Efficient Use of Management Resources and Publishing Business Model Reform
First written in FY2016. 20 of 30 entries say "Restated". Latest entry: 2026-05-12.
2 other companies' latest entry also says "Advanced".
- 2026-05-12AdvancedEarnings
「The company has also continued to strengthen its customer base by holding publication commemorative seminars led by authors and regularly posting articles on note.」
The company continued to strengthen customer touchpoints and its customer base through seminars and note articles. - FY2025AdvancedAnnual report
「5. Promoting content digitisation.」
The company explicitly identifies its response to conventional electronic publishing and subscription services as an issue to address, under “promoting content digitisation.” The provision of electronic data to subscription services also continued to grow. - FY2025-H1RestatedAnnual report
「The Company is pursuing activities focused on key themes including planning that accurately captures reader needs, pricing and marketing responsive to higher prices, stronger sales of previously published books, measures to reduce returns, and responses to the increasingly costly publishing distribution system.」
The challenges in the publishing business model continue, combining planning and marketing, sales of previously published books, reducing returns, and addressing the rising costs of publishing distribution. - FY2024AdvancedAnnual report
「The purpose of this merger is to streamline the organization and businesses and improve the efficiency of management resources held across the Group.」
The absorption-type merger of CKD Corporation was completed, putting into practice the reorganization of businesses and the organization within the Group aimed at improving the efficiency of management resources. - FY2024-Q2AdvancedAnnual report
「The purpose of this merger is to streamline the organization and businesses and improve the efficiency of management resources held across the Group.」
The absorption-type merger of CKD Corporation was completed, putting into practice the streamlining of the Group's organization and businesses and the more efficient use of management resources, in addition to efficiency improvements under the publishing business model. - FY2024-Q1AdvancedAnnual report
「At an extraordinary meeting of the Company's Board of Directors held on 18 December 2023, the Company resolved to absorb CKD Corporation, its wholly owned subsidiary, through an absorption-type merger, with the aim of streamlining the subsidiary's organization and business and improving the efficiency of management resources held across the Group.」
In addition to efficiency improvements under the existing publishing business model, the Company resolved to streamline the organization and businesses and improve the efficiency of Group management resources through the absorption-type merger of its wholly owned subsidiary. - FY2023RaisedAnnual report
「Going forward, we will place even greater emphasis on initiatives such as increasing the proportion of sales formats that reduce consumption of forest resources, including electronic publishing and subscription services for magazine article data, for which demand has been growing in recent years.」
In addition to the previous focus on book digitization, the Company indicated a policy of increasing the proportion of electronic publishing and subscription services for magazine article data, expanding the range of sales formats. - FY2023-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「Against this backdrop, the Group engaged in activities focused on planning that accurately captures reader needs, pricing and marketing responding to higher prices, strengthening sales of backlist titles, reducing returns, and addressing the increasingly costly publishing distribution network.」
The Company continues to reform the publishing business model by combining planning and marketing, stronger sales of previously published books, reduction of returns, and responses to the increasingly costly publishing distribution system. - FY2023-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「Against this backdrop, the Group engaged in activities focused on planning that accurately captures reader needs, pricing and marketing responding to higher prices, strengthening sales of backlist titles, reducing returns, and addressing the increasingly costly publishing distribution network.」
The Company continues to reform the publishing business model by combining planning and marketing, stronger sales of previously published books, reduction of returns, and responses to the increasingly costly publishing distribution system. - FY2023-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「The company engaged in activities focused on planning that accurately captures reader needs, marketing responding to higher prices, strengthening sales of backlist titles, reducing returns, and addressing the increasingly costly publishing distribution network.」
The Company continues to prioritize planning and marketing, sales of previously published books, reduction of returns, and responses to the increasingly costly publishing distribution system as key themes in reforming the existing publishing business model. - FY2022ReframedAnnual report
「1. Securing and developing personnel capable of planning and developing projects with new perspectives and sensibilities. 2. Thorough planning and marketing that accurately capture reader needs. 3. Strengthening sales of previously published books and responding to changes in the publishing distribution system. 4. Responding to production cost increases expected to become chronic. 5. Responding promptly to the digitization of books.」
The Company reorganized the reform challenges from those centered on returns and inventory efficiency into 5 areas covering personnel, planning and marketing, sales of previously published books, production costs, and book digitization. - FY2022-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「Against this backdrop, the Group engaged in activities focused on planning that accurately captures reader needs, marketing reflecting the impact of COVID-19, strengthening sales of backlist titles, reducing returns, and addressing the increasingly costly publishing distribution network.」
The Company continues to address the increasingly costly publishing distribution system as an existing reform challenge, together with planning and marketing, sales of previously published books, and measures to reduce returns. - FY2022-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「During the three months ended 30 June, there were no significant changes to, or newly arising issues among, the business and financial challenges that the Group should address as a priority.」
The Company states that there have been no significant changes or new challenges concerning priority issues related to the efficient use of management resources and reform of the publishing business model. - FY2021-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「During the nine months ended 31 December, there were no significant changes to, or newly arising issues among, the business and financial challenges that the Group should address as a priority.」
The Company states that there have been no significant changes or new challenges concerning existing issues related to the efficient use of management resources and reform of the publishing business model. - FY2021-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「During the six months ended 30 September, there were no significant changes to, or newly arising issues among, the business and financial challenges that the Group should address as a priority.」
The Company states that there have been no significant changes or new challenges concerning existing issues related to the efficient use of management resources and reform of the publishing business model. - FY2021-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「The company conducted activities focused on thorough planning and marketing based on an accurate understanding of reader needs, strengthening sales of existing books and addressing the increasingly costly publishing distribution system」
In connection with reform of the publishing business model, including the previous focus on returns and inventory efficiency, the Company continues to prioritize planning and marketing, sales of previously published books, and responses to the publishing distribution system. - FY2020ReframedAnnual report
「1. Thorough planning and marketing that accurately capture reader needs. 2. Developing personnel capable of creating and developing plans from new perspectives. 3. Strengthening sales of previously published books and responding to the increasingly costly publishing distribution system.」
The Company reorganized the issues from the previous description of publishing business model reform centered on returns and inventory turnover into 3 challenges: planning and marketing, personnel development, and sales of previously published books and responses to the increasingly costly publishing distribution system. - FY2020-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「During the nine months ended 31 December, there were no significant changes to, or newly arising issues among, the business and financial challenges that the Group must address.」
The Company states that there have been no significant changes or new challenges concerning existing issues related to the efficient use of management resources and reform of the publishing business model. - FY2020-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「During the six months ended 30 September, there were no significant changes to, or newly arising issues among, the business and financial challenges that the Group must address.」
The Company states that there have been no significant changes or new challenges concerning existing issues related to the efficient use of management resources and reform of the publishing business model. - FY2020-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「During the three months ended 30 June, there were no significant changes to, or newly arising issues among, the business and financial challenges that the Group must address.」
The Company states that there have been no significant changes or new challenges concerning existing issues related to the efficient use of management resources and reform of the publishing business model. - FY2019RestatedAnnual report
「Fourth is improving asset efficiency. We will address the publishing industry's returns problem directly and take on the challenge of building a business model that combines refurbishment and reshipment of returned books with stronger sales of previously published books to further improve inventory turnover, reduce inventories, and increase sales.」
The Company continues to identify as a challenge the construction of a publishing business model combining refurbishment and reshipment of returned books, stronger sales of previously published books, and improved inventory turnover. - FY2019-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「There have been no material changes to the issues to be addressed by our Group during the nine-month period ended 31 December.」
The Company states that there have been no significant changes concerning existing issues related to the efficient use of management resources and reform of the publishing business model. - FY2019-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「During the six months ended 30 September, there were no significant changes to, or newly arising issues among, the business and financial challenges that the Group must address.」
The Company states that there have been no significant changes or new challenges concerning existing issues related to the efficient use of management resources and reform of the publishing business model. - FY2019-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「During the three months ended 30 June, there were no significant changes to, or newly arising issues among, the business and financial challenges that the Group must address.」
The Company states that there have been no significant changes or new challenges concerning existing issues related to the efficient use of management resources and reform of the publishing business model. - FY2018-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「There have been no material changes to the issues to be addressed by our Group during the nine-month period ended 31 December.」
The Company states that there have been no significant changes concerning existing issues related to the efficient use of management resources and reform of the publishing business model. - FY2018-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「During the six months ended 30 September, there were no significant changes to, or newly arising issues among, the business and financial challenges that the Group must address.」
The Company states that there have been no significant changes or new challenges concerning existing issues related to the efficient use of management resources and reform of the publishing business model. - FY2018-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「During the three months ended 30 June, there were no significant changes to, or newly arising issues among, the business and financial challenges that the Group must address.」
The Company states that there were no material changes to, or new issues among, the business and financial matters requiring action. - FY2017RestatedAnnual report
「Fourth is improving asset efficiency. We will address the publishing industry's returns problem directly and take on the challenge of building a business model that combines refurbishment and reshipment of returned books, small-lot reprinting, and stronger sales of previously published books to further improve inventory turnover, reduce inventories, and increase sales.」
The Company continues to identify as a challenge a business model combining refurbishment and reshipment of returned books, small-lot reprinting, and stronger sales of previously published books. Although the new plan has been made more specific, the text describes construction of the model as still being at the challenge stage. - FY2017-Q2AdvancedAnnual report
「The core business of the publishing-related business is acting as an advertising agent for our magazines. However, as advertising media diversify and advertising in print media declines, the business continues to be unable to identify effective measures, and it has reviewed its business model and pursued cost reductions.」
The Company states that it implemented specific measures for the publication-related business, including a review of its business model and expense reductions. - FY2016First statedAnnual report
「The Company will address the publishing industry's returns problem directly, consider solutions from multiple perspectives, and pursue an efficient publishing business model that reliably delivers the books needed while eliminating waste as far as possible. It will also pursue management efficiency by reallocating editors from genres where demand is declining to genres where demand is expected to increase.」
The Company identified improving the publishing model and management efficiency through measures addressing returns, appropriate allocation of copies, waste reduction, and editor reallocation as key challenges.