For Shareholders and Investors

Policy

Main Activities and Results (Fiscal 2012)

External Ratings and Evaluation

Objectives and Achievements

Policy

Shareholders and other investors constitute one of NEC's most important stakeholder groups. By raising the transparency of management through timely, appropriate, and fair disclosure, NEC aims to deepen the investment community's understanding of its corporate value.

Main Activities and Results (Fiscal 2012)

Shareholder Meetings

We regard shareholder meetings as an important forum for communication with shareholders. To make it easier for more shareholders to participate, we avoid scheduling meetings on peak days when the shareholder meetings of other companies are concentrated.
When voting rights are to be exercised, we make efforts to ensure that all shareholders fully understand matters on the agenda through steps including mailing notices of shareholder meetings as early as possible while posting these notices on our website.

In fiscal 2012, we enhanced information provided to shareholders who could not attend the shareholder meeting. For example, we posted the voting agenda and other materials on our website on the day of the shareholder meeting. Voting results were announced on our website the day after the meeting. We also made a webcast of the shareholder meeting and presentation materials available for a certain period.
We provide the means for shareholders to exercise their votes when they are unable to attend a shareholder meeting on the day it is held-in addition to voting by mail, shareholders may also exercise their votes over the Internet.

Direct Dialogue with Investors and Securities Analysts

In order to facilitate greater understanding of our business operations, financial trends, and strategies, we hold management-led earnings briefings, as well as briefings on specific business operations and other presentations.

In fiscal 2012, NEC held management-led earnings presentations (4 presentations a year; including presentations in May and October 2011 and January 2012 by the president of NEC), briefings on operations by the executives in charge of business units (April 2011, October 2011 and March 2012), and a presentation on Research " Development at NEC (December 2011).

With emphasis on direct dialogue with securities analysts and institutional investors, NEC management and IR staff actively visited investors in Japan and overseas.

As in the previous fiscal year, NEC IR staff continued to hold briefings for individual investors at the branch offices of securities firms, in order to enhance information provided to this group of investors (held 5 times in fiscal 2012).

IR Website

NEC provides shareholders and other investors with a variety of information through its IR website, in order to deepen their understanding of its business operations. In fiscal 2012, we continuously upgraded our IR website with the aim of making it easier for visitors to use and understand. The IR website is outlined as follows:

• To help visitors find desired information more efficiently, we collect data on frequently visited webpages and reflect the results in the Top 5 Most Viewed Webpages feature we have created on our website (Japanese site only). We have reorganized a diverse array of content, including IR Library, Financial Data, Stock and Bond and other sections of our website by category and posted this information on the website. In this way, we have structured the website to allow users to easily find needed information.
• We strive to provide the latest financial data, press releases and other information in a timely manner. There is also an IR E-mail distribution service that provides updated information on a timely basis to subscribers via email. Schedules for planned earnings presentations and various other events, as well as plans to post publications on the website, are announced on the IR Calendar of Events as soon as details are determined.
• In order to ensure fair disclosure of information disclosed at presentations for institutional investors and securities analysts to the general public, we post presentation materials and Q&A details on the website in a timely manner. Audio streaming of presentation details is also provided promptly. From fiscal 2011, we also started posting summary versions of certain presentation materials, as part of efforts to develop website content that is easier to understand.
• We upgraded our webpage for individual investors（Japanese site only） with new content, including announcements of briefings for individual investors launched in fiscal 2011 and reports on the briefings. We also posted presentation materials handed out at the briefings, along with main questions and answers.
• There is also a FAQ section that helps to immediately answer questions or clear up uncertainties about NEC. We also have an Inquiry Form, which makes it easy to ask questions. We also provide a Website Questionnaire form on our site to gather opinions from visitors that helps us to develop an IR website that is easier to use and understand.

Please follow this link for information for shareholders and other investors.

Annual Report

The annual report contains a message from the president, NEC’s management strategies, business trends by segment and financial statements.

Please follow this link to view our annual reports.

External Ratings and Evaluation

Socially Responsible Investment (SRI)

NEC holds discussions with SRI research companies and investment firms who manage SRI funds, and otherwise strive to facilitate greater understanding of our CSR activities.
As a result of these efforts, NEC stock has been included in the following SRI indices and SRI funds:

Major SRI indices

• Dow Jones Sustainability World Index
  SAM Bronze Class
• FTSE4Good Global Index
• Ethibel Excellence (universe)
• MS-SRI Morningstar Socially Responsible Investment Index

Major SRI funds in Japan

Others

NEC’s investor relations (IR) website has earned acclaim, ranking 10th overall (previously 52nd) in the Gomez IR Website Ranking 2011 by Gomez Consulting Co., Ltd. (currently Gomez Consulting Business Department of Morningstar Japan K.K.), as announced in April 2011.
NEC’s IR website ranked 5th overall in the 2011 Excellent Corporate Website Ranking for all listed companies by Nikko Investor Relations Co., Ltd. (previously 10th), as announced in November 2011. NEC also received the Grand Prize Award for Best Corporate Internet IR and Best Company 2011 (after receiving the Award for Best Corporate Internet IR 2010) from Daiwa Investor Relations Co., Ltd. in December 2011.

Objectives and Achievements

Objectives for the Medium Term (From Fiscal 2011 to Fiscal 2013) and Fiscal 2012, Achievements and Progress, and Degree of Completion

（Degree of completion: achieved/mostly achieved/some progress/no progress）

Fiscal 2013 Objectives

Internal Control (Compliance and Risk Management)

Business Continuity

Information security

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