ITOCHU Achieves Overall First Place in Nikko Investor Relations “All Japanese Listed Companies’ Website Ranking” FY2017

December 7, 2017

ITOCHU Corporation (headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo; Masahiro Okafuji, President & CEO; hereinafter “ITOCHU”) announced today that it has been selected as the No.1 listed company in the FY2017 All Japanese Listed Companies’ Website Ranking, announced by Nikko Investor Relations Co., Ltd.

The FY2017 All Japanese Listed Companies’ Website Ranking is a survey targeting the websites of all 3,720 listed companies in Japan.
It evaluates the extent to which each website incorporates elements that enable stakeholders (including shareholders, investors, consumers, transaction partners and potential employment seekers) to obtain information and to understand the company’s situation, based on 163 objective evaluation criteria, from the three perspectives of Understandability, Usability/Accessibility and Volume of Information.

■ ITOCHU Investor Relations Website
https://www.itochu.co.jp/en/ir/

Together with the winning of Grand Prize in the FY2017 Internet IR Award by Daiwa Investor Relations Co. Ltd., ITOCHU’s website has now received the highest awards from two major Japanese IR evaluation institutions.
Moving forward, ITOCHU will continue to pursue even greater excellence with its website; and will endeavor to provide information proactively to its stakeholders, recognizing that providing information via the internet is one important aspect of corporate IR activities.