Formulating Daifuku’s Long-Term Vision, Driving Innovative Impact 2030, and the Four-Year Business Plan for 2027
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“This vision encompasses our strong desire to achieve even greater economic and social value by strengthening our initiatives with new future-oriented ideas and trailblazing groundbreaking change for our stakeholders.”
This statement encapsulates the long-term vision of the Daifuku Group, Driving Innovative Impact 2030, established in May 2024. This vision outlines Daifuku’s long-term aspirations for 2030, highlighting our goal of surpassing conventional boundaries and achieving significant growth in both economic and social value. Meanwhile, we have also established a four-year business plan with specific management targets for 2027, marking the midpoint of our long-term goals.
This article summarizes the key points of our vision and the four-year plan.
Toward consolidated sales of 1 trillion yen by 2030
Historically, the Daifuku Group has formulated its medium-term business plans based on then-present business environments and short-term analysis of the next three years.
For this plan, however, we first considered the future societal landscape and associated challenges, and from that we used backcasting to determine what our long-term vision for Daifuku is. From an economic perspective, our goal is to achieve 1 trillion yen in consolidated sales with an operating margin of 12.5% and an ROE of 13%.
We then used this long-term vision to formulate the four-year business plan for 2027, with targets for 800 billion yen in consolidated sales, an operating margin of 11.5%, and an ROE of 13%.
Creating greater social value through automation
We have also integrated our economic and social value goals, which until now were formulated separately. Utilizing Daifuku’s strength in automated material handling technology, we remain dedicated to supporting social infrastructure such as logistics and production sites by meeting our customers’ needs for automation and unmanned operation. Going forward, we aim to create even greater social value by utilizing our technology to address new social issues in areas such as food and the environment.

Making our vision and goals a reality
To realize our vision and goals, we have set priority topics for our business and our operational and business framework that must be addressed by the Group. For example, under business domains, we will evolve our existing businesses to realize solutions that provide fully-unmanned operations, expand into new areas by entering emerging markets, and utilize cutting-edge technology to develop next-generation solutions. To strengthen our overall approach, we have established a cross-functional division directly under the president to promote development of new businesses and cutting-edge technologies. Furthermore, to bolster our growth, we will invest in facility maintenance, facility renewal, and R&D, and have also created a 80-billion-yen strategic investment plan for expanding production facilities, building up human capital, and more. Renovations under this plan are already underway at our flagship plant, Shiga Works.

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