By maintaining and enhancing management efficiency, transparency and soundness, we strive to continuously create corporate value continuously and make ourselves even more attractive to our shareholders.
Our most important challenge is to strive to strengthen our R&D activities from a long-term perspective, increase our competitiveness by developing new businesses, and maintain long-term growth of our business performance.
We are also working hard to enhance corporate governance with the aim of developing a trusted and attractive corporate culture. Management transparency and soundness are being boosted, and management monitoring and oversight functions are being strengthened through the appointment of independent outside directors and auditors.
The JSR Group strives to promote investor relations (IR) efforts with due consideration for our shareholders and investors, and to disseminate information regarding our business situation and our corporate policies promptly and accurately.
Panel exhibition at a shareholders' meeting
JSR has implemented a variety of measures to facilitate the exercising of shareholders' voting rights. These include the holding of the general shareholders’ annual meeting at an earlier date to avoid the typical peak period of shareholders’ meetings, an earlier notification for the meeting, the adoption of a voting system via the Internet, participation to the electronic platforms for exercising voting rights by the institutional investors, and the listing of invitations to shareholders' meetings on our website in both Japanese and English.
We aim to make documents attached to invitations to our shareholders' meetings easy to understand. To this end, we provide not only legally required contents, but also other useful information, such as information regarding our products and the overview of our mid-term business plan. Additionally, we make effective use of graphs, photographs, and color printing.
Additionally, we make sure that ordinary general meetings of shareholders are accessible and easy to understand for many shareholders by adopting various measures such as the exhibition of panels to explain about JSR, video and audio information relating to our business conditions, and the President’s briefing on the mid-term business plan.
IR meeting
In addition to conducting briefings on our business results after each quarter, we also organize seminars for investment institutions and analysts as well as various other events to achieve extensive bi-directional communication with shareholders and investors.
Our website providing information regarding our stock price, news, and other topics in a timely manner
In order to provide the latest information regarding our financial and business performances, the JSR Group’s website contains the section of "Investor Relations." The section includes the latest IR information, news release, and the latest stock price information, which are indicated in a way easy to see. The section also presents various types of IR information, including documents regarding our business results, annual reports, IR news, information related to our stocks, documents regarding our shareholders' meetings, and our company information for individual investors. We strive to provide necessary information in a way easy to understand and in a timely manner.
Annual Report 2014
We publish an annual report (available only in English) every year regarding the relevant fiscal year's financial results and management and business situations.
JSR Throughout Society Part 7
We send the "JSR Throughout Society" pamphlet to our shareholders, which aims to help our shareholders to easily understand that our Group's products are used extensively for a wide range of materials and parts needed in society. The pamphlet explains how our products are utilized in leading-edge fields such as fuel-efficient tires, smart phones, life sciences, and capacitors.
*Shares owned by individual Japanese investors, etc.
include treasury shares (3.30%).
The number of JSR shareholders was 17,336 as of March 31, 2015; the type of shareholders’ composition is as follows: