DENSO Corporation recently announced a rise in global consolidated net sales, due in large part to an increase in overseas car production for Japanese auto manufacturers and the depreciated yen. The company's consolidated net sales totaled 1,947.8 billion yen ($16.9 billion), a 14.5 percent increase from the previous year. DENSO's consolidated operating income totaled 169.1 billion yen ($1.5 billion), a 22.3 percent increase from the previous year, while its consolidated net income totaled 118.3 billion yen ($1 billion), a 25.7 percent increase from the previous year. "In spite of rising raw material costs and the increases in labor and depreciation costs, increased production volume and foreign exchange gain led to an increase in income," says Koji Kobayashi, senior managing director of DENSO Corporation. In Japan, sales totaled 1,309.1 billion yen ($11.3 billion), an 8.1 percent increase from the previous year. Despite a sales increase led by growing export of vehicles and sales expansion for Lexus models, the increase in depreciation costs associated with a tax law change in Japan and rising material costs led to operating income of 95.3 billion yen ($825.3 million), a 2.5 percent decrease from the previous year. In North, Central and South America, increased production volume for Japanese auto manufacturers and sales expansion to General Motors and Ford led to an increase in sales to 429.7 billion yen ($3.7 billion), a 15.8 percent increase from the previous year. Operating income increased to 23.3 billion yen ($202.2 million), an increase of 71.4 percent from the previous year. Increased production volume and cost reduction efforts resulted in an increase in operating income. In Europe, sales expansion to Ford, Fiat, OPEL and PSA led to 298.7 billion yen ($2.6 billion) in sales, a 25.1 percent increase from the previous year. Operating income more than doubled from 5.1 billion yen ($44.3 million) the previous year to 11.4 billion yen ($99.1 million), due to increased production volumes of air conditioners in the Czech Republic, Italy and Spain, and diesel common rail systems in Hungary. In Asia, sales totaled 298.8 billion yen ($2.6 billion), a 37.1 percent increase from the previous year, thanks to the recovering ASEAN automotive market and strong production from Japanese auto manufacturers in China. Operating income totaled 38.3 billion yen ($331.9 million), a 79.2 percent increase from the previous year. In addition to the stable expansion of China operations, sales expansion of air conditioners in Indonesia and diesel common rail systems in Thailand resulted in the significant increase in operating income. "As a result of our good financial results in this interim period, we have revised and raised our fiscal year 2007 estimate announced on April 26, 2007," Kobayashi says. The company's revised projection for the coming fiscal year includes net sales of 3.950.0 billion yen ($34.2 billion, an increase of 9.4 percent from the previous fiscal year, and a net income of 228.0 billion yen ($2 billion), an increase of 11.1 percent from the previous year. |
