Social Activities Report

Relations with Stakeholders
In order to perform its due social accountability as a corporate citizen, the FDK Group is committed to establishing aclose relationship of trust with its shareholders, customers and other stakeholders, and thrives to bring a sustainable andabundant society come true while achieving development of the company and society as a whole.

Communication with Shareholders and Investors
The FDK Group values on the relationship of trust with its shareholders and investors. For this purpose, it will disclose corporate information in a timely, legal and appropriate manner to enhance transparency of corporate management. By doing so, the FDK Group tries toaugment its corporate value and obtain high evaluation from the society.

Communicating with Shareholders
and Investors

Information Disclosure

The FDK Group set up Corporate Communication Oﬃce in April 2001

Recognizing that accurate and timely disclosure of corporate

to improve the quality of information provided to its stakeholders.

information to shareholders, investors and securities analysts is

The Oﬃce accepts interviews by outside institutional investors,

the basics for keeping the security market in strong condition, thesecurities analysts and fund managers and discloses corporate

FDK Group is committed to disclosing information in accordance toinformation via its website. News releases are distributed and press

the timely information disclosure rule of the Tokyo Stock Exchange

meetings are held to disseminate the activities of the FDK Group

Market and, for other information, it tries to disseminate promptly,

to its shareholders and other stakeholders.

accurately and in a fair manner. All those information are in principle

The FDK Group s website contains ﬂash reports of its statement

issued in both English and Japanese versions to provide them toof ﬁnancial settlements, business reports and other disclosures, asstakeholders in overseas.

well as the latest information on business performances of the GroupIn order to facilitate understanding of all stakeholders on the FDK

and new products, recruit information and social and environmental

Group, various news on product development, product strategy

reports made accessible to viewers in general.

and establishment of new oﬃces are released actively to enhance

The FDK Group is determined to make its public relations and IR

transparency of corporate management by which our corporate

activities more eﬀective by taking into consideration various opinions

values are lifted up.

posted to its website by viewers, telephone and fax as well asinterviews and press meetings.

Relationship with Customers
Under the belief of customer satisfaction ﬁrst, the FDK Group is committed to manufacturing products that can comply with the requirements of customers. Combined by electronic materials such as ferrites and ceramics FDK excels at as well as the latest technologies, theFDK Group continues to respond to the requirements of customers.

Fujitsu Battery Customer Center System

Communication with Customers
In order to strengthen two-way communication with customers
all over the world, a website has been in operation since 2003. Thewebsite is open to customers for making product-speciﬁc inquiries
and provides easy-to-understand product information.
A customer center is also open to customers who inquire about
Fujitsu batteries, which are consumer products, to deepen therelationship of trust with our customers. The opinions andcomments received by the center are accumulated and fed backto future product development processes for improvement inCustomersResponseInquiries(comments, questions, complaints, etc.)

Customer Center
Investigation
results

Information provision/ Request for investigation

Sales functions
Quality control divisions
Technology divisions
Manufacturing divisions
Collection, analysis, utilizationand improvement of information

order to provide better products and services to our customers.

Enhanced quality and services

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Social Activities ReportManagement andOrganizational Structure

Information Security andProtection of Personal Data

respond to the trust of them as its quality policy, the FDK Group

information arising from ﬁle swapping software and computervalues on manufacturing quality products. Quality and safety ofviruses. The FDK Group promotes appropriate use of information

products manufactured by the FDK Group are assured by Quality

and prevention of information leakage by establishing 6 in-house

Assurance Div., in cooperation with each department and site, inrules such as Information Management Rules (1999) and Informa-order to meet the level that customers require. As a part of thetion Management Rules for Personal Data Management (2003). Inquality and safety assurance activities, all of the sites of the FDK

order to ensure appropriate compliance of these regulations andGroup are certiﬁed as ISO9001 and ISO14001 compliant (internationalpolicies, an Information Management Handbook is distributed tomanagement system) to ensure maintenance and enhancement of

all employees to raise awareness of the importance of information

quality at each phase from R&D, design, production and logistics

management. In addition, the Policy for Protection of Personal Data

to after-sale services.

is a portal site on the company s intranet so that each employee canMore precisely, all FDK Group sites are instructed to observe therefer to learn various types of information related to it. As to thefollowings:-protection of private information, the Policy for Protection ofSite Report

Recently, people concerns about leakage of sensitive and private

Environmental Protection
Activities Report

With the provision of quality products to our customers toSocial Activities Report

Securing of Product Quality and Safety

personal Data is open to the employees through the company s･ To promote manufacturing of safe and eco-friendly products

intranet.

･ To enhance quality inspection system from the source of products

In order to prevent leakage of information from PCs, all PCs are･ To respond quickly to the requirements of customers

password-protected, and a software to encode data stored in the･ To prevent occurrence and recurrence of quality problems

hardware is installed in the PCs to be taken out of the company.
These measures aims at ensuring that even if a PC containing

Among them, the safety of products and assurance of environmen-sensitive and private information were lost or stolen, the contents

tal requirements are proactively addressed by establishing thecannot be retrieved in any way.

FDK Product Safety Charter and the criteria for controllingchemical substances included in products. Should a quality problem
happen in our products and services provided to our customers,
or should the occurrence of an accident and a damage are foreseen,
these are promptly communicated to all the departments and sections
in our company as critical issues, and conﬁrmed and examined at theManagement Council where root causes and countermeasures areexamined to minimize the damages arising from them.
From the onset of product development, assurance of quality isunderlined. For this purpose, Design Review Promotion Committee
is established to maintain examination of design quality in order

Information Management Regulation System
FDK Group Corporate Conduct Guidelines
Company rules
Information Management Rules
Information Management Rules
for Personal Data Management
Confidentiality- Third-Party Confidential
related rules Information Rules

Information
management
handbook

Confidential information
management rules

to prevent occurrence and recurrence of any quality problems.
Information System Security Rules
Systemrelated rules PC/Network Utilization Rules

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Relations with Stakeholders

Relations With Our Employees
The FDK Group develops skilled workers that can support the management of the company as the main actors of its corporate activities.
It also aims at establishing safe workplaces free of any disasters for the health of employees and becoming a company that can enjoy trustof the public.

Personnel System
One of the basic philosophies of the FDK Group is to establish a
corporate climate where each employee is proactively involved inworking. The basic concept in the company s personnel system
includes to respect people who values on creativity and innovation and who dare to challenge everything enthusiastically and toproactively get involved in raising business performances of thecompany to connect them to the growth and happiness of thecompany and its employees.
In FY2000, the FDK Group updated the personnel evaluation
system, job class system and other basic personnel management
systems. Since then, the company has proactively promoted thefollowing activities: to encourage all employees to take part in therealization of the management target autonomously and independently; to align vectors of all employees to the policies and targetsof the organization; to conduct fair personnel evaluation andtreatment that are acceptable to all employees.

Sustainable Improvement,
Sense of Achievement of Better Tomorrow,Self-Conﬁdence, Pride and Joy of Life to All

Education and Training System
The FDK Group provides various education and training systems
to employees such as orientations to new recruits, mass training
sessions to each layer of employees and skill and specialized
trainings for acquisition of technical knowledge and skills. In 2001,
an e-Learning system was introduced for the employees study attheir convenience, and has been in operation on the company s
intranet. The e-Learning includes basic course such as productknowledge, languages and basic PC handling. English and Chinese
language courses are also open to the employees by invited
instructors to enhance the language proﬁciency of employees.
The FDK Group opens correspondence education courses, which
include business skills, languages, hobbies, health and other broad
study areas, for employees and their family members.

New recruit orientation at
the company s training center(Q&A session with the president)

11Safety and Health Management
The FDK Group promotes various activities so that all employees
can work healthfully and safely. As to the safety, the CentralHealth and Safety Committee is held with the participation of therepresentatives of the company and the labor union where policies
relating to the safety and health of the company as a whole aredecided, disaster preventions, conﬁrmations of conditions ofdisasters, if happened, and measures against the disasters areimplemented. The safety and health at the level of each oﬃce areensured by conducting a safety and health patrols, holding Healthand Safety Committees in accordance with the company policies.

Employee Safety and Health Management Organization
Central Health andSafety Committee(held 4 times/year)

This represents the company
consisting of the representativesof both the union andthe management.

Site Health and Safety
Management Committee(held once a month)This is an organization set up
at each site consisting ofthe representatives of boththe union and the management.

･ Kosai Plant(incl. FDK Ecotec)･ Sanyo Plant･ Iwaki Plant･ Head Office and Sales･ FDK Energy Co., Ltd.
･ FDK Mechatronics Co., Ltd.
･ FDK Engineering Co., Ltd.
･ FDK Lifetec Corporation･ Fujidenka Research andAnalysis Center Co., Ltd.

Established by each site andcompany as required

Workplace Safetyand Health Promotion
Committee
Group Safety andHealth Activities

Health Management Oﬃce is responsible for regular medical checkups and providing health maintenance and promotion guidance for theemployees. An industrial physician is stationed in the health consultations to grasp and understand the health conditions of employees. In
case an employee has any health problems, the industrial physician,the Personnel Department
and management are incooperation with each otherto take appropriate measures
for the employee.

Safety and Health Patrols(Kosai Plant)

Social Activities ReportAward-Giving System

Environmental Protection
Activities Report

After the enforcement of the revised Law concerning
Stabilization of Employment of Older Persons (April 1,2006), the FDK Group maintains and operates a system ofrehiring staﬀ of retirement age. Chances of feeling job
satisfaction and committing themselves to challenging
works are open to all employees after reaching to 60 yearold, the retirement age of the FDK Group, who havestrong incentives for continuing working and developing
their skills.

Social Activities Report

The FDK Group has various sport clubs including baseball,
football, volleyball, marathon, tennis and surﬁng. It also
participates actively in matches with neighboring companies and local Ekiden (a marathon relay race).
Every year a softball match is held in cooperation with thecompany s labor union and supported by the company shealth insurance union. The softball match starts withlocal preliminaries. Survivors in the preliminary matches
can go to the national championship. All employees lookforward to the annual event because This is one of theoccasions that we do sport and deepen friendship of ourcolleagues, as said by one of them.

Management andOrganizational Structure

Rehiring Staff of Retirement Age

Clubs and Sport Events

Final game of a softball match

Site Report

All employees in the FDK Group who produced an outstanding result are recognized their performances in the pastyear, at the company s foundation anniversary ceremonyin February every year.

Entry for Kosai Ekiden

Pregnancy, Child Care and Nursing Needs
The FDK Group provides its employees with various
assistances including annual paid holiday, paid leaveaccumulation system, maternity leave and shorter working
hours, nursing leave and shorter working hours, so that they
can make family and working compatible. The accumulative paid holidays can be taken for long time leave due toillness and other reasons.
The employees can also take special holidays to take partin voluntary activities as a part of contribution to the society.

Participants (persons)

FY2006

Child Care Leave System

21

Nursing Care Leave System

1

Volunteer Activity Leave System

2

Shorter Working Hours System

37

Award-giving ceremony atthe company s foundation ceremony

Compensations for Employee Inventions
In order to revise the company s Employee Invention Regulation in line with the enforcement of the revised Patent
Law in 2004 and to make the compensation system known
to all employees, a series of hearings was held and relevant
information was disclosed to them. As the revision of theRegulation can enhance the incentives of engineers, thecompany s Patent Control Regulation was revised inJanuary 1, 2006 to include (1) a system of ﬁxed-rate compensation payment from the income of license fees and (2) asystem of rewarding to the retired.

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Relations with Stakeholders

Relationship with Suppliers
The FDK Group desires to gain and maintain good partnership with its suppliers by acting in accordance to FDK Corporate Action
Agenda, comprising basics of the Group s activities. In addition, in order to respond to the ever increasing requirement to a company tofulﬁll due social responsibility, including environmental preservation and compliance, the FDK Group is committed to green procurement
introduced in 2001.

Fair Transactions
The FDK Group promotes fair transactions with its suppliers in purchasing raw materials, parts, packaging materials and other resources
clarifying 'Basic attitudes for procurement ' in accordance to theMaterials Procurement Control Regulations.
【Basic Attitudes for Procurement】⑴ To ensure providing safe and quality products under the
principle of co-existence and co-prosperity with the business
partners⑵ To thoroughly understand the basic environmental protection policy stipulated in the FDK Environmental Charterand to procure items that contribute to the reduction ofenvironmental burdens⑶ To select business partners using fair criteria to promote
fair and lawful procurement activities⑷ To thoroughly understand and follow procurement-related
laws and regulations and to conduct businesses respecting the laws and regulations as well as social norms

Actions relating to Procurements
In order to perform its due social corporate responsibility, and inaccordance to its Green Procurement Guidelines, the FDK Grouphas been involved in green procurement activities (See P21). The
activities include support to its suppliers in establishing an EMS
and investigations on prohibited chemical substances.

Cooperation with Suppliers

In order to provide green products to its customers, it is imperative to obtain cooperation of suppliers delivering products to theFDK Group. For this purpose, the FDK is strengthening cooperative activities with its suppliers for non-use of prohibited chemical
substances and supply chain management.

Supports to Suppliers

The FDK Group tries to reduce environmental loads from its
overall supply chains. For this purpose, the FDK Group extends
supports to its supplier in reducing them, in addition to the eﬀorts
of minimizing those originated from the Group.

Supplier Assessment

The procurement function of the FDK Group regularly assesses
its existing suppliers as well as when a new supplier is selectedusing a Supplier Assessment Criteria Sheet.
The sheet contains such assessment items as quality, price, commitment to keep the designated delivery date, technical competency
as well as matters related to environmental preservation.

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Information Security
The FDK Group addresses maintenance of information security
and protection of private information (See P10).
The eﬀorts include raising awareness of its employees toward
protection of secret information of its suppliers and private information and measures taken for preventing leakage of informationfrom PCs brought out of the company premises.

Compliance
The FDK Group will set out a regulation relating to internal
governance to bind itself to a stricter compliance on procurement
activities, in order to perform its due corporate social responsibility. In addition, the FDK Group will keep a good relationship with
its suppliers and other stakeholders.

Compliance in Procurement Activities
Laws and Regulations
FDK Corporate
Action Guidelines

Green Procurement
Guidelines
ObservancewithinFDK Group

Internal Governance(future agenda)
Materials Procurement
Control Regulations

Supplier Assessment

Good Relationshipwith Stakeholders