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The company is hiring aggressively to build capacity, which could help it win bigger, higher-value consulting work even if profits look messy in the near term. It also keeps its outlook steady and points to deal-making as another growth lever, but the big question is whether the new team can be kept busy fast enough.Read more

Duskin’s food business keeps delivering steady results, and there are early signs its struggling services arm may be turning a corner through new offerings and pricing changes. A planned return to China through a local partner could add a fresh growth path, but the company still needs to prove its core cleaning service can stop losing ground.Read more

Japan Elevator Service keeps growing even as more of its work shifts toward upgrades, and it says it’s holding up profits through better pricing and productivity. The company is also hiring more salespeople to win more maintenance customers, but the stock already assumes a lot goes right.Read more

Japan’s third-largest office equipment supplier is riding stronger demand and better profitability, and it’s pushing a broader overhaul that includes tighter governance and more data- and AI-led workplace services. The key question is whether this shift can keep boosting results and change how investors view the business.Read more

Persol’s staffing business faces a squeeze as Japan’s workforce shrinks and more hiring shifts to automation and tech platforms. The big question is whether its push into new services, technology spending, and deals can offset those pressures or if growth and profits slow.Read more

Recruit Holdings is betting on automation and smarter software to run its hiring platforms more efficiently, so it can grow profits even if hiring stays slow. But if job demand stays weak or employers are slow to adopt new tools like its newer platform, the company could struggle to restart growth while rivals move faster.Read more

Persol is betting on new AI tools and a Microsoft partnership to match people to jobs faster and build a stronger pool of digital talent, which could help the business grow and run more efficiently. But higher spending and slower progress in some units could squeeze profits, especially as older pandemic-era work fades.Read more

Recruit Holdings is betting that smarter software and the shift to digital hiring can make its job and HR platforms far more useful to both employers and job seekers, especially as hiring picks up again. But the same wave of automation and deep-pocketed rivals could make recruiting tools feel interchangeable, squeezing growth and profits.Read more

TOPPAN is trying to reinvent itself from a printing company into a global supplier of eco-friendly packaging, digital ID and security services, and electronics materials. The upside rests on whether these newer businesses can grow fast enough—and whether the costly shift and shrinking print demand don’t drag results down.Read more