Frequently Asked Questions

What kind of company is DNP?

The Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) Group is a comprehensive printing company that continues to provide new value in Japan and abroad toward the realization of a sustainable and better society as well as more comfortable lifestyles. By combining our strengths in "P&I" (printing and information), which we have independently refined, we deepen our collaboration with many partners and provide a diverse range of products and services across a wide range of fields to tens of thousands of client companies, various organizations, consumers, and local communities.

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About Us

What are DNP’s goals?

With the corporate philosophy, “The DNP Group connects individuals and society, and provides new value,” we focus on solving social issues while creating value that exceeds people's expectations. Believing that DNP has a mission to make the future better, we have embodied our commitment to making the value we provide a constant and familiar presence in people’s lives in our brand statement, “Creating future standards.”

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DNP's Goals

What kind of business is DNP engaged in?

DNP's business consists of the Smart Communications Division, which accounts for 49.0% of consolidated sales, the Life & Healthcare Division at 34.0%, and the Electronics Division at 17.0% (fiscal year ended March 2025).

In the Smart Communications Division, we operate businesses related to photo printing, including dye-sublimation media; BPO, authentication and security, XR communication; and education. Our Life & Healthcare Division focuses on battery pouches for lithium-ion batteries, decorative materials for mobility interiors and exteriors, active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturing, medical packaging, and packaging and living space–related businesses. In the Electronics Division, we operate businesses related to display products, optical films, and semiconductors.

These divisions work together to form a well-balanced business portfolio.

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Our Business

Products and Services

Could you please tell me about DNP's unique strengths and how it utilizes these strengths in its business activities?

By combining DNP’s unique strengths in “Printing & Information” with the technologies and ideas of our external partners, we will drive transformation that creates unprecedented value and proactively shape a better future. We constantly refine our diverse printing-based technologies to remain at the forefront, integrating them with our strengths in sales, planning, manufacturing, and management to maximize synergies. We will continue to leverage our unique hybrid strengths, bridging analog and digital, real and virtual, and monozukuri (manufacturing) and services.

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About Us

How was the DNP Group established?

Shueisha, founded in 1876, and Nisshin Printing, founded in 1910, merged in 1935 to form Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. After developing its business primarily in publishing and printing, the company formulated its five-year reconstruction plan in 1951 after the war and promoted expansion printing to expand its business areas through the application and development of printing technology. DNP positions this initiative as the second corporate founding. Currently, DNP not only meets the needs of its client companies but also engages directly with society and consumers, taking the initiative to provide everyday value that supports a better future. Viewing this major transformation as its third corporate founding, DNP is taking on the challenge of achieving it through company-wide efforts.

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Corporate History

What are DNP's technological strengths?

DNP's strengths are further enhanced by combining our diverse technologies in printing and information. Using technologies derived from the basic printing process as a foundation, we continuously refine them to remain at the forefront and apply and develop them to create a wide range of businesses. We will continue to create new value by combining microfabrication, precision coating, and post-processing technologies that form the foundation of monozukuri (manufacturing), as well as technologies in planning, design, information processing, material development, and evaluation and analysis, with our strengths in sales, planning, and manufacturing and the strengths of our partners.

As digital transformation (DX) accelerates, DNP will develop a diverse range of business models by leveraging its unique hybrid strengths—bridging analog and digital, real and virtual, and monozukuri (manufacturing) and services.

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R&D Policy and Structure

Intellectual Property Activities

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What are DNP's initiatives for the environment (E)?

DNP takes a long-term perspective and is committed to creating value that people and society desire on the premise of coexistence between its business activities and the global environment. In March 2020, the company formulated the "DNP Group Environmental Vision 2050" to show what we expect to accomplish moving toward the year 2050. The company is further accelerating specific activities to achieve a decarbonized society, a recycling-oriented society, and a society in harmony with nature. In addition to focusing on developing products and services with low environmental impact and high added value, the company is working to reduce water usage and conserve biodiversity, and plans to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from business activities at its own sites to virtually zero by 2050.

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Environmental Initiatives

What are DNP's initiatives for society (S)?

To continue delivering value to diverse people in a diverse society, DNP must thoroughly promote “Diversity & Inclusion.” We are committed to demonstrating the comprehensive strength of the entire DNP Group by eliminating gender gaps and combining each individual’s strengths, regardless of disability, to maximize our collective capabilities. Furthermore, we recognize that protecting the rights of everyone involved with DNP, both inside and outside the company, is a fundamental corporate responsibility, and we are strengthening our initiatives related to human rights.

DNP is built on a culture of constant challenge and transformation. To advance this commitment, we monitor social trends and assess global challenges. Guided by our core belief that “we cherish our employees, and in turn, those employees drive corporate growth and enrich society,” we are proactively restructuring our human resources systems.

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Social Initiatives

What are DNP's initiatives for governance (G)?

DNP believes that enhancing corporate governance is a key management priority in order to contribute to the sustainable development of society, improve its corporate value, and become a company trusted by all stakeholders. We are working to build and operate a system that ensures sound management decision-making, appropriate and swift business execution based on those decisions, and effective supervision and auditing of such execution. While adopting the organizational structure of a company with an Audit and Supervisory Board, in addition to introducing outside directors and an executive officer system, we have established and operate voluntary committees to ensure the appropriateness, timeliness, flexibility, and diversity of the Board of Directors, and are working to achieve sustainable growth and enhance corporate value over the medium to long term.

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Governance