ITOCHU won the Grand Prize of the 2016 Internet IR Award from Daiwa IR

November 22, 2016

ITOCHU Corporation (headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo; Masahiro Okafuji, President & CEO; hereinafter “ITOCHU”) announced today that it won the Grand Prize of the 2016 Internet IR Award selected by Daiwa Investor Relations Co., Ltd. (“Daiwa IR”), which is the IR consulting company of the Daiwa Securities Group.

The Internet IR Award is given to the companies that construct excellent websites for investor relations (IR) and effectively using for information disclosure and communication activities after the examination and evaluation of the websites of 3,698 listed companies, according to the concept of “5T&C”*. From this year, in addition to the conventional evaluation of the Japanese website, the evaluation items have widened to include the quality of the descriptions in English on the English IR site, the fairness of the volume of information disclosed, and the timing of the disclosure compared with the Japanese website. The companies whose total marks are at least ninety points are selected for the “Grand Prize”.
ITOCHU will continue to make improvements to its website and strive to actively provide information to all stakeholders under the recognition that the provision of information online is an important part of the IR activities.

  • *Timeliness, Transparency, Traceability, Trustworthiness, Totality, and Communication

the Grand Prize of the 2016 Internet IR Award from Daiwa IR