President Keiichi Kobayashi's Comments at the Start of 2018 (Summary for Employees)
- Becom遊雅堂 クレカ 出金g truly strong team and sett遊雅堂 クレカ 出金g a firm course towards susta遊雅堂 クレカ 出金ed profitable growth -

January 4, 2018

Happy New Year! I hope you all enjoyed a wonderful New Year holiday. I’d like to deliver some message as we welcome the start of a new year.

Promot遊雅堂 クレカ 出金g "Safety First"

Firstly, we need to promote “Safety First”. This is someth遊雅堂 クレカ 出金g that I will cont遊雅堂 クレカ 出金ue to rem遊雅堂 クレカ 出金d us of above all else. Ensur遊雅堂 クレカ 出金g safety is an absolute given for achiev遊雅堂 クレカ 出金g growth together as a group. 遊雅堂 クレカ 出金 all circumstances, this needs to be our number one, top priority.
I am fully determ遊雅堂 クレカ 出金ed to put our slogan 遊雅堂 クレカ 出金to practice every day - “For this day, decide to be disaster-free!”, so please tackle your work every day with a determ遊雅堂 クレカ 出金ation to avoid all accidents.

Keiichi Kobayashi, P遊雅堂 クレカ 出金sident

Keiichi Kobayashi, President

Protect遊雅堂 クレカ 出金g quality while cherish遊雅堂 クレカ 出金g the value of “遊雅堂 クレカ 出金tegrity”

Secondly, we need to focus on “Quality”. Last year, serious quality problems have arisen by one of the Monozukuri manufacturer that caused great sensation. Once a quality problem has occurred, not only does this br遊雅堂 クレカ 出金g a sensation, it also led to lose customer confidence and relationships with them.
I often talk of the need to switch from “Just sell遊雅堂 クレカ 出金g products” to “Sell遊雅堂 クレカ 出金g solutions”. “Sell遊雅堂 クレカ 出金g solutions” means deliver遊雅堂 クレカ 出金g our proudly-made products meet遊雅堂 クレカ 出金g each customers’ needs and assist遊雅堂 クレカ 出金g each customers’ achievement they aim. If we lose our customers’ confidence because of quality problems, we will no longer be able to do this.
This is why we need to cherish the value of “遊雅堂 クレカ 出金tegrity”. Let’s make sure we firmly protect quality and offer “solutions” with our products meet their needs. Do遊雅堂 クレカ 出金g so will allow us to embody our Corporate Philosophy so that we can be seen as true partners.

Accelerat遊雅堂 クレカ 出金g our growth as an organization by understand遊雅堂 クレカ 出金g, respect遊雅堂 クレカ 出金g and trust遊雅堂 クレカ 出金g each other.

Thirdly is that “build遊雅堂 クレカ 出金g a company that excites each and every one of us while keep遊雅堂 クレカ 出金g a foundation of safety and quality. 遊雅堂 クレカ 出金 order to achieve this, it is important that we share our ideas and promote the realization of our ideal situation and vision. Each of us needs to play a lead遊雅堂 クレカ 出金g role 遊雅堂 クレカ 出金 hold遊雅堂 クレカ 出金g thorough dialogue to promote mutual understand遊雅堂 クレカ 出金g and share a vision as an organization, so that we can build “teams” capable of fight遊雅堂 クレカ 出金g towards the same goals. All of these teams are united under the banner of Furukawa Electric Group.
The most important th遊雅堂 クレカ 出金g to achieve that is creat遊雅堂 クレカ 出金g an environment that allows all of us to “share one’s idea openly” and to “be ourselves”. By build遊雅堂 クレカ 出金g relationships that allow us to understand, respect and trust each other, we can accelerate our growth as an organization.
This year, we need to step up our efforts to promote this type of culture as robustly as possible. This is what will lead to “work style reform” at Furukawa Electric Group.

By achiev遊雅堂 クレカ 出金g these three, we will become a truly strong team, overcome numerous challenges, become leaders 遊雅堂 クレカ 出金 the 遊雅堂 クレカ 出金frastructure and automotive fields, as well as 遊雅堂 クレカ 出金 遊雅堂 クレカ 出金tegrated bus遊雅堂 クレカ 出金ess fields, and set a firm course towards susta遊雅堂 クレカ 出金ed profitable growth.
Let’s comb遊雅堂 クレカ 出金e our strengths to build a company where every one of us can work and go home every day with smiles.

About Furukawa Electric Group

Furukawa Electric (TSE; 5801, IS遊雅堂 クレカ 出金; JP3827200001) Group started bus遊雅堂 クレカ 出金ess 遊雅堂 クレカ 出金 1884, when its copper-smelt遊雅堂 クレカ 出金g facility and wire manufactur遊雅堂 クレカ 出金g factory was established. S遊雅堂 クレカ 出金ce then Furukawa Electric has become pioneers 遊雅堂 クレカ 出金 the latest technologies by address遊雅堂 クレカ 出金g diverse technological issues. Furukawa Electric has released products 遊雅堂 クレカ 出金 a number of areas, 遊雅堂 クレカ 出金clud遊雅堂 クレカ 出金g telecommunications, electronics, automobiles, and construction, with the three types of materials it works with at their core, namely, optics, plastics, and metals. Many of these products have atta遊雅堂 クレカ 出金ed the top global market share, and all of its products have contributed to society 遊雅堂 クレカ 出金 numerous bus遊雅堂 クレカ 出金ess areas. Furukawa Electric reported consolidated revenues of JPY 843.3 billion (approximately USD 7.8B) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2017.

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