Stakeholder engagement is essential to ensure the long-term growth and the sustainability of a company. Through two-way communication with stakeholders, we improve the quality of our products and services, and thus ensure the value and credibility of the Company. We also aim to create innovation and new business opportunities through cooperation with stakeholders.

Shareholders
This is an important process to strengthen communication with shareholders and promote mutual understanding.

• General Meeting of Shareholders (once a year)
• Business reports (twice yearly)

Institutional investors and analysts
We support investment decision-making by building trusting relationships and forming strategic partnerships through information sharing.

• Business results briefings (twice yearly)
• IR coverage (as needed)
• Issuance of Integrated Report (once a year)

Media

Through open communication and cooperation, we provide accurate information, promote mutual understanding, and create a credible media environment.

• Cooperation for interviews (as needed)
• Press releases (as needed)

Government agencies / local municipalities
Through cooperation and dialogue, we contribute to policymaking and the resolution of social issues, thereby contributing to the public interest and sustainable development.

• Liaison meetings (as needed)
• Conference meetings (as needed)

Academia
Through research collaboration, knowledge sharing, and student support, we promote academic achievements and practical applications, and strengthen collaboration with the academic community.

• Public bidding invitation for industry-academia research (as needed)
• Commissioned and joint research (as needed)

Prospective employees
We provide an attractive brand image and deepen mutual understanding through open communication to ensure a successful recruitment process.

• Job matching (annual)
• Company information sessions (annual)

Suppliers
We build effective supply chains by building trusting relationships and forming cooperative partnerships to improve quality, efficiency, and sustainability.

• CSR procurement questionnaire (annual)

Business partners
Through proactive communication and value provision, we aim to strengthen relationships with customers, improve customer satisfaction, and create business opportunities.

• Exchanges of opinions with agents (as needed)
• New product briefings (as needed)
• Product study sessions (as needed)

Industry associations

We promote industry-wide development and strengthened competitiveness through information sharing, policy recommendations, and collaboration toward common industry goals.

• Various committees (as needed)
• Various task forces (as needed)

Local communities
We promote shared prosperity and sustainable development and contribute to local communities by understanding local needs and cooperating together to find solutions.

• Dialogue meetings and briefings (annual)
• Plant tours (as needed)

NPOs/NGOs
Through partnerships and cooperation, we promote contributions to social issues and the creation of shared value to support regional and social development.

• Event sponsorships (as needed)

Employees
We provide opportunities for growth, enhance employee motivation and job satisfaction, and improve productivity and organizational performance.

• Labor-Management Conference (as needed)
• Self-report system (once a year)
• Internal recruiting system (as needed)
• Publication of in-house newsletter (four times a year)
• Support for in-house health promotion (as needed)

In today’s age of ceaseless globalization and advancement in information technology, disclosure of corporate information has become indispensable in order for an entity to fulfill its responsibility to society. Disclosure of corporate information is also becoming increasingly important for the NOF Group as we strive to win the trust of society as an “open corporation” both inside and outside the Group. The NOF Group engages in timely disclosure of its corporate information including management information and business activities to its shareholders and the capital markets in accordance with relevant laws and regulations, such as the Companies Act and Financial Instruments and Exchange Act.

NOF sends its Notice of Annual General Meeting of Shareholders around 21 days in advance of the meeting. In addition, we strive to provide information promptly by disclosing both Japanese and English versions as digital information around 28 days in advance of the date of the meeting.

The Environmental Reports (Report on Responsible Care Activities), which were published since fiscal 1995, have been revised as the CSR Report since fiscal 2015. The Report reports on CSR activities of the NOF Group. Between fiscal 2020 and 2023, we issued the ESG Data Book to complement our Integrated Report and other information. In fiscal 2023, the ESG Data Book was revised as the Sustainability Report, and we are working to enhance the information in the Report.

The NOF Group conducts IR activities geared toward shareholders and investors based on a focus on the reliability and fairness of its investment information. We make efforts to provide timely, appropriate, and fair disclosures by holding business results briefings for institutional investors twice yearly and posting briefing materials on our website for general investors. Additionally, in fiscal 2024, the NOF Group held 277 meetings for institutional investors and analysts.

The NOF Group proactively disseminates information on new products and technologies. In fiscal 2024, in addition to 48 news releases, we actively responded to mass media and other coverage, which resulted in 78 mentions of NOF Group businesses in the press. We also present NOF Group products at various exhibitions and trade shows.

Fair disclosure rules legally mandating fair disclosure of information by listed companies were introduced following the enforcement of the Amended Financial Instruments and Exchange Act on April 1, 2018. NOF discloses information in a timely and appropriate manner in accordance with various laws and regulations, including the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act and the Rules on Timely Disclosure set by the Tokyo Stock Exchange. In addition, among information that does not fall under the scope of the Rules on Timely Disclosure, we conduct fair and impartial disclosure of information that we consider to have a significant impact on the investment decisions of shareholders and investors, and we have made the “Disclosure Policy” available on our website.

NOF aims to provide a website that is easy for anyone to use, with consideration aimed at being user-friendly for a variety of customers, including elderly people and people with disabilities. We will continue our efforts to ensure and improve accessibility in order to provide a website compliant with JIS X 8341-3:2016 level AA that our customers can use with peace of mind.

We launched “Naruhodo  NOF!” on the Company website to introduce the businesses of the NOF Group. We take care to use easily understood, user-friendly terms in an effort to further the understanding of the general public in respect of the Group’s businesses.