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Dialogue with Stakeholders

Updated in October 2023

Dialogue with Stakeholders

Examples of dialogue with stakeholders
  Objective/Themes Means

Customers

  • Providing safe, high-quality products that satisfy our customers and appropriate information.
  • Forging relationships built on trust through sincere communication with our customers
  • Face-to-face and online dialogue with customers
  • Providing technical services
  • Conducting customer satisfaction surveys

Denka Group
Employees

  • Reflecting the opinions of employees to promote the creation of a healthy and comfortable workplace for all members of the Denka Group.
  • Visits by and dialogue with the President
  • Employee awareness surveys
  • Use of internal portal sites
  • Labor-management council

Business Partners

  • Promoting open innovation and building good relationships with our business partners to ensure co-existence and shared prosperity across the entire supply chain.
  • Face-to-face and online meetings with suppliers
  • Announcement of our Partnership Building Declaration

Local Communities

  • Actively participating in the formation of more habitable local communities and contributing to their development as a good corporate citizen.
  • Maintaining sound political and administrative relations and fostering a relationship of trust with society.
  • Comprehensive disaster prevention drills
  • Educational support
  • Participation in local events
  • Interaction with local residents and dialogue
  • Facility tours and resident briefings
  • Social contribution activities

Shareholders and Investors

  • Actively, effectively and fairly disclosing financial and non-financial information and ensuring its reliability through constructive dialogue.
  • Enhancing our group governance system to enhance the value of the entire company.
  • Meetings with institutional investors and securities company analysts (Excluding shareholders' meetings and Financial Results Presentation)

  • Main topics of dialogue and matters of interest to shareholders and matters for increased disclosure
    1. Details of each segment and major products and future outlook
    2. Share of major products by sales application
    3. Cash allocation
      (Shareholder returns, strategic investment, human capital investment, R&D, financial leverage, etc.)
    4. Opportunities and risks
    5. Initiatives to achieve financial and non-financial KPIs in our "Mission 2030" management plan
      (Business plans in areas of focus for target ROE, ROIC, and operating income, and measures to promote portfolio transformation, etc.)
  • Holding of the General Meeting of Shareholders (once per year)

    Improve the content of convocation notices and other materials for shareholders' meetings to increase the level of disclosure. Adoption of live-streaming for shareholders who are unable to attend the venue on the day, and the exercise of voting rights via the Internet using personal computers, etc.

  • Holding of Financial Results Presentation (4 times a year: 80 - 100 people)

    The President and senior management provide quarterly briefings on financial results and growth strategies to institutional investors and securities company analysts. (Briefings are also held for the media 2 times a year.)

  • Meetings with institutional investors and securities company analysts (361 people)
    1. Individual meetings/small meetings (175 in Japan and 106 overseas)

      The Corporate Communications Department conducts interactive dialogue with institutional investors and securities company analysts at individual meetings or small meetings to discuss financial results, management plans and other details.

    2. SR meetings (2 times a year: 29 people in Japan)

      The General Affairs Department conducts dialogue with major domestic shareholders (institutional investors) to discuss our initiatives centered on governance and the voting policies of institutional investors.

    3. Top meetings (once a year: 15 people in Japan)

      The President discusses changes to our business portfolio, business plans, and other management strategies with domestic institutional investors.

    4. ESG seminars organized by securities companies (once a year: 20 people in Japan)

      Our Officer in charge of Investor Relations explains the unique nature and growth potential of our management strategies for ESG-based themes.

    5. Overseas road shows (3 times a year: 17 people overseas)

      Our Officer in charge of Investor Relations holds dialogue with overseas institutional investors in the Americas, Europe and Asia on management plans, business models, R&D, shareholder returns and ESG initiatives (including annual conferences sponsored by securities companies)

  • Feedback of shareholder opinions and views to management (4 times a year + every time)

    In addition to providing quarterly feedback on the opinions of shareholders obtained through dialogue to the President and other management and related departments, feedback is also provided whenever there is an event that attracts a large number of shareholders' opinions. This is used as a reference for future disclosure materials and management strategy formulation and promotion measures.

DFF Inc., デンカ株式会社, デンカ株式会社 IR室, 星和ビジネスリンク
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