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Business Strategy

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Delivery of classes for the next generation
FURUNO participates in the MUKOJO Mirai☆
Labo organized by Mukogawa Women’sUniversity. In this program, women with sciencebackgrounds share why they chose theircareers, the content of their current jobs, andthe satisfaction they find in their work.

Connect with society through sustainable activities
FURUNO believes that one of its major missions is to contribute to the sea and “connect the sea to thefuture.” In Nishinomiya city, where its headquarters is located, FURUNO is building opportunities for itsemployees to connect with the local community. FURUNO also supports round-the-world yachting
challenges, trans-Pacific sailing, and student races.

With the Local Community
Seido Junior High School (Ashiya City)

Work experience program to support marine safety and security
FURUNO is participating in a program filled withmany learning opportunities, such as living withthe sea, protecting the environment, andreceiving blessings from the sea, and is having

Children and employees who
participated in the eventchildren experience work related to the sea.
During the summer vacation, FURUNO also
held a challenge to solve the marine debris
problem with technologies to see the invisible.

Looking at a merchant ship simulator

Store) and Sakana no Oniisan Kawachan, aradio DJ and announcer. The event was entitled“Let’s connect Nishinomiya’s sea to the future.”

FURUNO’s young
employee providing
support
Delivering a message about the ocean,fish, and environmental issues

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Support for students taking exams
To make people aware and feel more familiar
with the company, FURUNO is running acorporate commercial. During the entrance
exam season, FURUNO posts original
messages for students preparing for entrance
exams at Hankyu Nishinomiya-Kitaguchi
Station, the closest station to our headquarters.
Poster in Hankyu Nishinomiya-Kitaguchi Station

Experiment in a large water tankLet’s connect Nishinomiya’s Sea to the future - What kind of sea is Nishinomiya’s sea?
With the aim of making people feel morefamiliar with the sea as a company nurtured bythe sea, we held an event together with
Nishinomiya Hankyu (Hankyu Department

Students asked so many questions they losttrack of time!

Children participating inthe quiz

Connecting the ocean to the future through food and learning
FURUNO wants to bring the charm of the sea
to as many people as possible. At the Miyakko
Opening Festival, FURUNO served seafood
paella as an activity to encourage people tolove fish. A talk show by Sakana no Oniisan
Kawachan was also held at the same time,
conveying the appeal of the sea in terms ofboth food and learning.

Colorful patterns on fish
illustrations

Fish lecture by Sakana no Oniisan
KawachanFish dismantling show by employees

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Morning Cafe Project, where people
naturally connect

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We Want You to Know FURUNO: Corporate Commercials

A morning cafe project is being implemented in
front of the new R&D building, SOUTH WING.
Kitchen cars operated by restaurants in the
Nishinomiya area are set up to provide a place
where people can naturally gather and connect.

FURUNO produced a series of corporate
commercials titled “We want you to know FURUNO”
and aired them at stations near our Nishinomiya
headquarters and other locations. In addition, as a
new initiative in FY 2022, the commercials weredisplayed at Hankyu Nishinomiya Gardens and werealso broadcast on all screens of TOHO Cinemas
Nishinomiya OS for about six months. FURUNO willcontinue our efforts to realize a safe, secure,comfortable, human- and eco-friendly society andvoyage, as well as to enhance our brand value.

Kitchen Car in front of SOUTH WING

Trash picking & jogging “Plogging"“Plogging” is a new fitness activity originating inSweden that is a combination of trash pickup
and jogging. Running is healthy, picking up

My father works at FURUNO

Global company at Nishinomiya

trash is eco-friendly, and it provides a newopportunity for interaction among residents andemployees!

We want you to know FURUNO
We finally made these corporate commercials!

Plogging for a healthy mind and body!

Tongs in the right hand and a garbage bag in the left. His dream is to make Nishinomiya City a city of plogging!
Broadcast at Hankyu
Nishinomiya-Kitaguchi Station

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Gate pavilion vertical signage broadcast

TOHO Cinemas Nishinomiya OSbroadcast

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Round-the-world challenge: MILAI I0I
desire to pass on to the next generation thebeauty of challenging the world.

GLOBE 40 is a round-the-world yacht race in which two people aboard a yacht sail around theworld. The race started in June 2022 from Tangier, Morocco, and competitors returned to thestarting point after eight legs (total distance of about 55,000 km).

World’s oldest person to cross the Pacific Ocean alone: Kenichi HorieAfter 69 days of sailing from San Francisco, Kenichi Horie
became the world’s oldest person (83 years old) to complete
a solo crossing of the Pacific Ocean on a yacht. FURUNO
provided him with a satellite-based tracking system thatenabled him to monitor his voyage in real time. FURUNO willcontinue to support Mr. Horie, a “lifelong challenger.”Business Strategy

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In November 2022, FURUNO sponsored the87th All Japan Student Yacht Championship(Lake Biwa), where top university student
sailors from all over Japan gather to decide thepinnacle of sailing. FURUNO decided tosupport this event empathizing the strong
desire of students to challenge the unknownsea.

The Hyogo Junior Open Championship (AshiyaCity, Hyogo) is for elementary and junior highschool sailors in Hyogo Prefecture who havehigh hopes for the future. FURUNO sponsors
this event because it shares the desire toprovide a place to learn about, love, andchallenge the sea.

Umi no Koshien
Kenichi Horie

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Hyogo Junior Open Championship

GLOBE 40

Off the coast of Nishinomiya, the final goal. The FURUNO
MARU boat alongside Mr. Horie’s Suntory Mermaid III.

For Future Growth

All Japan Student Yacht Championship

For Those Who Take on Challenges

FURUNO supported Team MILAI, which
participated in GLOBE 40, a double-handed
round-the-world yacht race, sharing MILAI’s

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Umi no Koshien is a nationwide yacht race
combining the Youth Sailing Cup (for junior highand high school students) and the Nishinomiya
Sailing Cup (for the general public) and is held

off the coast of Nishinomiya. As a company
nurtured by the sea, FURUNO considers it its
role to support this valuable event.

Welcome event for Mr. Horie at FURUNO headquarters

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