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Funai sells stock to Tokio Marine as QPS lifts profit on timing
A consultancy sells stock to keep its cash cushion, a space company lifts profit on subsidy timing, and China gets another corporate reality check.
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Funai Soken places 2.2% treasury stake with Tokio Marine to protect its cash buffer
The move: Funai Soken will place 2.196mn treasury shares with Tokio Marine at ¥1,067 apiece, accepting 2.20% dilution to fund working capital and deepen a capital-and-business alliance aimed at SME consulting and risk management.
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QPS raises profit forecast on early JAXA subsidy booking, even as sales slip
Read moreThe catch: QPS now expects revenue of ¥3.8bn, 5% below its April forecast, but earlier recognition of ¥144mn in JAXA subsidy income and a ¥100mn deferred-tax asset lift ordinary profit and net income guidance to ¥1.1bn.
Nippon Filcon raises full-year profit targets on stronger electronics demand and lower costs
Read moreThe move: sales guidance for the year to November rose to ¥28.5bn, but the bigger change is profit, with operating profit lifted to ¥1.4bn as electronic components and photomasks held up and costs ran lower than planned.
ASTI to sell 32-year China auto-electronics unit
Read moreThe move: ASTI will sell its wholly owned Zhejiang manufacturing subsidiary, a maker of wire harnesses and ECUs, after saying slower Chinese growth and stronger domestic rivals made the unit a worse use of management resources.
Synspective selected for eight-market SAR monitoring pilot, with ¥222.9mn subsidy request
Read moreThe project would fund two-thirds of eligible costs through March 2028 as the company tests mine-site surveillance and illegal-vessel detection in Latin America and Asia-Pacific, but the final award is still undecided.
KTK keeps annual targets as toner demand and IT cross-sell lift profit
Read moreOperating profit rose to ¥418.8mn, or 83.8% of KTK's full-year goal, as higher-margin reuse toner and IT cross-selling lifted both segments and left guidance unchanged.
Nippon Beet Sugar Manufacturing approves Nitten rebrand, special dividend and one-year director terms
Read moreThe move: shareholders approved an October rename to Nitten, a 160 yen year-end dividend with an 80 yen special payout, and one-year director terms as management says the business now extends beyond beet sugar into food, feed and agricultural materials.
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Hankyu Hanshin has used 74.4% of its buyback budget by June-end
Read moreThe number: June repurchases of ¥13.36bn lifted Hankyu Hanshin's total to ¥22.31bn and 4,868,700 shares, equal to 74.4% of the current ¥30bn authorisation by June 30.
PPIH takes Olympic Group to 100% ownership, keeps earnings impact under review
Read moreThe share exchange took effect on July 1, giving Pan Pacific International Holdings full control of Olympic Group, but the company says the effect on future consolidated earnings is still being examined.
Obic buyback goes quiet in June, cumulative spend stays at ¥10.0bn
Read moreObic bought no shares in June under its ¥50.0bn repurchase plan, leaving the cumulative tally at 2,395,900 shares and ¥10.0bn with the programme still open through March 2027.
Japan’s live-caption grant funds equipment, not installation
Read moreNICT’s third-round support for live-broadcast subtitling covers captioning equipment and system connection work, but surveys, installation, broader retrofits and maintenance stay outside the subsidy.