business performance

Mitsuboshi Belting Reports Double-Digit FY2021 Sales Growth

Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd. (TYO:5192) has reported increases to both sales and profits for the fiscal year through March 2022. Sales increased 15.4 percent from the previous year to 74.87 billion yen ($580 million), while operating income increased 53.8 percent to 7.64 billion yen. The company noted that business began to recover gradually during the second half of fiscal 2020, with...

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Japanese Tire Manufacturers Face Surging Costs Despite Results Recovery for 2021

Japan’s major tire manufacturers have now all released their business results for calendar 2021 – showing a significant recovery compared to 2020, when COVID-related production restrictions and other such factors caused business to slump significantly. For 2022, however, these companies are expecting a rough year, with projections that the surging costs of raw materials and marine freight will make for...

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Bridgestone’s Hose Business Sees V-Shaped Demand Recovery Both Domestically and Abroad

Bridgestone Corp.’s (TYO:5108) hose business has shown promising trends with its first-half results for calendar 2021. With demand marking a V-shaped recovery from last year both in Japan and overseas, the company’s business here has managed year-on-year increases in both sales revenue and profit, with the former of these metrics rising by double digits. Domestically, hose demand in OE applications...

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Bridgestone’s Conveyor Belt Business Sees Domestic Sales Slip Amid COVID-19

Sales revenue from Bridgestone Corp.’s (TYO:5108) domestic conveyor belt business fell slightly year-on-year for the first half of calendar 2020, the company has revealed. While conveyor belt sales to the iron and steel industry were largely unchanged from the previous year, those to more general users were down due to customers putting plans on hold amid COVID-19, causing the business’s...

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Bridgestone Forecasts Second COVID Wave Will Reduce 2020 Demand

Bridgestone Corp. (TYO:5108) has announced its business results forecast for the full fiscal year through December 2020, including an adjustment for anticipated decline in demand during the October–December fourth quarter due to a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The forecast calls for total sales revenue of 2.89 trillion yen ($28 billion), a 7 percent increase from the previous forecast...

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Interview: Gates Unitta Asia VP Shuji Miyamoto Sees Recovery in Q3 of Calendar Year

After taking a hit from COVID-19, Gates Unitta Asia Co. (GUA) now sees signs of recovery as it heads into the third quarter of the calendar year. Japan Rubber Weekly recently sat down with Shuji Miyamoto, who serves as VP at the auto parts supplier, to get some insight into the company’s business results, overseas performance and management strategies. Miyamoto...

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