Communication with Shareholders and Investors

Basic Concept

Promoting information disclosure actively based on the Charter of Corporate Behavior.

Konica Minolta believes that maximizing its corporate value is part of meeting the expectations of its shareholders and investors.
In order to maintain close relations with these stakeholders, Konica Minolta is working to ensure that they have a good understanding of all the Group's activities. This is achieved through proactive investor relations (IR) efforts in accordance with the concept of fair and timely disclosure of corporate information, as stated in the Konica Minolta Group Charter of Corporate Behavior.

Active Deployment of Investor Relations Activities

Actively engaging in IR activities for institutional and individual investors

Every quarter, Konica Minolta holds financial results briefings for securities analysts and institutional investors. The Company has also designated IR Days and holds business briefings to help investors gain a better understanding of Konica Minolta’s business strategies and strengths. Individual interviews and meetings are also held after these briefings, as necessary, to provide follow-up information. The Company visits institutional investors, although these have been primarily held online during the COVD-19 pandemic. Konica Minolta also actively participates in investor conferences held by brokerages, both in Japan and overseas, in an ongoing effort to communicate directly with investors.
In recent years, ESG investment, which considers corporate approaches to the environment, society, and governance in addition to financial performance, has been rapidly growing. Konica Minolta proactively disseminates information in response to the interests of such investors.

Implementation Status of Various Briefings (FY2023)
Financial Results Briefing	Every quarter
Investor Conference	nine meetings
Private Investor Briefings	Two meeting with 472 participants
Small meetings (President and CEO)	Two meetings with a total of 36 participants
Small meetings (President and CEO)	Securities analysts
Business briefing session	One meeting with 29 participants
ESG briefing session	One meeting with 28 participants（securities analysts and investors)
Individual meetings	A total of 160 meetings (140 companies)

IR Event

IR Activities by Top Management

Konica Minolta's top management is actively involved in dialogues with analysts and large institutional investors both in and outside Japan, and the disclosing of information.

At the FY2023 financial results meeting and IR meeting of Medium-term Business Plan updates, in addition to an overview of our business, we carefully explained the progress of business selection and concentration, structural reforms, balance-sheet shrinking including working capital reduction, and cash flow improvemnt that our top management led and promoted to restore company-wide profitability. We also held a business briefing session to explain the businesses that will lead the Company in terms of profitability and growth rate for sustainable growth over the medium-to-long term. In addition, we have actively increased the number of online events held after the spread of COVID-19, and we now use both online and face-to-face methods to have more opportunities for individual dialogue with domestic and foreign institutional investors. Meanwhile, against the backdrop of increasing stock ownership by individual investors, we have held company briefing sessions for individual investors to explain our business conditions and management strategies, which have been viewed by many people. In addition, more and more investors are considering non-financial information such as ESG in their investment decisions year-by-year, and we believe that it will become increasingly important for management, including top management, to directly communicate with and inform to with these investors. Meetings with institutional investors specializing in ESG have been held by the executive officer in charge of it. In addition, governance meetings also have been held on an ongoing basis by the chairperson of the board of directors to actively engage in dialogue and communicate the management foundation, including intangible assets, for the sustainable growth of the Company. In particular, in FY2023, a briefing session on ESG was held to explain the Company's sustainability management, and a panel discussion was held by the outside directors.

Internally, in addition to reporting the voices of analysts and investors to executives at management meetings, the President & CEO shares evaluations from the capital market with all employees after each quarter's financial results announcement and promote interactive communication.

Going forward, Konica Minolta will continue to increase opportunities for management, including top management, to engage in direct investor dialogues worldwide, as well as the briefings. The aim is for investors to be able to better understand and support Konica Minolta's sustainable growth, which is vital to society.

Strengthening the Dissemination of Information

With the revamping the IR website in March 2018, the aim has been to continually provide information to shareholders and investors that is easy to understand. As a result, in ”the Gomez IR Website Ranking” , the IR website has won the overall first place, with the gold status for the eleventh consecutive year. Subsequently, “the Nikko IR All Japanese Listed Companies' Website Ranking” recognized it with AAA Website for the twelfth consecutive year. The IR website also has won the Exellence Award for the sixth consecutive year. Thus, the Konica Minolta IR website has continued to receive high praise from these major evaluation organizations.

In the Integrated Report 2023, Konica Minolta has enhanced disclosure and sharing of non-financial information, including intangible assets such as human resources and intellectual property, as well as disclosure based on the framework created by the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). The company's information sharing is promoted using a consistent story of value creation with reference to the Guidance for Collaborative Value Creation issued by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

Communication with Shareholders and Investors

Committed to fair and timely information disclosure and proactive dissemination of information

In order to ensure fair and timely disclosure of IR information, Konica Minolta has an investor relations section on the Group's website which is updated regularly with the latest information. Available in Japanese and English, the site provides financial results information, financial data, and other materials. After every quarterly results announcement, videos of briefings, briefing materials with comments, and the main Q&A content are released on the website.

Corporate Governance Report

The June 2015 adoption of the Corporate Governance Code has resulted in greater emphasis being placed on corporate governance initiatives. The company's views on corporate governance, which it has worked on actively since the early days of management integration, were compiled into a Corporate Governance Report and disclosed on the Japanese and English websites.

Measures to Vitalize the General Shareholder Meetings and Smooth Exercise of Voting Rights.

Early Notification of General Shareholder Meeting

The Company sends the convocation notices at least three weeks in advance of the scheduled date of the General Shareholder Meeting to shareholders in order to enable them to have sufficient time to deliberate on the proposed Agenda of Items. Simultaneously, the convocation notices and its English translation is posted on the Company's website.

Scheduling General Shareholder Meetings to Avoid the Peak Day

The meeting is scheduled to avoid the peak day so that as many shareholders as possible can attend.

Allowing Electronic Exercise of Voting Rights

Shareholders can exercise voting rights via the Internet by accessing the website for exercising voting rights designated by the Company through a personal computer, smartphone or cellular phone.
Japanese and overseas institutional investors can vote by using ICJ's electronic voting platform. However, pre-registration is required for the use of the platform.

Participation in Electronic Voting Platform

The Company posts convocation notices and its English translation on ICJ's electronic voting platform. Japanese and overseas institutional investors who have pre-registered for the use of the platform can directly access the contents of the convocation notices for deliberation, thus enhancing their convenience.

Providing Convocation Notice in English

As explained above, the Company posts English translations of convocation notices on the website. In addition, English translations of convocation notices are also placed on the electronic voting platform.