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Dialogue with Stakeholders

Updated October 2023

Dialogue with Stakeholders

Examples of Dialogue with Stakeholders

  Purpose/Theme Means

Customers

  • Companies must provide safe and high-quality products and appropriate information that satisfy customers.
  • Through sincere communication with customers, we build trust.
  • Meetings with customers in person and online
  • Provision of technical services
  • Conducting customer satisfaction surveys

Denka
Group Employees

  • The Denka Group reflects the voices of its employees and is working to create workplaces where all people in the Denka Group can work in good health.
  • Plant visits and dialogue by the President
  • Conducting an Employee Awareness Survey
  • Utilization of internal portal site
  • Labor-Management Council

Suppliers

  • Through the promotion of open innovation and the establishment of good relationships with our business partners, we aim to achieve mutual prosperity throughout the supply chain.
  • Meetings with suppliers in person and online
  • Announcement of Partnership Building Declaration

Local Community

  • As a good corporate citizen, the Company actively participates in the formation of better local communities and contributes to their development.
  • Companies must maintain sound relationships with politics and government and foster trust with society.
  • Comprehensive disaster prevention drill
  • Plant tours, briefing sessions
  • Community exchange and dialogue
  • Participation in events
  • Educational support
  • Corporate citizenship activities

Shareholders and investors

  • Companies actively, effectively, and fairly disclose financial and non-financial information and ensure its reliability through constructive dialogue.
  • The Group will strengthen its governance system and thereby enhance corporate value as a whole.
  • Meeting data with institutional investors and securities company analysts (excluding shareholder meetings and financial results briefings)

  • Main Themes of Dialogue, Shareholder Interests, and Disclosure Improvement Items
    • Details and outlook of each segment and major products
    • Sales by Application of Main Products
    • Cash allocation
      (Shareholder returns, strategic investment, HR investment, R&D, financial leverage, etc.)
    • Business Opportunities and Risks
    • Efforts to achieve each financial/non-financial KPI in the Management Plan “Mission 2030”
      (Business plans and portfolio reform promotion methods for areas of focus toward achieving targets of ROE, ROIC, and operating income)
  • Holding of shareholders' meeting (once a year)

    The Company has enhanced the content of the convocation notices and other materials for the General Meeting of Shareholders and expanded the information disclosed. Furthermore, the Company has adopted live streaming for shareholders who are unable to attend the meeting in person as well as methods for exercising voting rights via the Internet using computers.

  • Holding of financial results briefing (4 times a year: 80-100 participants each)

    The President and executives explain financial results and growth strategies to institutional investors and securities analysts on a quarterly basis (financial results briefings for the press are also held twice a year).

  • Meetings with institutional investors and securities company analysts (Total: 361)
    • Individual meetings and small meetings (175 in Japan, 106 overseas)

      The Corporate Communications Department conducts two-way dialogue on details such as financial results and management plans in individual meetings or small meetings with institutional investors and securities company analysts.

    • SR Meeting (twice a year: 29 participants in Japan)

      The General Affairs Department conducts dialogue with major domestic shareholders (institutional investors) regarding the Company's initiatives centered on governance and the voting rights exercise policies of institutional investors.

    • Holding of top meetings (once a year: 15 people in Japan)

      The President discusses with domestic institutional investors the thinking behind management strategies such as portfolio reform and business plans.

    • Conducted ESG seminar hosted by securities company (once a year: 20 people in Japan)

      The officer in charge of IR explains the uniqueness and growth potential of the management strategy on ESG themes.

    • Holding of overseas roadshows (3 times a year: 17 participants from overseas)

      The Executive Officer in charge of IR conducts dialogue with overseas institutional investors from North America, Europe, and Asia regarding our management plan, business model, research and development, shareholder returns, and ESG matters (including one conference hosted by a securities company per year).

  • Feedback of shareholders' opinions and thoughts to management (4 times a year + as needed)

    In addition to providing quarterly feedback to management, including the President, and relevant divisions on shareholder opinions ascertained through dialogue, feedback is also provided as needed when events where many shareholder opinions are gathered are held. This feedback is utilized as a reference for disclosure materials and the formulation and promotion of management strategies going forward.

DFF Inc., Denka Company Limited CSR and Public Relations Office, Denka Company Limited IR Office, Seiwa Business Link
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