Measures to Reduce Returns
First written in FY2016-Q3. 21 of 33 entries say "Restated". Latest entry: 2026-08-06.
2 other companies' latest entry also says "Restated".
- FY2025RestatedAnnual report
「Recently, our Group identified reducing returns as one of its priority policies, implemented shipment quantities appropriate to demand, and achieved significant results.」
The company reaffirmed its policy of making reducing returns a priority, ensuring that shipment quantities are appropriate to demand, and its recognition of the resulting benefits. - FY2025-H1RestatedAnnual 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.」
Measures to reduce returns remain a key theme alongside sales of previously published books and responding to the rising costs of publishing distribution. The company states that the publishing industry as a whole is also making progress in improving return rates. - FY2024AdvancedAnnual report
「The company also reduced the return rate by continuing, as before, to review production timing and quantities and sales channels and to ensure that shipment quantities were appropriate to demand」
The company states that it continued to review production timing, quantities and sales channels and to ship quantities appropriate to demand, resulting in a decline in the return rate. - FY2024-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.」
Measures to reduce returns remain a key theme alongside responding to reader needs, pricing and marketing, sales of previously published books and the rising costs of publishing distribution. - FY2024-Q1RestatedAnnual 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.」
Measures to reduce returns remain a key theme alongside planning and marketing, sales of previously published books and responding to the rising costs of publishing distribution. - FY2023AdvancedAnnual report
「As before, the company reviewed the production timing and quantities and sales channels and worked to ensure that shipment quantities were appropriate to demand. However, the impact of the slowdown in publishing project development during the COVID-19 pandemic appeared as a decline in the number of titles published, which fell below 400 for the first time in 5 years. As a result, although the number of returns declined, net sales, operating income, ordinary income and net income attributable to owners of the parent all declined from the previous fiscal year.」
The company continued to review production timing, quantities and sales channels and to ship quantities appropriate to demand, and reported a decline in the number of returns. Meanwhile, performance declined because fewer titles were published. - 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.」
Measures to reduce returns remain a key theme alongside planning and marketing, sales of previously published books and responding to the rising costs of publishing distribution. - 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.」
Measures to reduce returns remain a key theme alongside strengthening sales of previously published books and responding to the rising costs of publishing distribution. - FY2023-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「The company conducts activities focused on strengthening sales of previously published books and responding to the rising costs of publishing distribution, including measures to reduce returns」
Measures to reduce returns remain a key theme alongside sales of previously published books and responding to the rising costs of publishing distribution. - FY2022AdvancedAnnual report
「As a result of the decline in the number of returns, revenue was broadly unchanged, but both operating income and ordinary income declined from the previous fiscal year.」
The company states that the number of returns declined as a result of ensuring shipment quantities were appropriate to demand, providing a specific indication of the effectiveness of its return-reduction measures. - 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.」
Measures to reduce returns remain a key theme alongside planning and marketing and sales of previously published books. - FY2021-Q3AdvancedAnnual report
「As the number of new titles and reprints exceeded the previous fiscal year and returns also declined, consolidated net sales for the cumulative third quarter of the current fiscal year were ¥2,294,692 thousand, up 7.7% year on year. Operating income was ¥96,402 thousand, compared with an operating loss of ¥60,408 thousand in the same period of the previous year; ordinary income was ¥116,362 thousand, compared with an ordinary loss of ¥63,362 thousand; and quarterly net income attributable to owners of the parent was ¥96,844 thousand, compared with a quarterly net loss attributable to owners of the parent of ¥50,066 thousand.」
The company reports specific improvement, with the number of new titles and reprints exceeding the previous fiscal year and returns also declining. - FY2021-Q2AdvancedAnnual report
「Against this backdrop, our Group continued its efforts to develop new customer segments, as in the previous fiscal year, and focused on developing content that meets customer needs and reducing returns. The number of new titles and reprints exceeded the previous fiscal year, and returns also declined. As a result, consolidated net sales for the cumulative second quarter of the current fiscal year were ¥1,624,359 thousand, up 6.5% year on year, and operating income was ¥81,701 thousand, compared with an operating loss of ¥20,364 thousand in the same period of the previous year.」
The company reports specific progress while continuing measures to reduce returns, with the number of new titles and reprints exceeding the previous fiscal year and returns also declining. - FY2021-Q1AdvancedAnnual report
「The company’s activities focused on planning and marketing that accurately captured reader needs, strengthening sales of previously published books, and responding to the rising costs of publishing distribution. As a result, shipments of books and magazines were roughly unchanged from the previous year, but revenue increased because returns declined.」
The company states that, while shipment value was roughly unchanged from the previous year, returns declined and this led to higher revenue as measures to reduce returns continued. - FY2020RestatedAnnual report
「Against this backdrop, the Group continued to take on the challenge of developing new customer segments, as in the previous fiscal year, and conducted activities focused on developing content that meets customer needs and reducing returns.」
Measures to reduce returns remain a key theme alongside developing new customers and content. - FY2020-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「Against this backdrop, the Group continued to take on the challenge of developing new customer segments, as in the previous fiscal year, and conducted activities focused on developing content that meets customer needs and reducing returns.」
Although measures to reduce returns remain a key theme alongside developing new customer segments and content, no new figures, such as the return rate, are presented. - FY2020-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「The Group continued to take on the challenge of developing new customer segments and conducted activities focused on developing content that meets customer needs and reducing returns, as in the previous fiscal year, but」
Although measures to reduce returns remain a key theme, this disclosure does not present any new numerical results achieved, such as the return rate. - FY2020-Q1AdvancedAnnual report
「As in the previous fiscal year, the Group continued its efforts to develop new customer segments and focused on developing content that meets customer needs and reducing returns, but although the return rate for books and magazines declined,」
The company states that the return rates for books and magazines declined while measures to reduce returns continued. - FY2019WorsenedAnnual report
「From a sales perspective, we will respond to the earlier return of books by bookstores and work to allocate shipments even more appropriately. As bookstore closures and reductions in floor space occurred one after another, returns increased markedly as a result of the discontinuation of standing consignment arrangements and the screening out of slow-moving products,」
While the company indicated that it would continue to allocate shipments appropriately, returns increased markedly against a backdrop of store closures, reduced sales-floor space and changes in distribution practices. - FY2019-Q3WorsenedAnnual report
「In the publishing market, bookstore closures and reductions in floor space occurred one after another, while returns increased markedly as a result of the discontinuation of standing consignment arrangements and the screening out of slow-moving products.」
While measures to reduce returns continued, returns increased markedly against a backdrop of bookstore closures and reductions in floor space, the discontinuation of standing consignment arrangements and the screening out of slow-moving products. - FY2019-Q2WorsenedAnnual report
「Our Group continued its efforts to develop new customer segments, as in the previous fiscal year, and focused on developing content that meets customer needs and reducing returns. Although the number of copies of new titles increased slightly from the previous fiscal year, the number of reprinted copies fell substantially and the return rate increased.」
The company states that the return rate increased despite continuing measures to reduce returns, indicating that conditions relating to returns deteriorated. - FY2019-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「The Group continued to take on the challenge of developing new customer segments and conducted activities focused on developing content that meets customer needs and reducing returns, as in the previous fiscal year, but」
Measures to reduce returns remain a key theme alongside developing new customer segments and content. No new numerical results achieved, such as the return rate, are presented. - FY2018-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「The Group continued its activities under the themes of developing new readers, addressing reader needs and reducing returns, as in the previous fiscal year, but」
Although measures to reduce returns have remained an area of activity since the previous fiscal year, this disclosure does not present any new specific initiatives or return-rate figures. - FY2018-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「Against this backdrop, the Group continued to take on the challenge of developing new customer segments, as in the previous fiscal year, and conducted activities focused on developing content that meets customer needs and reducing returns. As a result,」
Although measures to reduce returns remain a key theme, no specific new initiatives or numerical results achieved, such as the return rate, are presented. - FY2018-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「The company conducted activities focused on developing content that meets customer needs and reducing returns」
Although measures to reduce returns remain a key theme, the current quarter’s text does not present any specific new initiatives or numerical results achieved. - FY2017AdvancedAnnual report
「Although the number of books published exceeded the previous consolidated fiscal year and returns declined as a result of active sales of previously published books and appropriate allocation of shipments, the number of reprints and the number of copies reprinted were below the previous consolidated fiscal year.」
The company reports active sales of previously published books and a reduction in returns resulting from appropriate allocation of shipments as achievements, indicating that its measures to reduce returns had a specific effect. - FY2017-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「Against this backdrop, the Group continued its activities under the themes of developing new readers, addressing reader needs and reducing returns, as in the previous fiscal year.」
Although the Group has identified measures to reduce returns as an ongoing area of activity since the previous fiscal year, no new specific measures are presented in the current quarter’s disclosure. - FY2017-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「Against this backdrop, the Group continued its activities under the themes of developing new readers, addressing reader needs and reducing returns, as in the previous fiscal year. Consolidated net sales for the cumulative second quarter were ¥1,583 million, down 6.3% year on year, operating profit was ¥46 million, down 15.9%, ordinary profit was ¥51 million, down 20.9%, and net profit attributable to owners of the parent was ¥31 million, down 1.8%.」
Although the Group has identified measures to reduce returns as an ongoing area of activity since the previous fiscal year, no new specific measures are presented in the current quarter’s disclosure. - FY2017-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「Against this backdrop, the Group continued its activities under the themes of developing new readers, addressing reader needs and reducing returns, as in the previous fiscal year. As a result, consolidated net sales for the cumulative first quarter were ¥688 million, down 10.6% year on year, operating loss was ¥37 million, compared with an operating loss of ¥12 million in the same quarter of the previous year, ordinary loss was ¥33 million, compared with an ordinary loss of ¥6 million, and net loss attributable to owners of the parent was ¥25 million, compared with a quarterly net loss of ¥8 million.」
The Group has identified measures to reduce returns as an ongoing area of activity since the previous fiscal year. - FY2016RestatedAnnual report
「Recently, our Group identified reducing returns as one of its priority policies, implemented shipment quantities appropriate to demand, and achieved significant results.」
The Group continues its policy of making reducing returns a priority and ensuring that shipment quantities are appropriate to demand. - FY2016-Q3First statedAnnual report
「As in the previous fiscal year, we conducted activities under the themes of developing new readers, addressing reader needs and reducing returns.」
Although the company has identified measures to reduce returns as an ongoing area of activity, the current quarterly report does not present specific initiatives or numerical targets.