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Communication Activities

The AGC Group proactively discloses corporate information in a timely and appropriate manner so as to ensure sufficient communication with its stakeholders. Through such continuing efforts, we aim to incorporate the opinions of our stakeholders into our CSR activities and gain their understanding and support for our group-wide activities.

Public Relations

Based on its Group Communication Guidelines designed to ensure the accurate communication of the Group's information to the world at large, the AGC Group has established a cooperative framework among public relations sections of Asahi Glass and Group companies in Asia including Japan, Europe, and North America, and group-wide information communication rules within and outside the Group. With prompt and appropriate information disclosure and sharing, we are striving to maximize our corporate value and further promote the integrated management of the Group.
The Group ensures the timely disclosure of corporate information by appointing a person in charge at each of the In-house Companies/SBU and major Group companies to convey information to the Corporate Communications & Investor Relations Office. On that basis, the Timely Information Disclosure Committee holds regular meetings and deliberates and decides on the necessity of disclosure of matters to be resolved at the Management Committee and Board of Directors meetings based on the disclosure rules of the stock exchanges.
Asahi Glass also discloses negative information such as soil and groundwater contamination on its website and via media releases in an appropriate manner. Through careful investigation, we promptly disclose the facts with guidance from the government and experts.

Investor Relations

The AGC Group provides its shareholders and investors with a range of opportunities to enter a dialogue with the Group, wishing to help them deepen their understanding of its management strategies and business performance and incorporate their opinions into the management of the Group.
At the general meetings of shareholders, we use figures and images in reporting our business results to participants. Moreover, we are striving to provide our shareholders with more convenient services and appropriately disclose the resolutions made at the meetings. Specifically, we send the notices of convocation as early as possible and post them also online both in Japanese and English, enable shareholders to exercise their voting rights via the Internet and post notices of resolutions and the results of exercise of voting rights online both in Japanese and English.
The AGC Group holds briefing sessions on its management strategies and quarterly and yearly financial results. We also provide audio streaming of these briefing sessions both in Japanese and English. In addition, we hold small meetings for analysts and institutional investors and factory tours as part of IR activities. In fiscal 2010, we held about 250 interviews with analysts and institutional investors.
To help more investors including individual shareholders deepen their understanding of the AGC Group, we post materials that introduce the Group, on the website. Also in fiscal 2010, we began holding briefing session for individual investors. Moreover, we publish AGC Review twice a year, which gives an easy-to-understand explanation of our global business activities and products in addition to information about our management strategies and business performance.


Briefing session

Investor Relations

Communication tools

In addition to the communication tools introduced on the first page of this report, we publish the following documents:

Number of Shares Held by Type of Investors (as of December 31, 2010)

* The sums do not total 100% because calculations are made excluding the holders of shares less than one unit.

Returns to Shareholders

Based on a policy of maintaining stable dividends, AGC Group is doing its utmost to return profits to shareholders by aiming for a dividend payout ratio (consolidated) of approximately 30%, while giving comprehensive consideration to consolidated business results and future investment plans, among others. AGC Group will allocate retained earnings to R&D, capital investment, and loans and investments as well as merger and acquisition activities to improve its corporate value while strengthening its financial position.

Dividends per Share

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