In the fiscal year ended March 2012, the business was affected by declining demand from manufacturers of consumer equipments, such as TVs, information equipments, such as PCs, and components like LCD panels. Sales declined by 16.8% year over year, to ¥84,462 million.

During the fiscal year ending March 2013, TAIYO YUDEN will launch a number of super-high-end products such as extremely small EIA 01005 size　(0.4mm x 0.2mm) and EIA 0201 size (0.6mm x 0.3mm) capacitors. These new components are targeted to support markets poised for continuing demand growth, such as smartphones and tablet PCs. In order to promote sales growth, the Company is aggressively targeting the market for electrolytic capacitors with a high capacitance of 100μF and above, while trying to encourage growth in the market for multilayer ceramic capacitors. TAIYO YUDEN is also focusing its energies to promote products into high-quality product markets such as the industrial equipment, automotive and health care industries, by expanding its lineup of products aimed to support these sectors.

The Company is also working to optimize the use of production facilities to achieve high efficiencies. These efforts include the transfer of the production of many high-end components formerly made in Japan to overseas production sites.