Mazda, an automobile manufacturer, reported that its nine-month financial results for the nine months to December last year were flat due to a shortage of semiconductors, but due to cost reductions, operating income turned from a deficit in the previous year. It became a surplus of 63.6 billion yen.
Mazda announced on the 10th that the group's financial results for the nine months until December last year showed sales of 2,162.3 billion yen, up 10% from the same period of the previous year, and operating income of the previous year. It turned from a deficit of 31.9 billion yen to a surplus of 63.6 billion yen.
This was due to a global shortage of semiconductors and the spread of the new corona infection, and the supply of parts from Southeast Asia was stagnant. This is because we have reduced the cost for sales promotion in the growing American market.
On the other hand, regarding the business outlook for the current fiscal year, sales will be 3.1 trillion yen, which is 100 billion yen less than the previous forecast, and operating income will be 82 billion yen, which is 17 billion yen higher, as efforts to further reduce costs are taken. doing.
Mazda says, "Although the situation is severe due to soaring raw material prices and the impact of semiconductor shortages, we would like to achieve full-scale growth without slowing down our efforts to strengthen our management base."