KONICA MINOLTA Konica Minolta Group March 2014 Consolidated Financial Results  


Business Technology Business - Status of manufacturing cost reductions and SG&A expenses

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This page shows changes in our manufacturing costs and SG&A expenses.
All together, we cut manufacturing costs by ¥8.1 billion, including lowering of fixed costs by ¥4.6 billion. One of the improvements was the normalization of our production site reorganization. There were also ¥3.5 billion in cuts to variable costs, including procurement.
SG&A expenses rose ¥18 billion, of which ¥8.8 billion was due to M&As and ¥9.2 billion was due mainly to investment in human capital to strengthen IT solutions and GMA.