Shareholder Information

Transfer Agent for Common Stock

The Sumitomo Trust and Banking Company, Limited
4-4, Marunouchi 1-chome, Chiyoda-ku,
Tokyo 100, Japan

Stock Exchange Listings and Quotations

NEC common stock is listed on the Tokyo and seven other stock exchanges in Japan. Overseas listings are on the Swiss Exchange (in the form of Swiss Bearer Depositary Receipts), Frankfurt Stock Exchange (in the form of a Global Bearer Certificate), London Stock Exchange, and Amsterdam Stock Exchange. American Depositary Receipts for common stock are quoted in the NASDAQ system in the United States.

Depositary for American Depositary Receipts (ADRs)

The Bank of New York
101 Barclay Street, New York, NY 10286, U.S.A.

Sponsoring Bank for Global Bearer Certificate (GBC)

Deutsche Bank A.G.
Taunusanlage 12, 60262 Frankfurt am Main 1,Germany

Depositary Agent for Swiss Bearer Depositary Receipts (SBDRs)

Swiss Bank Corporation
Aeschenvorstadt 1, 4002 Basel, Switzerland

Composition of Shareholders

Stock Price Range on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (Yen)

ADR (NASDAQ) Price Range (U.S. dollars)

Trademarks

• HYPERMS, SX-4 series, 98MATE Value Star, StarOffice, DS-2000, mesh, The Cyber Plaza, CanBeJam, Sakana Hakkei, GMAKER, PC-FXGA, PC-FX, PrivateNet, and ATM MERMAID appearing in this annual report are trademarks of NEC Corporation in Japan.
• NEC, C&C, ATOMNET series, ACOS, VR4300, VR10000, VR series, NEUFOS, NEAX61, MultiSync, CromaClear, and Silicon View Player are trademarks of NEC Corporation in Japan and other countries.
• Versa series is a trademark of NEC Corporation in the United States and other countries.
• Windows and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
• Pentium is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation.
• Rambus is a trademark of Rambus, Inc.
• Power VR and VideoLogic are trademarks of VideoLogic Limited.