- Please tell me the fundamentals about your stock.
- Please tell me about your stock issuances and your major shareholders.
- Please tell me about movements in your share price.
- Please tell me about your stock’s dividend.
- Where do I make inquiries regarding the various procedures involved in ownership of your stock (such as changes in address, registered seals and receipt of dividend payments)?
- Please tell me about the stock splits which have occurred since the stock was listed.
- How should I dispose of odd lots of stocks (amounts under 100)?
- Please tell me about your shareholders meetings. Also, what conditions apply to voting rights at the shareholders meetings?
- Do you hold shareholders’ roundtables and other such events? Do people living in regional areas have the opportunity to meet with your managers?
- Q : Please tell me the fundamentals about your stock.
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A : A summary of our stock is as follows:
Stock code 8251 Market Tokyo Stock Exchange, 1st, section Business field: Retailing Date of listing January 1987, listed on the Second Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Listed on the Ffirst Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in August 1988. Number of shares per unit 100 shares End of fiscal year Last day of February Transfer agent The Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co., securities division
- Q : Please tell me about your stock issuances and your major shareholders.
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A : Please see “Composition of Shareholders.”
- Q : Please tell me about movements in your share price.
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A : Please see “Stock Information.”
- Q : Please tell me about your stock’s dividend.
- A : A summary of our company’s dividends is as follows:
- - Our thoughts on dividends: Please see Basic Principle of Profit Sharing in the “Basic Management Policy.”
- - Forecasting dividends: Please see the summary of the latest Non-Consolidated Financial Statements available at “Financial Statements.”
- - Performance of the latest dividend: Please see Dividend Situation in the latest Non-Consolidated Financial Statements available at “Financial Statements.”
- - The regular dates when dividend payments are made: The dividend on profit is paid on the last day of February, and the midterm dividend is on August 31.
- Q : Where do I make inquiries regarding the various procedures involved in ownership of your stock (such as changes in address, registered seals and receipt of dividend payments)?
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A : Please make your inquiries at The Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co., securities division. Call 0120-176-417 from 9:00 a.m. - 5 p.m. on weekdays.
URL: http://www.sumitomotrust.co.jp/STA/retail/service/daiko/index.html (in Japanese only)For example:
For changes of address, registered seal or method of receiving dividend payments, please send a form reporting the changes plus a stock ownership form to the headquarters or branch of The Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. Please visit The Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. Home Page for location information.The procedures can also be done through your securities company. No charges apply in either case.
Since forms are obtainable by post, please confirm the address for requests at The Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. Home Page. Stock certificates need not be submitted; the procedures can be completed by sending the form reporting the changes along with a stock ownership form.
- Q : Please tell me about the stock splits which have occurred since the stock was listed.
A : The stock has split and was issued as follows since it was first listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange:
- - October 1988 Issues not requiring payment 1:0.1
- - October 1991 Stock splits 1-> 1.1
- - April 1995 Stock splits 1-> 1.1
- Q : How should I dispose of odd lots of stocks (amounts under 100)?
A : An application requesting the purchase of odd lots is necessary. Fill out the required information on the form, include your stock certificate, and submit these to either the securities division of The Sumitomto Trust & Banking Co. or any of its branches. (A stock certificate is not required if one was never issued.)
* To obtain the form necessary to request the purchase of odd lots, please call the securities division of The Sumitomto Trust & Banking Co. toll free at 0120-175-417.
- Q : Please tell me about your shareholders’ meetings. Also, what conditions apply to voting rights at the shareholders’ meetings?
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A : Our company’s annual shareholders’ meetings take place every year in late May. To obtain voting rights at the meetings, you must have been a registered shareholder as of the last day of February (or be on the list of bona-fide shareholders). To become registered, it is necessary for you to have owned at least one unit of stock (1,000 shares) issued by our company as of the fourth business day before the last day of February (a business day of The Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co., which is the agent for the registration lists.)
- Q : Do you hold shareholders’ roundtables and other such events? Do people living in regional areas have the opportunity to meet with your managers?
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A : Roundtables and other such events are currently not being held either in Tokyo or regions outside the capital. However, we would greatly appreciate hearing opinions on the company's management from all our stockowners during our shareholders’ meetings.
