Stakeholder Communication

EBARA's Approach
Stakeholder Engagement
Dialogue with Shareholders and Investors

EBARA's Approach

We recognize the importance of co-creating value with shareholders and employees, business partners, customers, creditors, local communities, and other diverse stakeholders in corporate management.

Stakeholder Engagement

Throughout the course of our operations, we prioritize creating value through collaboration with diverse stakeholders. We believe that strong partnerships with all stakeholders is essential for the sustainable growth of the EBARA Group. We will continue to work on creating new value by collaborating with and engaging in dialogue with all stakeholders.

Stakeholders	Engagement Examples	Outcomes
Customers	Daily communication through sales divisions Information provision via catalogs and websites Responses to questions and feedback through call centers	Supply of products that meet customer needs through provision of finely tuned solutions Contribution to the resolution of social issues through effective water resources usage and efficient energy use as customers utilize EBARA products
Shareholders and Investors	Information disclosure and communication through the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders and financial results briefings Timely disclosure of information through integrated reports, financial results briefings, websites, etc. Factory tours, IR Days, and ESG briefings	Increased trust in management Providing honest feedback to management to improve business activities
Business Partners	Daily communication with suppliers of product materials, supplies, and services through procurement divisions and requests for adherence to the CSR Procurement Guidelines Responses to questions and input form partners Support for training sessions for partner companies, etc.	Superior product quality and safety Competitive pricing Stable supply of products and services with reliable delivery periods Enhanced collaborative value creation partnerships
Local Communities	Coordination with community members and local companies Joint research with universities Open innovation with local group through EBARA Open Laboratory	Strong relationships with residents of areas surrounding business sites Technological development, development of better products and services Expanding the talent pool Improving partnerships for value co-creation
Employees	Opportunities for dialogue with the President and other executive management, educational lectures, and other programs Regular communication with labor unions	Effective utilization of technology and human resources from a global perspective by visualizing possessed technologies, core competencies, and technological and skilled human resources (Strategic Table of Technological Capabilities)

Dialogue with Shareholders and Investors

We create various opportunities for dialogue with our shareholders and investors to help them understand our efforts to increase corporate value. The valuable opinions, requests, and insights we gain through constructive dialogue with stakeholders are shared with management and throughout the Group, and are used to enhance information disclosure and improve management. We will continue to promote stakeholder engagement processes and further enhance corporate value.

Investor Relations

IR Basic Policy

Engagement Process with Shareholders and Investors

1. Dialogue with Shareholders and Investors

To enhance the reliability of our management, we actively pursue opportunities for dialogue with shareholders and investors.

Key Topics

Growth potential of the Precision Machinery segment
Growth drivers in the Building Service & Industrial segment
Impacts of U.S. tariff policy

Ongoing Topics of Discussion

Progress of E-Plan 2025 growth investments
Transition to top-line growth stage
Future cash allocation
Balance Sheet Strategy
Strategic positioning of each segment
ROIC levels by segment
Inter-segment synergies
Progress in new businesses such as Hydrogen

2. Feedback to the Management Meeting and the Board of Directors

The valuable opinions and concerns we receive from our shareholders and investors are provided as feedback to top executive management and the Board of Directors, and are utilized to improve our business activities.

Management Feedback

Reports to the Board of Directors (quarterly)
Results reports after financial results briefing (as needed)

Internal Feedback

IR information sharing meetings (every quarter) (sharing and discussion of feedback and questions gained from investor/shareholder meetings after financial results announcements)

3. Enhanced Disclosures

Management and IR collaborate and strive for prompt and honest disclosure.

Disclosure Examples

Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, financial results briefings
Timely disclosure of information through integrated reports, financial results briefings, corporate website, etc.
Factory tours, IR Days, and ESG briefings for shareholders and investors

IR/SR Activities in 2024

Scope	Activities	2022/12	2023/12	2024/12
Securities Analysts & Institutional Investors Conducting direct dialogue through various information sessions and individual meetings	Individual IR Meetings	322 times	321 times	447 times
	Individual IR Meetings	370 companies	426 companies	682 companies
	Conferences and meetings hosted by securities companies	44 times	36 times	34 times
	Financial Results Briefings	4 times	4 times	4 times
	Management Meetings	1 time	3 times	4 times
	IR Days	1 time	2 times	1 time
	ESG Briefings	1 time	1 time	1 time
	Tours	1 time	1 time	1 time
Individual Shareholders & Investors Direct explanations of results trends, business strategies, and other matters by Executive Officer in charge of IR and IR staff	Briefings for individual investors	5 times	2 times	6 times
	Tours/information sessions for individual shareholders	1 time	1 time	-