Competition from Alternative Modes of Transportation and Other Companies
First written in FY2016. 9 of 12 entries say "Restated". Latest entry: FY2025.
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- FY2025RestatedAnnual report
「The development of innovative technologies accompanying the acceleration of digitalisation and the spread of new business and value-delivery models may have an extremely significant impact on our group's revenue.」
In addition to competition from conventional transportation providers, changes in the competitive environment resulting from digitalisation and new value-delivery models continue to be recognised. - FY2024RestatedAnnual report
「Meanwhile, our group competes with alternative transportation providers in its railway business and with operators in various industries and business formats in its non-railway businesses. Competition has intensified in recent years and may affect our group's revenue.」
Intensifying competition continues to be described as a revenue risk covering both railway and non-railway businesses. - FY2023WorsenedAnnual report
「Meanwhile, our group competes with alternative transportation providers in its railway business and with operators in various industries and business formats in its non-railway businesses. Competition has intensified in recent years and may affect our group's revenue.」
The intensification of competition was explicitly identified as a competitive risk covering both railway and non-railway businesses. - FY2022RestatedAnnual report
「In particular, we continue to compete with airlines through flight frequencies, airfare pricing strategies and other measures, even amid declining demand due to the COVID-19 pandemic.」
Competition with airlines and other providers continues to be recognised as a risk, and responses involving the N700S, reservation services, pricing and tourism initiatives were described. - FY2020RestatedAnnual report
「In particular, we face intense competition from airlines as they improve the convenience of air travel through increased flight frequencies, lower airfares and other measures.」
Intense competition from alternative transportation providers, including airlines, continues to be recognised as a business risk. - FY2019RestatedAnnual report
「In particular, we face intense competition from airlines as they improve the convenience of air travel through increased flight frequencies, lower airfares and other measures.」
Competition from alternative transportation providers, including airlines, continues to be identified as a factor affecting performance. - FY2018RestatedAnnual report
「In particular, we face intense competition from airlines as they improve the convenience of air travel through increased flight frequencies, lower airfares and other measures.」
Competition from alternative transportation providers, particularly intense competition from airlines, continues to be identified as a factor affecting performance. - FY2018-Q1WorsenedAnnual report
「Although we operate in an uncertain business environment due to domestic and overseas conditions, including personal consumption and foreign exchange rates, intensifying competition from alternative transportation providers, and increasingly severe natural disasters, we took concerted group-wide efforts to achieve the targets of the Group Medium-Term Management Plan and the Safety Action Plan by remaining alert to changes in the business environment, promptly identifying growth opportunities and implementing necessary measures.」
Competition from alternative transportation providers was described as intensifying, rather than merely as competition as in previous disclosures, indicating a heightened business-environment risk. - FY2017RestatedAnnual report
「In our railway business, our group competes with other railway companies, airlines, automobiles, buses and other alternative transportation providers. We are also affected by conditions in the Japanese economy, particularly economic trends in western Japan, our main operating area. Future competitive trends and economic conditions may affect our group's financial position and operating results.」
The impact of competition from alternative transportation providers and economic conditions on performance continues to be described. - FY2017-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「The business environment surrounding our group remains difficult to forecast, owing to increasingly severe natural disasters, population decline, competition from alternative transportation providers, and unstable economic conditions.」
Competition from alternative transportation providers continues to be described as a factor contributing to an uncertain business environment. - FY2017-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「The business environment surrounding our group remains difficult to forecast, owing to increasingly severe natural disasters, responses to terrorism and other threats, population decline, competition from alternative transportation providers, and unstable economic conditions.」
Competition from alternative transportation providers continues to be described as a factor contributing to an uncertain business environment. - FY2016First statedAnnual report
「In our railway business, our group competes with other railway companies, airlines, automobiles, buses and other alternative transportation providers. We are also affected by conditions in the Japanese economy, particularly economic trends in western Japan, our main operating area. Future competitive trends and economic conditions may affect our group's financial position and operating results.」
Competition with railway companies, airlines, automobiles and buses was identified as a factor affecting revenue, and responses including new rolling stock, reservation services and fare products were also described.