Relationship with Shareholders and Investors
The TEL Group emphasizes fair, equitable, and timely disclosure of information to anddialogues with shareholders and investors, both in Japan and overseas.

Communicating with Shareholdersand Investors

Approaches to Information Disclosure

Annual Shareholders’ Meeting

Tokyo Electron is committed to disclosing information about theTo encourage lively discussions at annual shareholders’Company in a fair, prompt and accurate manner, to ensure thatmeetings and to encourage them to exercise their voting

all stakeholders, including shareholders and other investors, canrights, invitations are sent out early—more than threeobtain an accurate, in-depth understanding of the Company and its

weeks prior to the meeting—and for the convenience of ouractivities, and evaluate the Company’s corporate value appropriately.

shareholders, we work to avoid the date when most major

The Company also solicits feedback from its stakeholders as part

Japanese companies hold their shareholders’ meetings. Tokyoof its information disclosure activities, and uses the feedback as aElectron participates in the web-based voting platform forpoint of reference to guide corporate management.

institutional investors operated by Investor Communications
Japan Inc. (ICJ). To supplement the above shareholder
meeting related initiatives,

If it is subject to the marketable securities listing regulations

Tokyo Electron’s website(material information), Tokyo Electron will release information

carries notice of convocation,

simultaneously in a press release and via the Tokyo Stocknotice of resolution andExchange’s “Timely Disclosure Network” (DTnet), and will post

materials of shareholders’

the Information on its website as soon as possible, following themeetings. An English version

official announcement. Even when it does not fall into the categoryof the notice of convocationof “material information,” the Company will voluntarily discloseof Annual General Meeting

information which may be of interest to stakeholders, in a fair,of Shareholders is also

accurate, and easy-to-understand manner, either on its website orprovided.

Annual shareholders’ meeting

HIGHLIGHT

Information Disclosure Methods

Relationship with Customers and Suppliers
Relationship with Shareholders and Investors

Information Disclosurein printed form, through various means of communication.
To ensure that foreign investors have fair and equal access toFinancial Results Briefing
Tokyo Electron conducts meetings to discuss its financial

simultaneously in Japanese

results with securities analysts and investors; these meetingsand English. However, due

are also open to members of the press. The Company

to the time required formakes audio recordings of its fiscal year-end and mid-termtranslation, there may befinancial results meetings, and posts these recordings on thecases where the posting ofCompany’s website. All of the documents distributed at its
quarterly financial results meetings are also posted on theEnglish information to thewebsite is delayed slightly.

TEL webpage for investor relations

MANAGEMENT REPORT

the information, the Company strives to disclose all information

website.

Publicized IR-related Materials

Since September 2003, Tokyo Electron

EHS REPORTTokyo Electron isa constituent of
the FTSE4Good GlobalIndex.
has been chosen for the FTSE4Good

Presentation materials used
at a results briefing

Materials prepared for anannual shareholders’ meeting

Global Index, which is a CSR index
provided by the FTSE Group. The FTSE
a joint venture between the Financial

Financial summaryTimes newspaper and the London Stock
Exchange.

SOCIAL REPORTGroup is a world leading index firm,

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