With the increasing the need of diversity and complexity of healthcare and intensifying competition in global markets, pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers are required to adapt their operations to refocusing their resources on core businesses.
According to earnings released Thursday, the telco with more than 700 million mobile subscribers, attributed the net profit increase for the first six months ending June 30, 2013, to the intensifying competition especially from the Internet business.
However, as lending margins narrow significantly due to intensified competition among financial institutions, they eventually will lose their incentives to engage in information production activities that are costly, such as the assessment of a manager's talent and a project's future business value.
With respect to international finance, Japanese financial institutions have generally maintained a high quality of overseas loans' portfolios, but have shown some increase in lending to relatively high-risk firms amid the intensified competition with overseas financial institutions and higher foreign currency funding costs.
The portfolio quality of Japanese financial institutions' overseas loans has remained high on the whole, but some financial institutions have increased lending to relatively high-risk firms, driven by intensified competition with overseas financial institutions and higher foreign currency funding costs.
Although active lending by financial institutions has been the direct cause of the formation of bubbles in advanced economies, these institutions' lending attitudes became aggressive as a result of fierce competition and an associated decline in profitability triggered by financial liberalization.
There are more than 500 regional banks, shinkin banks, and credit cooperatives in total, and these institutions face the chronic and common shock of a decline in population and the number of firms, and they hold common exposure of a decline in net interest income resulting from intensified competition.
Thus, the struggling connector sales of Electrical and Electronic Components Business were made up for by the strong performances of Automotive Components Business and Equipment Business, and we increased our revenue and achieved 52.6 billion yen in sales. However, as a result of intensifying competition, we experienced reduction in profit, with 0.7 billion yen in operating profit and 0.6 billion yen in ordinary profit.
As a partner with long-term perspectives, it works to find solutions to issues that have affected Japanese companies in recent years, such as escalating competition in domestic and overseas markets, and business succession problems. Using the wide-ranging networks and expertise of the Three Sponsors, it helps portfolio companies to achieve independence and sustainability and growth toward the next phase of development.
Specifically, in addition to uncertainties regarding the supply capacity in the labor market and medium- to long-term inflation expectations, the chair mentioned the possibility that factors such as increasing competition with emerging economies, reflecting globalization, and a rapid spread of the use of online shopping backed by advances in technology could affect price developments.
Excess in the number of financial institutions' branches for each municipality Link to enlarged chart[PDF 88KB] Challenges from a macroprudential perspective The decline in population and the number of firms is a common shock occurring across Japan. In this situation, the intensification of competition among regional financial institutions would affect the systemic risk by increasing the effects of a common exposure, that is, by decreasing net interest income.
Turning our focus towards the business environment, numerous changes are expected, including enhanced/diversified requirement standards for services, a bleak investment environment due in part to an escalation in competition on the back of low interest rates and a rise in construction costs, a decline in population and expansion of the senior market in Japan, an expansion of the stock-type businesses in the real estate market and diversification of real estate investment assets, and an acceleration of growth in countries and cities in Asia.
ハンバーガー市場は競争激化。
The hamburger restaurant market is highly competitive.
世界の金融センターでの競争激化。
There is a competition between financial centres in the world.
FoldableOLEDの核心、カバーウィンドウの競争激化。
OLED lighting 시장에서도 flexible 본격화.
課題の第三は、新興国との競争激化です。
The third issue is the intensification of competition with newly industrialized economies.
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