2026 New Year’s Greeting from President Hideya Moridaira

To all employees of Furukawa Electric Group, Happy New Year!
I would like to thank you all for your dedication and hard work.
Last year as a group, we improved our financial results and realized growth towards taking the next leap forward. We are progressing in a good direction thanks to your understanding of the company policy and cooperation in promoting the businesses. I feel the market and customer expectations have increased, and in order to respond to these expectations, let’s work together to achieve the targets during the final three months of the Furukawa Electric Group 2022-2025 Medium-term Management Plan “Road to Vision 2030 – Transform and Challenge”, as well as the future vision.

Our current Medium-term Management Plan will end in March, and from April, we will move to a new stage. There are only 5 years left until 2030, and although this may seem at first glance to be a long time, it will go by in the blink of an eye. While further crystallizing and achieving the targets set in the Furukawa Electric Group Vision 2030, I intend to focus on clarifying the measures set forth every year and working to definitely implement them. I ask all of you to give even more thought to the operational issues and targets to be achieved and strive to carry out the work.
Last year involved a large number of consequential events, such as the booming data center market following the large-scale investments in generative AI, increased uncertainty in trade policies, the economic slowdown in China, prolonged weak yen and rising cost of living. The changes occurring around the world are happening faster and at greater scale, and it is becoming more difficult to foresee the future. However, I believe we can rise even higher by increasing our ability to respond to change and transforming that change into opportunity. Centered on our Group Purpose, let’s pursue sustainable growth and increased corporate value.