Stakeholders

Toshiba Group's business activities involve relationships with diverse stakeholders. Here we clarify definition of each stakeholder, points of communication, and responsibilities of Toshiba Group.

Major Stakeholders

Examples of Communications

Customers

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Shareholders/Investors

Toshiba will continue to actively disclose risk and other information, so that the disclosure structure throughout the entire Toshiba Group may provide information promptly, and contribute to our shareholders' and investors' profits.

Communication with Shareholders [Point of contact: Legal Affairs Division and Corporate Communications Division]

General Meeting of Shareholders

On June 27, 2018, Toshiba held its ordinary general meeting of shareholders, which was attended by 619 people. At the ordinary general meeting of shareholders, we obtained approval for four agenda items such as the election of directors and share consolidation and others.
On June 26, 2019, Toshiba held its ordinary general meeting of shareholders, which was attended by 752 people, and we obtained approval for two agenda items: Amendment of the Articles of Incorporation and the election of directors.

We will continue to make efforts to run our general meetings of shareholders so that our shareholders may have a better understanding of Toshiba.

Publication of Shareholder Newsletters

Toshiba Group strives to communicate with individual shareholders through our shareholder newsletters.

Shareholder Newsletter (Japanese)

Communication with Investors [Point of contact: Corporate Communications Division]

Communication with Institutional Investors and Securities Analysts

We hold analyst briefings on the same day as our quarterly business results announcements. We also hold strategy briefings and factory tours for individual businesses. Executive officers, including the CEO, visit major shareholders in Japan twice a year. We also actively communicate with overseas investors, and executive officers, including the CEO, visit major shareholders in the U.S., Europe and Asia to explain business activities and management policy. We also participate in conferences, both overseas and in Japan.
Further, we have decided to set up a mechanism for dialogues between an outside directors and shareholders that was pointed out as one of future issues in the evaluation of the effectiveness of the Board of Directors. Accordingly, in January 2019 we held a meeting between the chairman of the Board of Directors, who is an outside director, and a group of shareholders from both overseas and Japan.

Meeting between an outside director and a group of shareholders

Enhancement of IR Website

On our IR website, we endeavor to provide all investors, including individual investors, with fair, timely and easy-to-understand information disclosure that helps them to evaluate their investment decision. We meet investor requests by providing audio feeds, including live streaming, of presentations and Q&A sessions during major briefings for analysts.
We also set up the questionnaire page on our website.

IR Website

Questionnaire on the IR Website

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Suppliers

Communication with Suppliers [Point of contact: Procurement Division]

Request to suppliers for promoting CSR management

We ask suppliers to promote CSR management through daily procurement operations. In FY2014, we revised our procurement policy so that the priority requirement when choosing new suppliers upon starting or continuing business relationships is to comply with laws and ordinances as well as social codes, and we made this revision fully known to each of Toshiba Group's approx.10,000 suppliers (cumulative total). In addition, we conduct surveys on suppliers based on the RBA Code of Conduct presented in Toshiba Group's procurement policy to confirm the status of compliance.

CSR Management in the Supply Chain

Cooperation with Industry Organizations

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Employees

Communication with Employees [Point of contact: Human Resources and Administration Division, Legal Affairs Division, and Corporate Communications Division]

Messages from top executives

Top executives deliver messages to Group employees concerning the importance of such matters as CSR promotion, enhancement of customer satisfaction, strengthening quality and legal compliance. In addition to this, in FY2018 Mr. Kurumatani, new chairman & CEO, explained such matters as a sale of the memory business and policy on shareholder return using video and email.

Employee morale survey (TEAM survey) and disclosure of results

Toshiba has conducted the employee morale survey (TEAM survey) every year since FY2003, as a way to gain feedback from employees. Through this survey, we periodically monitor the level of understanding among our employees towards the company's each measures, and how widespread this understanding is. We strive to improve the issues that emerge to help enhance corporate culture. The survey assesses employees' understanding of company's measures and whether their working conditions allow them to exercise their abilities. We are also investigating questions about opinions regarding such things as the top management and the status of compliance.

Fair Evaluation and Talent Development

360-degree survey

We conduct a 360-degree survey for managers every other year. We investigate managers from multifaceted perspectives with regard to their day-to-day work attitude and actions, with such perspectives including those of managers themselves, as well as of their subordinates, peers, and supervisors. The main aims are to encourage the growth of managers by repeatedly identifying strengths and weaknesses and confirming progress in an objective manner, and to enhance their leadership in order to create a more sound organization.

Fair Evaluation and Talent Development

CSR workplace meetings

We hold CSR workplace meetings, so that managers and the employees they manage can talk and think together at a workplace level, and share feelings and opinions, in order to build a work environment where everyone feels free to discuss any matter. Themes are set every year and include communication style, and verification of compliance awareness. Increasing understanding of differences in individual philosophies among employees helps create a better workplace environment for the future and enhance CSR awareness.

Risk Management and Compliance

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Local communities

Communication with Local Communities [Point of contact: Each company and business site]

Environmental communication

We communicate information about our environmental efforts, such as factory visits and nature-watching sessions, and the Toshiba Group Environmental Exhibition. This is so that a wide range of stakeholders, such as the communities around our factories and offices, schools, customers, companies, and students, may learn about Toshiba Group's activities, and think about the environment together with us.

Environmental Communication

Coexistence with Local Communities

Toshiba Group not only seeks to resolve issues faced by local communities through business, but to do various activities that are rooted in the area as a member of the local community.

Coexistence with Local Communities

Social Contribution Activities

Toshiba Group actively engages in a range of social contribution activities in addition to business activities toward the realization of a sustainable society.

Social Contribution Activities

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Governments and public bodies

Communication with Governments [Point of contact: Each company, business site, and Government & External Relations Office]

Participation in Industry Associations

Toshiba actively participates in the activities of Keidanren (Japan Business Federation), Japan Electrical Manufacturers' Association, the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association, the World Economic Forum (WEF), and other industry organizations to help address various issues such as the realization of a sustainable society and protection of the global environment.

Participation in External CSR Organizations

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NPOs/NGOs

Communication with NPOs and NGOs [Point of contact: CSR Management Office and Environment Management Office]

Support for and collaboration with NPOs and NGOs

We are making the most of our strengths to establish partnerships with NPOs and NGOs across a wide range of areas such as environmental protection, human rights, and social contribution by holding active dialogues with such organizations.

We review our support for and collaboration with NPOs and NGOs based on criteria such as the degree of contribution to solving social problems, relationships with Toshiba's priority business sectors, creativity, pioneer spirit, and relations with local communities.

Participation in External CSR Organizations

Respect for Human Rights

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Global environment

Key responsibilities

• Mitigating climate change
• Reducing waste discharges
• Reducing release of chemicals
• Conserving biodiversity

Environment Website

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