We actively engage in constructive dialogue with shareholders and investors in Japan and overseas to promote understanding of our strategies and other initiatives and to gain an appropriate evaluation from the capital market. Senior management, including the CEO, participates in financial results briefings, briefings on individual businesses, meetings with major shareholders, overseas IR activities, and other opportunities, striving to provide detailed explanations and engage in two-way dialogue regarding our medium- to long-term management policies, recent business conditions, sustainability initiatives, and other matters. Through these activities, we seek to deepen understanding of the Company while appropriately reflecting the opinions and suggestions received from shareholders and investors in management to sustainably enhance corporate value.

In FY2025, the final year of the Teijin Group Medium-Term Management Plan 2024-2025, we engaged in dialogue with shareholders and investors, focusing primarily on progress in improving profitability and transforming the business portfolio, as well as initiatives to strengthen the global management system. The main dialogue themes and matters of interest to shareholders in FY2025 are shown in the table below.

We report the opinions gathered through dialogues with shareholders and investors to the Board of Directors and the Management Committee and use them to deepen discussions on the formulation of management strategies, including the medium-term management plan.
In FY2025, we deepened discussions on the formulation of the medium-term management plan by reporting concerns and opinions regarding business performance, growth strategy, and capital allocation to the Board of Directors. We will continue to provide feedback regarding opinions and suggestions from shareholders and investors to all levels of the company. By sharing external evaluations of our management strategy, business plans, and corporate value, we will clarify our own issues and link this to the consideration and improvement of our management strategies and measures.

Content of Report (Frequency)

• Clarification of the growth strategy and business model in the new medium-term management plan, optimization of the business portfolio and reorganization of business segments, and disclosure of ROIC targets
• Clarification and review of the basic capital allocation policy (including consideration of introducing DOE)