President's Message

The DNP Group has always grown by anticipating changes in society and people’s lives, combining advanced printing technologies, and expanding their application scopes. In recent years, the business environment has been changing even faster and increasing in complexity as a result of technological innovation, rising geopolitical risks, and other factors. To achieve sustainable growth in the midst of this, we are not only providing value by meeting customer needs, as we have in the past, but also continuing to drive transformation and create new value that helps shape a better future.

2026 was a milestone for DNP, as we celebrated our 150th anniversary. We see this as a key turning point for us as we further deepen the strengths we have developed and create new value. More than ever, we will embrace the challenges facing society and people as our own, transform risks into business opportunities, and proactively create and implement value across society. Through this process of evolution, we will achieve our Third Corporate Founding.

DNP’s competitiveness is rooted in its printing technologies and production process expertise, which have evolved and found application in a wide range of fields through the pursuit of solutions to complex challenges. We systematically refine our technologies, develop and manufacture production equipment in-house, and pursue our patent strategies to build a multifaceted business structure while deploying the value we create throughout society. The ability to achieve sustained growth while evolving far beyond its origins as a printing company is extremely rare worldwide and represents a distinctive strength of DNP.

We are also deepening our partnerships with universities, research institutions, other companies, and local governments, as well as opening research and development sites overseas. We are dedicated to acquiring and commercializing new technologies that will support our future growth. With our eyes set on the future, we will continue to actively invest in growth and accelerate our creation of new value.

Under the FY2026–2028 Medium-Term Management Plan, which is now in progress, we will leverage the results of achieving our performance targets through past growth investment and strengthening our business foundation through structural reforms. In the final year of the plan, we aim to achieve a record high operating profit of 130 billion yen and transition to the new stage of growth. While centering on our focus businesses with profitability and significant market growth potential, we will accelerate expansion into adjacent business areas to broaden our earnings base. At the same time, we will create new markets and new value for our existing businesses, extending our business as we boost our capital efficiency.

DNP believes that the source of value creation is none other than people. We value each and every employee and strive to empower them to take on new challenges. Since 2019, we have placed even greater emphasis on investing in people and reforming our human resource systems, and we are working to foster a more resilient corporate culture. I personally visit our sites in Japan and overseas and, through town hall meetings and other opportunities for open and ongoing TAIWA with employees, communicate the company's thinking directly while listening to the voice of each employee. Through these dialogue, we are transforming our corporate culture into one in which employees actively take on the challenges of value creation.

Under our current Medium-Term Management Plan, we plan to invest approximately 35 billion yen in human capital over the course of three years. We will enhance human creativity and accelerate value creation through initiatives such as reskilling, the development of DX talent, and the preparation of a foundation that enables diverse personnel to thrive. We will also implement non-financial strategies, including strengthening intellectual capital and implementing environmental initiatives, and we will use the results to achieve sustainable growth.

Uncertainty is rising worldwide, and precisely because of that, it is important that we anticipate future changes from multiple perspectives, make speedy and appropriate decisions, put them into practice, and play a lead role in driving transformation. We will leverage the crisis response expertise we have developed through the years and our wide-ranging business strengths centered on printing technologies to transform risks into new business opportunities. Going forward, we will continue to engage in TAIWA with stakeholders, strive to sustainably enhance corporate value, and help create a better future.

September 2026