Together with Investors
Approach to IR activities
| Participating companies | Participating individuals | |
|---|---|---|
| Meetings with investors in Japan | 420 (27)* |
457 (28) |
| Overseas IR tours | 190 (20) |
244 (32) |
| Tours of facilities | ||
| 2 in Japan | 49 | 55 |
| 1 overseas | 4 | 4 |
| IR seminar for individuals | ||
| 13 in Japan | - | 1,929 |
Timely, fair and appropriate information disclosure and dialogue are essential to building friendly relationships with shareholders, investors, and other stakeholders, and doing this helps to increase corporate value. At NYK Line, the president and the entire management team are committed to proactive information disclosure. During Fiscal Year 2010 we took initiatives to enhance company briefings for individual investors and to give executives and employees greater feedback from IR activities.
Tours of facilities
In December 2010, we held an IR tour for institutional investors and analysts in Thailand. The country is home to the production facilities of large numbers of automakers and electrical equipment manufacturers, and we showed what the NYK Group was doing with tours of the Ro-Ro ship*1 terminal, logistics warehouse, and Yusen Logistics Co. Ltd. facilities. We also visited customers so that they could see NYK service in action.
*1 Ro-Ro ship
Roll-on Roll-off Ship
A ship similar to a ferry that has a ramp way and a vehicle deck so that vehicles can move on and off using their own power. This structure allows direct loading and unloading without the use of cranes.
Publication of IR information
Vol.9, Spring 2011
The "NYK Plus" pamphlet is published twice a year (spring and fall) specifically for personal shareholders and investors to provide them with insights into the breadth of NYK's ocean, land, and air business activities and its social contribution initiatives. We hope that this publication improves their familiarity with the company. We are also enhancing the content of our website so that up-to-date information is available. On the site you will find monthly figures for containership cargo volume and the bulk carrier and tanker market, as well as schedules for company briefings geared to individual investors.
Appreciate emphasis on stock markets
NYK Line is one of the highest-ranked companies for disclosure both by the Security Analysts Association of Japan and by institutional investors. I appreciate the efforts made to maintain a dialogue with stock markets and use that information in management, especially the small meetings with the president and the IR organization that is able to discuss business strategy with us on a day-to-day basis. The company is also active in providing tours of its domestic and overseas facilities. In 2009, I was able to tour a car carrier; and in 2010, viewed what the company is doing to enhance the safety of ship operations. The car carrier tour was held just after the global recession, when Japan's automobile exports were trending downwards. The safe ship operation tour was held at a time when safety standards were being beefed up with "major inspections,"※1 and it was a valuable opportunity to hear first-hand what front-line workers were thinking.
Yuichi Tezuka
Senior Research Analyst
Equity Investment Department
Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co. Ltd.
*1 Major inspection
Ship inspections by "major oil companies," the giants who cover every stage of the oil industry