Earnings, deals and disclosures from Japan's listed retail & consumer companies, in English.
A gain from losing control of its real-estate subsidiary lifted Sapporo Breweries' first-half net profit by ¥293.7bn to ¥295.4bn, even as the newly renamed brewer's operating business posted a ¥5.9bn loss on restructuring and impairment charges.
A one-off ¥315bn gain from ceding control of its real estate arm pushed Sapporo Breweries' half-year net profit up ¥293.7bn to ¥295.4bn, even as its continuing operations swung into a ¥5.9bn operating loss.
The brewer's fresh four-year plan raises its dividend-on-equity goal to 5%, pencils in about ¥170bn of buybacks and ¥80bn of dividends through 2030, and spreads ¥300bn to ¥400bn of growth money across North American and Vietnamese brewing capacity, Asian distribution and domestic drink investment rather than a single project.
McDonald's Japan raised its full-year profit forecast after half-year operating profit jumped 15.2% and same-store sales notched a 43rd straight quarterly gain, even though the revised sales outlook still trails 2025's total of ¥416.6bn.
Kirin Holdings will pay CAD45.75 a share, about ¥218.3bn in total, for full control of Jamieson Wellness, extending its health science push into North America after building a base in Asia and Oceania through Blackmores and FANCL.
Suntory Beverage & Food's operating profit rose 3% for the six months to June, but strip out currency translation and it fell 5.4%, with Europe's margins the weak spot and Oceania the standout region.
Inbound tourists and rising secondhand watch prices drove a 95% sales jump at Geo Holdings' luxury resale unit OKURA in the June quarter, helping push group operating profit up a third even as new-product sales cooled.
A looming 2027 energy-efficiency deadline pushed Japanese households to replace air conditioners early, lifting Yamada Holdings' operating profit 16.8% in the June quarter even as its homebuilding arm's profit fell 88% on higher material costs and marketing spend.
House Foods grew quarterly operating profit 17% yet still cut its full-year forecast by ¥1.0bn, blaming Middle East-linked cost increases of up to ¥3.0bn on its spice business, and it is closing a New Jersey plant-based meat factory that never found enough buyers.
A ¥45.5bn gain from selling its stake in DuPont Teijin Advanced Papers handed Teijin ¥45.1bn in net profit for the quarter to June, already matching the ¥45.0bn it guided for the full year to March 2027.
NH Foods' fresh-meat unit raised import prices fast enough to drive a 19.5% jump in quarterly business profit, but its processed-foods segment lost 13.9% of its profit to a Middle East-linked raw-material cost spike, even as net profit slipped 5.6%.
Seven & i Holdings landed ¥100,300 short of its ¥400bn share-buyback ceiling in a single Tokyo Stock Exchange trade on August 3, and nearly ¥367bn of that deal carries a placeholder price that SMBC Nikko Securities will true up later against the stock's future trading average.
Kagome trimmed full-year profit guidance by ¥4bn to ¥19.0bn after a ¥2.8bn Middle East cost hit, while its two mass-market vegetable drinks are still stuck below prior-year sales five months after a price increase that its premium Tomato Juice brand shrugged off.
An explosion killed seven people at AEON Mall Kumamoto just after evacuation from a magnitude-7 earthquake was completed, and AEON still won't estimate what shutting the 204-tenant mall will cost.
Calbee's operating profit rose 24.4% in the quarter to June as price rises and expansion in Greater China and Indonesia outweighed a domestic potato shortfall hitting a mainstay snack, yet the company left its full-year forecast untouched.
Cacao and fat costs, plus depreciation on new gummy and bottled-water equipment, cut Fujiya's first-half operating profit by three-quarters and left profit attributable to the company's shareholders at a ¥74mn loss even as sales grew 4.8% to ¥59.41bn.
A ransomware attack in September that let an intruder roam Asahi Group Holdings' Japan network delayed the brewer's annual securities report by four months and forced a rare admission that its internal controls over financial reporting were not effective for the year to December 2025, even though auditors signed off on the underlying numbers.
A single ToSTNeT-3 off-auction purchase on July 27 used up more than half of the ¥1.2bn share buyback the sauce maker's board approved just three months earlier.
The operator of Japan's SOKUYAKU online-clinic and prescription service will build joint drone depots with a Tokyo drone-logistics firm to get medicine to mountain villages and remote islands, though the filing itself gives no cost or revenue figure for the plan.
B-R 31 Ice Cream, which runs Baskin-Robbins in Japan, booked record first-half sales of ¥18.55bn on a 21st straight quarter of same-store growth, yet operating profit fell to ¥1.42bn from ¥1.70bn as raw-material costs, the weak yen, and heavier marketing and shipping bills ate into margins.
Nichirei says personal information stored on some breached servers was exposed and is notifying those affected, while still withholding how the attack happened as it works with police and outside security specialists.
Komehyo's June sales rose 30.5% year-on-year to ¥21.26bn, a marked slowdown from April's 51.5% and May's 50.5% gains, though duty-free shoppers still accounted for nearly 16% of the month's revenue and retail sales ran ahead of plan.
148 employees took Takara Bio's voluntary retirement offer against a target of about 120, lifting the one-off charge to ¥1.71bn, while the delisted biotech signs a basic agreement to hand its GMP cell-processing business to a Sumitomo Chemical and Sumitomo Pharma joint venture ahead of a target final contract in October.
Meiji Holdings is selling its loss-making China milk, yogurt and B2B business to a dairy group it partly owns for about ¥7.6bn, while holding onto yogurt intellectual property and its Guangzhou plant, which switches to making cacao products.