[Company analysis] Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. (大日本印刷)

「Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. (大日本印刷)」is a world class comprehensive printing company. And it isone of the top two in Japan's domestic printing company(「Toppan Printing」,「Dai Nippon Printing(大日本印刷)」). Their main businesses are publishing, printing, information industry, daily life industry, display and electronic parts. The number of consolidated employees is approximately 38,051.

 

1. Company Profile

2. Summary and Features

3. Major Business

4. Financial Information

 

 

 

1. Company Profile

 

※Unit is JPY million, as of 2019

Company name	Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
Company name (Japanese)	大日本印刷
Date of establishment	October 9, 1876
Headquarters location	〒162-8001 東京都新宿区市谷加賀町一丁目1番1号
Capital	114,465
Consolidated sales	1,401,505
Consolidated operating profit	49,898
Consolidated total assets	1,775,022
Consolidated capital	1,046,622
Capital adequacy ratio	59.0%
Consolidated number of employees	38,051

 

 

 

2. Summary and Features

 
The predecessor of「Dai Nippon Printing」is 「Shueisha(秀英舎)」, which was established in 1876, just after the Meiji Restoration. In 1935, it merged with「Nisshin Printing Co., Ltd.(日清印刷)」, and the current「Dai Nippon Printing」was established. Since then, through the large number of mergers of printing plants in Japan, it has grown into a major printing company that is on par with「Toppan Printing」. 

「Dai Nippon Printing」and「Toppan Printing」have been in a competitive relationship for a long time.Traditionally,「Toppan printing」has advantages in sales, instead,「Dai Nippon Printin」has advantages in operating profit. However such the differences between the two companies has almost disappeared now and we can say that they are almost equal in scale. Since the 1950s,「Dai Nippon Printing」already conducted business diversification at an early stage.

Since that time, they started printing business for a variety of packaging products, from printing cigarette boxes and chicken ramen bags to retort pouches, plastic bottles and even packaging containers for space food. This company has been engaged in building materials, information industry, and lifestyle / electronics fields. In the electronics field, in the latter half of the 1950s, they carried out trial production of shadow masks used in CRT color TVs and photomasks that are essential for semiconductor manufacturing. In addition, they also developed the first type of IC card in Japan.

As「Dai Nippon Printing」have been promoting business diversification for a long time, they became less dependent on the publishing market than their competitor,「Toppan Printing」. In addition, based on the technological capabilities they have built up so far, they obtained many products that have the highest market share in the world. As a result, despite having fewer consolidated employees than「Toppan Printing」, they could achieved equal sales and operating income. Even now, they are still continuing diversification strategy, and in October 2006, 「Dai Nippon Printing」purchased the photographic film and photographic paper business from「Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.(コニカミノルタ)」.

 

 

 

3. Major Business

 

■ Information and communication business
They are developing various fields of business such as information security products such as publication related (books, magazines, encyclopedias, history textbooks, ebooks), marketing related (catalogs, leaflets, brochures, calendars, POPs, campaigns, events) and other information security products. I will.

■ Life and industry business
It covers a wide variety of fields, from packaging materials for food, beverages, confectionery, daily necessities, medical care, etc. to interior and exterior materials such as houses and furniture, three-dimensional printed products, metal plates and industrial materials with an aseptic filling system. I will.

■ Electronic business
Display-related products (color filters for liquid crystal displays, high-performance optical films, touch sensors, vapor deposition masks for manufacturing organic EL displays, etc.) and electronic devices (photomasks for semiconductor products, lead frames, MEMS (microelectromechanical system) products, etc.) 

 

 

 

4. Financial information

 

※Unit is JPY million

		2016	2017	2018
Consolidated sales		1,410,172	1,412,251	1,401,505
Consolidated operating profit		31,410	46,372	49,898
Consolidated total assets		1,741,904	1,810,498	1,775,022
Consolidated net assets		1,181,286	1,102,550	1,046,622
Breakdown of sales	Information and communication business	797,046	774,997	757,902
	Life and industry business	387,142	392,458	395,182
	Electronic business	169,402	188,745	192,436
	Softdrink business	56,581	56,049	55,984