Dialogue with Shareholders and Investors

Basic Policy

Based on Our Group Philosophy's policy of "With Our Relationship with Society in Mind, Take Action and Earn Society's Trust," Daikin Industries, Ltd. believes in its responsibility to shareholders and investors to abide by laws, conduct corporate activities with the utmost in ethics, and earnestly disclose information to ensure transparency of management.

For company-related information such as decisions and occurrences, in line with the rules of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, we disclose timely information on the stock exchange's TDnet online system, and promptly on the Daikin website. Even for information that we are not legally obligated to promptly disclose, we do everything possible to release information that we believe will help the investment decisions of shareholders and investors.

Disclosing Information in a Fair and Timely Manner

Maximizing Information Disclosure through Briefings and Our Website

Daikin Industries, Ltd. conducts a range of IR activities aimed at improving understanding in areas like our company's current state and management philosophy for shareholders and investors.

For analysts and institutional investors, we hold financial performance briefings every financial quarter. In addition, we speak with investors over 400 times a year through business briefings, plant tours, sustainability briefings, and face-to-face meetings. For individual investors, we also hold company briefings several times a year.

Furthermore, in order to ensure fair disclosure of information to everyone, regardless of whether they are institutional or private investors in Japan or other countries, we strive to disclose IR information in English and actively disseminate information on our corporate website.

More than 120 analysts and investors took part in the sustainability briefings held virtually in fiscal 2021. This briefing highlighted the "Challenge to Achieve Carbon Neutrality," which was one of the growth strategy themes identified in the Fusion 25 Strategic Management Plan. We presented the Group’s plan to contribute to a sustainable society and achieve growth through harnessing the strength in our environmental and energy-saving technologies and held discussions.

In addition, we also actively engaged in individual dialogue sessions with institutional investments on themes pertinent to sustainability and ESG. In fiscal 2021, we held dialogue on the progress of Environmental Vision 2050, which aims to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 based on the TCFD Framework.

We will continue to stress dialogue with all shareholders and investors and do everything we can to disclose information through a range of media.

Respect for Exercising Voting Rights

Helping More Shareholders Exercise Voting Rights

To ensure that shareholders have more time to consider new proposals before voting at the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders, we send announcements of the meeting at least a week earlier than is legally required. We also promptly post the information on the Daikin website and on the website of the Tokyo Stock Exchange at least a week before we send it.

To remedy the discrepancy in information available in Japan and other countries, we translate announcements of shareholder meetings into English and send these to overseas institutional investors, we have an English version of our website, and we post the results of shareholder voting on our website.
We strive to get as many shareholders as possible to exercise their voting rights by allowing voting over the Internet: those who cannot attend meetings in person can still exercise their voting rights by personal computer or smartphone. We have also adopted a platform for exercising voting rights, which makes it even easier for institutional investors to vote.

As a result of these efforts, the percentage of voting rights exercised reached 91.42% in the 119th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders held in June 2022. The number of votes cast over the Internet also increased to 1,968,501 (3,593 shareholders).

Voting Rights Exercised

Breakdown of Shareholders (March 31, 2022)