March 15, 2024
Canon Marketing Japan Inc.

Canon Marketing Japan Concludes Stock Transfer Agreement on theAcquisition of Shares of Primagest, Inc., a Company Excelling in IndustrySpecific BPO Services

Canon Marketing Japan Inc. (President: Masachika Adachi, "Canon MJ") announces that it has
concluded a stock transfer agreement with PGT Holdings Joint Stock Company, which operates
under the umbrella of the Orix Corporation, regarding the acquisition of all of the shares ofPrimagest, Inc. (President: Hideaki Inagaki, "Primagest"), making it a subsidiary of the Canon MJ.

One of the basic policies the Canon MJ Group set out in its 2022-2025 Medium-term Management
Plan is simultaneously expanding the ITS business and securing profit. Guided by this Mediumterm Management Plan, it has been pushing forward with the creation of value through its servicesoriented business model. In the BPO business,* an area to be strengthened, Canon MJ aims to further
contribute to its customers’ efforts to improve their operational efficiency by not only building on its
operational record with a wide range of customers, including large corporations and small and medium
enterprises, but also utilizing the Canon MJ Group’ s proprietary technologies.
Primagest, engaged in contract services digitalizing analogue data such as data on paper, helps
customers facilitate drastic operational reforms through a range of measures such as the establishmentof systems in which digital data is not only processed and utilized but is also available to be used on asecondary basis. Through these efforts, it has been providing high value-added BPO services.
It has been working to develop industry-specific services as well. In particular, it has succeeded inoperating stable services focused on large corporations in the financial industry by proposing theimprovement of business processes from a perspective that is familiar with the client companies’
operations and leveraging the knowledge obtained through its involvement in many BPO operations.
Through these approaches, Primagest has been supporting clients in their efforts to improve operational
efficiency while also establishing strong trust-based relationships.
By making Primagest its subsidiary, Canon MJ will promote Primagest’s services throughout the Canon
MJ Group’s broad customer base. In addition, by incorporating Primagest’s knowledge and expertise into
the Canon MJ Group’s BPO business, it will enhance both operational efficiency and service quality while
also seeking to further expand the BPO business. Furthermore, by combining Primagest’s services withthe technologies and system development capabilities that the Canon MJ Group has developed throughits imaging solutions and document services, the two companies will seek to create new services as oneteam.
*Business process outsourcing. A company or other organization's outsourcing of a part of its operational processes, including planning,
design and implementation, to a specialized contractor all together.

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March 29, 2024 (planned)

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Primagest, Inc.
Solid Square East Building 12F, 580 Horikawa-cho, Saiwai-ku,
Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa
Hideaki Inagaki, President
1. Image information solutions
2. Development, manufacturing and system integration of hardware
and software for image information processing
3. Contracted services related to image information processing
4. Maintenance of the above hardware and software, sales ofconsumables, etc.
100 million yen (as of the end of December 2023)
July 1968
2,426 (including 677 permanent employees)(Year ended December 31, 2023)
https://www.primagest.co.jp/english/index.html

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