"Dexerials Integrated Report 2024" selected for the first time as an "Excellent Integrated Report" by GPIF's Asset Managers Entrusted with Domestic Equity Investment

Corporate

2025.03.18

Dexerials Corporation (Headquarters: Shimono-shi, Tochigi, Representative Director and President: Yoshihisa Shinya, hereinafter “Dexerials”) announced that “Dexerials Integrated Report 2024”*1 published by Dexerials has been selected for the first time as an “Excellent Integrated Report”*2 by the asset managers of the Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF)*3 entrusted with domestic equity investment.

Each year, the GPIF, one of the world's largest pension funds, requests its asset managers entrusted with domestic equity investment to nominate “excellent integrated reports” and “most-improved integrated reports” and announces the results. This year, 18 investment management institutions each selected up to 10 integrated reports, and 78 companies, including Dexerials, were selected as “excellent integrated reports” and 93 companies were selected as “most-improved integrated reports.

In the current fiscal year, to clarify the direction Dexerials should take in the VUCA*4 era based on the significance of Dexerials’ existence in society, Dexerials has formulated and announced its Purpose, “Empower Evolution. Connect People and Technology,” and Dexerials has reached a major milestone with the start of its 2028 medium-term management plan, Achieving Evolution, which was formulated by backcasting from the realization of the Purpose and its medium- to long-term aspirations.

Dexerials substantially revamped the content of this report to be more future-oriented and story-driven, with the main theme of “Realizing Our Purpose, Advancing to the Next Stage.” The report introduces Dexerials' medium- to long-term direction and growth strategy, the essence of the sustainability that Dexerials aims for, the technology and human resources that are the source of value creation, the identification of key issues from an ESG perspective, the significance and approach to addressing these issues and specific challenges.

Dexerials will continue to utilize various tools, such as the “Dexerials Integrated Report”, to facilitate stakeholders having a better understanding of Dexerialst and to connect their opinions to the continued sustainable growth of Dexerials and the enhancement of its corporate value.