Skills Matrix

The Company formulated future135, its medium-term vision for the six years ending fiscal 2024, in which we will celebrate the 135th anniversary of its founding. In the first three years of future135, we continued to further promote businesses under the basic policies for sustained growth in core businesses, expansion of scale through business investments, and profit growth with increased additional value. In the final three years, in addition to realizing these basic policies, we added the commitment to promoting SDGs and DX to its priority initiatives, and as a trading company, we will drive the business development on a global scale. In order to make headway with these initiatives, the Board of Directors has positioned it as important responsibility to provide effective advice and supervision from a strategic and holistic perspective on the management issues to realize “ future135.” Accordingly, the Company has designated the following nine areas related to its priority initiatives as the skills that the Board of Directors ought to possess: “Corporate management,” “Business strategy planning,” “Human resource management,” “Governance,” “Investment judgment,” “Finance,” “Managerial idea of SDGs (ESG),” “Technology/DX,” and “Innovation.”