and other factors may make it difficult to secure the required quantities of raw materials or may cause procurement prices to surge.」
The scope of the explicit disclosure has expanded from the previous references to rising and elevated prices to include raw-material procurement risks, such as difficulty securing required quantities due to disease outbreaks or adverse weather, including import restrictions. - FY2018-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「The operating environment surrounding the food service industry has become increasingly challenging due to intensifying competition with other sectors for customers, persistently high raw material prices, and higher personnel and logistics costs amid labor shortages.」
The company described raw-material prices as remaining elevated and continued to identify them as a factor making the operating environment for the food-service industry more challenging. - FY2018-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「The operating environment surrounding the food service industry has become increasingly challenging due to intensifying competition with other sectors for customers, rising raw material prices, and higher personnel and logistics costs amid labor shortages.」
The company has continued to identify rising raw-material prices as a factor making the operating environment for the food-service industry more challenging. - FY2018-Q1First statedAnnual report
「The operating environment surrounding the food service industry has become increasingly challenging due to intensifying competition with other sectors for customers, rising raw material prices, and higher labor costs amid labor shortages.」
The company separately identified rising raw-material prices for the first time as a factor making the operating environment for the food-service business more challenging.