Our main strengths lie in our possession of a matrix of trading company and maker functions and in our development of an area strategy and product strategy in a multilayered fashion while also making use of the group's network power, information gathering power, and cooperation power.
This past year, we have begun a manufacturing operation in Thailand involving housing forming and decorative evaporation EMI shielding processing by means of vacum deposition. In future, we will promote further globalization by developing our business in line with our three keywords of health, safety, and convenience, and we will create new added value overseas too. We have built up a business with global management as its core, which is not unduly influenced by changes in the economic environment.