2026 New Year’s Greeting from President Hideya Moridaira
- Summary for the Employees -
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.
Challenging toward a new stage
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.
Growth of each individual
In order to achieve sustainable growth and increased corporate value, every employee must become more resilient to change and possess the ability to think and act autonomously. It is said that we will soon enter an era in which advances in generative AI will lead to job losses. However, the core areas will still require human thought, insight and action. To generate value through answers that are not just an extension of the past, there will continue to be roles for humans. We need to think about what value our work holds, talk often with those around us, take action after careful thought and follow through. This attitude will become even more important, and the results will lead to increased work-related satisfaction for all employees, as well as realization of the Purpose. Along with “Composing the core of a brighter world”, let’s aim to realize the Purpose.
Safety and health First
Reducing and eliminating occupational accidents and then continuing to achieve zero accidents. I ask you to further promote the activities directed at realizing zero accidents, a core pillar of our business activities. It may be difficult to maintain a constant awareness of safety during busy work days, but I ask you to promote deeper dialogue and implement measures for health and safety aimed at making awareness of safety a natural part of every day.
Furukawa Electric Group’s efforts towards the SDGs
Based on the “Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)” adopted by the United Nations, Furukawa Electric Group has formulated the “Furukawa Electric Group Vision 2030” which sets the year 2030 as its target and is advancing efforts with the aim to “Build a sustainable world and make people’s life safe, peaceful and rewarding, Furukawa Electric Group will create solutions for the new generation of global infrastructure combining information, energy and mobility.” Toward the achievement of our Vision 2030, we will take open, agile, and innovative approaches to promote ESG management that aims to increase corporate value over the medium to long term and will contribute to the achievement of the SDGs.
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