The Sanyo Group, in order to ensure sustainable progress with the supports of stockholders and investors, engages in investor relations activities with the stress on the disclosure of information and communications.
Sanyo discloses important information about our social responsibilities including financial and environmental aspects to stockholders, investors and other stakeholders with various backgrounds in an appropriate manner.
Aware of the importance of transparent, unbiased and continuous disclosure of information, we, freely and willingly, provide our stockholders and investors with information required under the timely disclosure rules of the stock exchanges in Japan, and also with presentation materials used in our IR meetings and others on our website.
By so doing, we assist stockholders and investors in understanding and evaluating our performance and making investment decisions, and seek to ensure smooth and equable trading in securities (Sanyo shares and bonds).
In conducting IR activities, we endeavor to continue to reflect the opinions of our stockholders and investors in our corporate activities not only by disclosing information but also by promoting direct dialogs with them in order to increase our corporate value.
*1 IR (Investor Relations) : Publicity for stockholders and investors.
| Type | Total number of shares that can be issued |
Total number of shares issued | Number of stockholders |
|---|---|---|---|
| Common shares | 7,060,300,000 | 1,872,338,099 | 263,615 |
| Preferred shares A | 182,600,000 | 182,542,200 | 3 |
| Preferred shares B | 246,100,000 | 246,029,300 | 3 |
*2 As of March 31, 2009
Sanyo seeks to meet the needs of stockholders and investors in different situations and with different requirements by its IR activities. Through these IR activities, the opinions we receive from stockholders and investors are immediately communicated from the departments responsible for IR to top management so that they can be reflected in future business and IR activities.
We provide individual investors with information on a wide range of issues through our reports for stockholders ("SANYO NOW") and annual
reports and other publications as well as on our corporate website. To provide all the investors with the necessary information in an easy-to-understand manner, such media present the Sanyo Group's business performance and financial statements using many photographs and diagrams.
At our General Meeting of Stockholders, attended by approximately 2,000 stockholders, our management personnel commit themselves to presenting the Group's business performance in an easy-to-understand manner, and responding to questions and comments from stockholders respectfully.
For institutional investors and analysts, the company holds explanatory meetings for our financial statements quarterly and IR meetings to explain corporate policy and business strategy by the management and the persons in charge of IR. We are also willing to accept individual requests for interviews by institutional investors and analysts whenever possible and perform the constructive dialog with. As a result, the number of interviews we received during FY2008 totaled 360.
On our website we offer a wide variety of "Investor Relations" information, including our financial statements, fact books, annual report, information subject to the timely disclosure rules, and handouts distributed at financial results briefings, so that the investors will be able to understand the wide range of activities conducted by the Sanyo Group.
We are making efforts toward improvement of information retrieval so that our website may become more user-friendly.
