Engagement with Stakeholders

Engagement with stakeholders

We believe that constructive dialogue to enhance corporate value is important to deepen mutual trust with all stakeholders.

Main contact opportunities and tools with stakeholders

In addition, we strive to communicate the Group's ESG activities to shareholders and investors at briefings for individual investors and IR activities.

Policy for Dialog with Shareholders / Investor

• Respondents to dialog with shareholders and investors
  ・A specialized department (hereafter, referred to as the "IR Department") will be established to plan and implement activities for dialog with shareholders and investors, and the Director of Supervisor of Group Business Management will supervise it.
  ・Carrying out interviews with shareholders and investors is not only the responsibility of the IR Department. Directors including Outside Directors, or Auditor & Supervisory Board Members will also be responsible, as necessary, in response to dialog requests and subjects.
• Internal cooperation
  ・In order to facilitate a smooth and rational dialog with shareholders and investors, the IR Department will exchange opinions and share information with the Business Department and Management Department as necessary and will go ahead with the response.
• Initiatives to enhance the means of dialog
  ・In addition to the General Meeting of Shareholders and individual interviews, dialog will be held through briefing sessions for the medium-term management plan, financial results, and individual business, and seminars for individual investors. We will encourage shareholders and investors to deepen their understanding of our management and financial strategies, corporate governance, and response to environmental and social issues.
  ・We will establish an environment in which all shareholders can exercise their rights appropriately. We will achieve this by creating an English translation of the Convocation Notice of the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders, and enabling the use of the platform for exercising voting rights by electronic means.
• Reports to the Board of Directors, etc.
  ・The IR Department will report any opinions or doubts obtained through dialog with shareholders and investors to the directors including Outside Directors, Audit & Supervisory Board Members, and business department heads, on a quarterly basis, and discuss the management implications.
• Management of insider information, etc.
  ・In dialog with shareholders and investors, we will strictly manage important information in accordance with the "Basic Policy on Information Disclosure" prescribed separately so that important information is not disclosed to specific individuals on a selective basis.
  ・In order to prevent the disclosure of account information from being published and to ensure fairness, the "silence period" is set to have people refrain from dialog on account information from the next day after the end of the fiscal year until the financial results announcement is completed.
• Understanding shareholders composition
  ・As a general rule, we will understand the composition of the shareholders on the shareholders register twice a year, and will conduct a survey of shareholders who actually hold the Company's shares at the end of the fiscal year in order to plan IR activities.

Investor Relations Activities

The following investor relations activities were conducted in FY2022.