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August 31, 2018MARUI GROUP Report Receives Bronze Awardin 2018 International ARC Awards,
the World’s Largest Annual Report Competition
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2017(English-language edition) won a Bronze award in the Integrated AR & CSR section of theSpecialized A.R. category of the 2018 International ARC Awards, the world’s largest
annual report competition.

■International ARC Awards
The International ARC Awards are a yearly annual reportcompetition held by U.S. independent evaluation institution
MerComm, Inc. Each year, numerous applications are received
from companies, nongovernmental organizations, government
agencies, and other parties from around the world. Uninfluenced
by advertisers or sponsors, reports are submitted to impartial
evaluations by judges selected from a wide range of fields.
Judging criteria include financial information as well as the president’s letter, vision, andother management information and visual aspects such as report concept and design.

■Co-Creation Management Report 2017MARUI GROUP issues two reports for shareholders, investors, and other stakeholders:co-creation management reports, which are integrated reports that focus on management
strategies, and co-creation sustainability reports, which detail the Company’s connections
with communities and the greater society.

Co-Creation Management Report 2017, the recipient of this award, was developed witha focus on MARUI GROUP’s business model and forward-looking initiatives. Throughthis lens, the report examines the Company’s value creation activities from various
perspectives.
Public Relations Office, MARUI GROUP CO., LTD.
3-2, Nakano 4-chome, Nakano-ku, Tokyo 164-8701, Japan
Telephone: 03-3384-0101 (Receptionist) Fax: 03-5343-6615

■Focus on Business Model and Forward-Looking Initiatives

MARUI GROUP views its co-creation management reports as tools to be used in its
proactive engagement with shareholders, investors, and other stakeholders. Co-Creation

Management Report 2017, the most recent iteration of this report, focused on theCompany’s business model and forward-looking initiatives. To facilitate an even deeper
understanding of these matters, we increased the number of dialogues with stakeholders
included in the report, which proved popular in the previous year’s report, and explained
our value creation activities from a variety of perspectives.

■Major Topics of Co-Creation Management Report 2017○ MARUI GROUP’s Vision for Co-Creation Management
We strived to communicate MARUI GROUP’s uniquebusiness model and the opportunities and threats faced in
the retailing and FinTech businesses through a message fromthe president and a dialogue with an institutional investor.
○ Co-Creation Management Business ModelExplanations are provided on MARUI GROUP’s businessmodel in terms of its structure and the perspective ofinclusion it incorporates along with introductions to theemployees, organization, and corporate culture underpinning
this business model.

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This report looks at MARUI GROUP’s practice of co-creation
management by examining the Company’s management
team; corporate governance systems; target balance sheet, atopic that garnered a strong response in the previous year’s
report; and the Co-Creation Management Academy future
leader development program.

■Three-Year Cycle of Co-Creation Management Reports andCo-Creation Sustainability Reports
We view the three years since we published our first co-creation management report in2015 as one cycle, and both our co-creation management reports and our co-creation
sustainability reports were compiled based on this cycle.
In the first year of this cycle, we made our co-creation management declaration. The
theme of the reports in the second year was co-creation management from a corporate
value perspective. In the third year of this cycle, Co-Creation Management Report 2017
explains our co-creation management business model. We hope that, by reading thereports from all of these years, you will gain a deeper understanding of MARUI GROUP’s
concept of co-creation management. MARUI GROUP’s co-creation management reports
and co-creation sustainability reports can be viewed by clicking on the following links.
http://www.0101maruigroup.co.jp/en/ir/lib/i-report.html
http://www.0101maruigroup.co.jp/en/sustainability/lib/s-report.html
2015
Co-Creation Management
Declaration

2016
Co-Creation Management froma Corporate Value Perspective- 3 -2017
Co-Creation ManagementBusiness ModelEditorial Policy for Co-Creation Management Report 2017

Co-Creation Management Report 2017 was created as an integrated report that contains
performance, business, and financial information centered on the Group’s corporate
philosophy and business strategies. It also comprehensively includes environmental,social, and governance information on the activities that support the Group’s sustainablegrowth. The International Integrated Reporting Framework released by the International
Integrated Reporting Council was referenced in the development of this report.

■Company Overview
Name: MARUI GROUP CO., LTD.
Head Office: 3-2, Nakano 4-chome, Nakano-ku, Tokyo 164-8701, Japan
Telephone: 03-3384-0101 (Receptionist) Fax: 03-5343-6615
Corporate Website: http://www.0101maruigroup.co.jp/en/
President and Representative Director: Hiroshi Aoi
Major Affiliates: MARUI CO., LTD.; Epos Card Co., Ltd.; AIM CREATE CO., LTD.; etc.

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