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TAIYO YUDEN Announces an Earnings Forecast Revision along with an Expected Extraordinary Loss from Soliciting Employees for Voluntary Retirement TOKYO, December 26, 2011 – TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD. (“the Company”) is announcing a decision on voluntary retirement from today’s Board of Directors meeting. voluntary retirement.
The Company is asking employees to accept
Details pertaining to the solicitation of voluntary retirement are discussed below.
The Company also announced revisions to its consolidated full-year earnings forecast released on November 9, 2011 for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2012 for the period from April 1, 2011 to March 31, 2012.
The
decision to solicit voluntary retirement will result in an extraordinary loss in this fiscal year. 1. Reason for Soliciting Employees for Voluntary Retirement As stated by the Company on November 9, 2011 in the press release titled “TAIYO YUDEN Announces the Reasons for Discrepancies between Consolidated Forecast and Actual Results, Earnings Forecast Revisions, and Reversal of Deferred Tax Assets,” the Company made a significant downward revision to its consolidated earnings forecast for the fiscal year ending March 2012 and expects to record a net loss for the fourth consecutive fiscal year. The Company will implement measures that balance both structural reforms and growth strategies in order to improve profitability in the face of the challenging operating environment seen today and expected in the future.
The Company has established a target and related actions to reduce fixed costs by ¥10,000
million before the end of March 2013.
One of these actions is to solicit employees to accept voluntary
retirement. 2. Summary of Solicitation for Voluntary Retirement: (1) Number of employees to solicit:
Approximately 330
(2) Target employees:
All employees of TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
(3) Solicitation period:
March 1, 2012 to March 8, 2012
(4) Retirement date:
March 31, 2012 (planned)
(5) Benefits for retirees: payment.
Employees that volunteer for this program will receive special extra retirement
The Company will also provide re-employment assistance to employees.
3. Future Outlook The Company plans to allocate ¥3,200 million as a business structure improvement expenses allocated for special extra retirement payments to be provided to employees participating in the aforementioned voluntary retirement program.
This provision will be recorded as an extraordinary loss on the Company’s consolidated
financial statements in the fourth quarter of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2012.
4. Revision to the Company’s Earnings Forecast (1) Full-year consolidated fiscal year ending March 2012 (period from April 1, 2011 to March 31, 2012)
Operating Income
Net Sales Previous (A) Forecast Revised (B) Forecast Net Change (B – A) Net Change [％] (Reference) Full-year for the fiscal year ended March 2011
Ordinary Income
(Unit: Millions of yen) Net Income Net Income (Loss) per (Loss) Share [Yen]
189,000
(7,000)
(10,000)
(16,000)
(136.07)
189,000
(7,000)
(10,000)
(19,200)
(163.29)
0 0
0 0
0 0
(3,200) -
210,401
8,792
6,740
(5,506)
(46.82)
(2) Reason for the Revision This revision was made to the Company’s consolidated full-year earnings forecast due to an extraordinary loss realized for business structure improvement expenses.
Specifically, the provision is for special extra
retirement payments to employees participating in the voluntary retirement program. Disclaimer concerning Forecasts of Results: The aforementioned forecasts of results are based on information available as of the date of this news release. As a result, information included in this document may include uncertain factors, and actual results may differ materially from forecasts due to a variety of factors.