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Placing sustainability at the heart of management to facilitate the continual growth of corporate value
We have consistently believed that environmental initiatives are both responsibilities that manufacturers must naturally meet and also business opportunities. The need for environmental products and technologies continues to increase. In our asv2050/2030 Sustainability Vision, we set the target of increasing our sustainability-enhancing product sales ratio to 80% by FY2030 and to 100% by FY2050. The progress we achieved in FY2025 includes the commercialization of sustainable packages that feature enhanced recyclability in collaboration with other company.
It is also necessary to improve governance to continuously increase corporate value. In FY2025, a female outside director who has experience in corporate management joined us, further improving our knowledge in the areas of management, financial affairs and accounting. Regarding the composition of the Board of Directors, we will improve our skills matrix from the perspectives of diversity and specializations to improve the management team’s ability to fulfill its supervisory duties.
The Advisory Committee on Appointment and Remuneration continues to deliberate our succession plans for selecting future management executives. We will create candidate shortlists and provide the candidates with opportunities to deliver presentations during the committee’s meeting to assess their aptitude from multiple perspectives.

Continuing to work for the future based on 130 years of history
The artience Group celebrated the 130th anniversary of its foundation in 2026. While the Group’s long history is a testament to our sustainability, we are currently working to break out of the mold we have created for ourselves as a long-established company. In FY2024, we changed the name of our company, and we also changed our philosophy system. We created our Brand Promise, “Creating value that resonates with the senses, build a future where all people can live enriched lives.” It has been two full years since we did that. We are achieving steady progress in our transformation and steady results in our processes to establish a culture that encourages us to take on challenges and transform our business portfolio.
However, looking at our results, these efforts are still incomplete. We must achieve the numerical targets set in the medium-term management plan and earn a positive evaluation from the market in the form of a PBR of more than 1. Not just in our founding business of printing inks, but also in new areas, we will develop mainstay products that will earn global recognition. I think that we cannot say that we have changed until we achieve this.
Building on our 130 years of history, we will continue to take on new challenges for the future as a company that combines art, which resonates with people’s sensibilities and hearts, and science, which includes technical capabilities and functionality, to continuously create value that resonates with the senses.

President and Representative Director, Group CEO