ITOCHU Corporation (headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo; Keita Ishii, President & COO; hereinafter “ITOCHU”) announced today that it won Gold Award for the fifth consecutive year and The Best Gold Award (the only recipient among the Gold Award) for the second consecutive year with high evaluations from all the judges at WICI Japan Integrated Report Award 2024.

The World Intellectual Capital/Assets Initiative (WICI) was founded in 2007 and consists of business companies, financial analysts and investors from private-sector, in addition to public offices and researchers from academia. The awarding organization is WICI Japan, the Japanese branch of WICI established in 2008. This prestigious award program was established in 2013 as the WICI Japan Award for Excellence in Integrated Reporting as a part of measures promoting integrated reporting in Japan. WICI Japan became a general incorporated association on October 1, 2020, and renamed the award the WICI Japan Integrated Report Award. This year marks the twelfth time the awards have been granted.

ITOCHU’s Integrated Report 2024 was praised for its near perfect integrated reporting that could be a model for other companies’ integrated reports. Also, it was highly acclaimed as “a company whose management is carried out with the integrated thinking, and whose medium- to long-term value creation capabilities are shown in an easy-to-understand manner in relation to each stakeholder, with the expectation that it will continue to increase its corporate value.” Also we received extremely high evaluations from all the judges in the final review and demonstrated a standout presence, surpassing every other candidate else, which resulted in a very high rating same as last year.

ITOCHU will continue to improve its integrated reports and provide its investors and other stakeholders with useful financial and non-financial information.

https://www.itochu.co.jp/en/ir/doc/annual_report/

https://wici-global.com/index_ja/2024/12/02/4534/