Shareholders and Investors
The NSG Group is working to strengthen communications with shareholders and investors, to ensure sustainable growth of business operations, and increase corporate value.
What Our Shareholders and Investors Mean to Us
NSG Group considers shareholders and investors to be vital stakeholders. This is reflected in the Group’s “Values and Principles” statement, which sets out the Group’s intention “to be the preferred long-term investment for our shareholders.” Through its IR Basic Policy of “ensuring open and fair business dealings,” and through proactive and timely disclosure of information, NSG Group is working to build mutually beneficial long-term relationships with shareholders and investors.
As of March 31, 2007, there were 66,588 shareholders in the Group, an increase of 12,246 investors compared with March 31, 2006. The composition of shareholders includes the following investor types: 33.5 per cent ownership by financial institutions and securities companies, 7.0 per cent by other corporate entities, 34.8 per cent by foreign investors, and 24.5 per cent by other individual investors. Notably, the shareholding by foreign investors jumped over 14.1 percentage points compared with March 31, 2006. This followed the acquisition of the UK-based Pilkington plc, in June 2006. Furthermore, as of September 30, 2007 the number of shareholders have been 57,826, the ratio of foreign investors has reached 40.8 per cent.
The Corporate Communications Department, which facilitates the NSG Group’s IR activities, regularly holds IR presentations for analysts and institutional investors, while taking steps to ensure that individual investors are kept up to date via the Group’s IR web site.
A Dynamic IR Program
The NSG Group’s mid-term and year-end financial results presentations in Japan provide important opportunities for direct communication with investors. The Group also holds individual IR presentations for over 200 firms every year, and visits overseas investors in various regions throughout North America, Europe and Asia. All of this adds up to a dynamic IR program with impact.
Following the Group’s acquisition of Pilkington in June 2006, NSG Group held special IR presentations to introduce investors to the enlarged Group’s structure. Subsequently, in October 2006, NSG Group hosted an IR tour for a group of financial analysts from leading Japanese firms of Pilkington Automotive’s largest automotive glass factories located in San Salvo, Italy. This factory visit was highly significant to the Group’s IR program. It helped to bring about a deeper understanding of the Group on the world stage as a leading global supplier in the automotive glass sector.
Japanese Analysts Visit San Salvo Automotive plant
Improving IR Communication Tools
The NSG Group works to enhance communications with investors through the use of quarterly performance reports, annual reports and business reports as its main IR tools. The Group also offers e-mail updates via its IR News Mail Service (available in Japanese and English), which provides investors with news releases and timely NSG Group IR information.
NSG Group IR in the Spotlight
The NSG Group IR Web site has recently earned two top awards in recognition of excellence among other listed Japanese companies. It was selected to receive an “Internet IR Best Company Award” in the 2006 Internet IR competition held by Daiwa Investor Relations Co., Ltd. In addition, the NSG Group Web site was ranked first in the glass and ceramic sector in the 2006 Web site rankings of listed companies organized by Nikko Investor Relations Co., Ltd.
Amid the attention being given to Socially Responsibility Investment (SRI), not only has NSG Group qualified for inclusion in Japan’s leading SRI indices, but its stock has been incorporated in the SRI funds of several other companies in Japan.
Received Daiwa IR’s “Internet IR Best Company Award”
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