TAIYO YUDEN remains focused on its goals to be an excellent company as viewed by our shareholders through enhancing corporate value, to be recognized as a strategic partner by our customers, to become a company in which employees take pride, and in being an entity that earns public respect. All of the companies under the globalizing TAIYO YUDEN Group share in this common aspiration and are committed to working as a cohesive whole to become an enterprise trusted by all stakeholders, including shareholders, customers, employees and local communities.