Shareholders' Meeting and Investor Relations
The azbil Group aims to create value toward sustainable growth through interactive communication with its stakeholders.
Under the guidance of the officer in charge of corporate communication activities, the azbil Group has set up a system (Corporate Communication Task Force) to facilitate dialogue with stakeholders through collaboration among internal departments. With this system, we implement fair and highly transparent disclosure of information in accordance with laws and regulations. In addition to financial information, we also proactively disseminate non-financial information, including the management plan and ESG initiatives, as well as product and service information. We consider it important to engage with our various stakeholders and communicate constructively with them. Their opinions can serve as valuable input for management and business operations, and by working collaboratively toward solving issues, we aim to create new value that will lead to sustainable growth.
Early Disclosure of the Notice of General Meeting of Shareholders and Its English Translation; and Live/Video Streaming of the Meeting
The notice of an upcoming General Meeting of Shareholders is posted on this website and on the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s website approximately one month before the date of the Meeting, and is mailed to shareholders three weeks prior to the Meeting. An English translation of the notice is also posted on both websites simultaneously with the Japanese version for the benefit of foreign shareholders. In addition, we participate in an electronic voting platform to enable shareholders to promptly access information related to the General Meeting and exercise their voting rights.
Furthermore, in addition to live streaming of parts of the proceedings on the day of the General Meeting of Shareholders, a recorded video of some of the proceedings is made available on our website at a later date.
Enhancing Dialogue with Shareholders and Investors
Dialogue with shareholders and investors is conducted by senior management, the officer in charge of corporate communications, or Investor Relations Office within the Group Management Headquarters, depending on the purpose of the engagement.
In practice, we conduct dialogue with through individual meetings, financial results briefings, various other briefings, and site vitis. We also enhance and utilize digital communication tools, including online briefings and digital content, to proactively communicate information to shareholders, institutional investors and individual investors, both in Japan and overseas, thereby promoting a deeper understanding of our business.
Topics discussed cover a broad range, including management strategy, business performance, sustainability and ESG initiatives, and voting guidelines. We actively engage with a wide variety of investors, from analysts and fund managers with diverse investment approaches to those responsible for ESG and voting decisions.
In FY2024, as part of the Board of Directors’ shareholder and investor engagements efforts, we held a small meeting between institutional investors and outside directors to discuss initiatives to strengthen corporate governance. Feedback obtained through these dialogues is shared with the President, the management team, outside directors, and through management meetings and Board meetings, and is appropriately reflected in the development of capital policy, corporate initiatives, and management decision-making.
Response to Disclosure Requests Regarding Sustainability
In line with our Group philosophy, we contribute to the global environment and address a wide range of social issues with the aim of realizing a sustainable society. We recognize that tackling sustainability issues is not only about managing risks, but also about seizing important business opportunities that enhance enterprise value. Guided by this recognition, we continue to make contributions that lead “in series” to a sustainable society.
Environmental, social, and business-structure changes—driven by such factors as climate change, SDGs, demographic shifts including declining birthrates and an aging population, and changes in the way people work—are giving rise to new and increasingly visible issues to be addressed. At the same time, automation technology—which can serve in a variety of ways, such as mechanization, labor-saving, and resource saving—are playing an even more important role in solving these issues, further increasing the value and expectations placed on automation.
Amid these changes, in August 2022, to achieve the Group’s sustainable growth, we incorporated the concept of double materiality (a concept that evaluates materiality from two aspects: financial evaluation of the impact of the environment and society on the company, and the impact of corporate activities on the environment and society) from the perspective of both opportunity and risk, based on our Group philosophy. We have identified ten material issues across five areas to be tackled over the long term; in FY2023, with advice from external experts, we reassessed these material issues and reaffirmed their validity.
Details of the azbil Group’s sustainability initiatives and achievements are disclosed on our website, in our annual Securities Report (in Japanese only), and in our Integrated Report and ESG Databook.
azbil report (Integrated Report)
Timely and Appropriate Disclosure
To ensure the rights of all shareholders and other investors are substantively and fairly protected, we take appropriate measures and establish compliance frameworks in accordance with laws and regulations. We also strive to ensure the integrity and transparency of information we disclose in order to fulfill our accountability as a public company. In addition to providing fair and highly transparent information in a timely and appropriate manner, we disclose our basic approach to information disclosure in our Disclosure Policy.
We also maintain an Investor Relations section on our website, where we regularly publish and update information such as shareholders’ meetings materials, financial results, and various IR documents. Furthermore, to ensure equal access to information for investors in Japan and overseas, we strive to disclose information promptly. In particular, the notice of General Meeting of Shareholders and financial results are disclosed simultaneously in both Japanese and English.
Inclusion in Indexes and external evaluations as of February 2026
- FTSE4Good Global Index
- JPX-Nikkei Index 400
- FTSE JPX Blossom Japan Index
- FTSE JPX Blossom Japan Sector Relative Index
- MSCI Japan ESG Select Readers Index
- MSCI Japan Empowering Women Index (WIN)
- S&P/JPX Carbon Efficient Index
- Morningstar Japan ex-REIT Gender Diversity Tilt Index
- CDP2024 Climate Change B list; Water Security A-; recognized as Supplier Engagement Leader
- Received the highest rating for the Eruboshi certification, which recognizes leading companies based on Japan’s Act on Promotion of Women’s Participation and Advancement in the Workplace
- Received Platinum Kurumin certification
- Certified as a Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organization in 2025 (White 500)
- Selected as an Environmentally Sustainable Enterprise at the 6th ESG Finance Award Japan
