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IIRF 2007 ANNUAL CONFERENCE:
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The IIRF deeply appreciates the support it receives from commercial partners and sponsors,
which helps us to carry out research and other activities. Without their help, we
would need to
charge at least twice as much in delegate fees for our annual conference.
If you are interested in sponsoring this event, please email us here
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Conference partners
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The Tokyo Stock Exchange is Japan's central market and
fulfills the vital function of providing a securities market that supports fund management and capital raising
for users both at home and abroad. It is committed to improving effectiveness and user convenience, to
further strengthening its self-regulatory functions, and to moving forward decisively towards the ultimate goal
of solidifying its position as the core market for the efficient flow of funds in Asia.
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Nomura Group is a
global financial services group dedicated to providing a broad range of financial services for individual, institutional, corporate
and government clients. The group¹s business activities include investment consultation and brokerage services for retail investors
in Japan, and, on a global basis, brokerage services, securities underwriting, investment banking advisory services, merchant
banking, and asset management
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IR Japan is Japan's largest specialized investor relations services
company, providing publicly listed companies with a full lineup of support services, including IR, shareholder relations and public relations
services. Since its establishment in 1984 as a pioneer in the IR field in Japan, IR Japan has consistently led the way in introducing innovative
services to the Japanese market.
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The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation is a global financial
services company focused on helping clients manage and service their financial assets, operating in 37 countries and serving more than 100
markets. The company is a leading provider of financial services for institutions, corporations and high-net-worth individuals, providing superior
asset management and wealth management, asset servicing, issuer services, clearing services and treasury services through a worldwide
client-focused team.
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Major sponsors
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Bowne provides financial, marketing and business communications
services around the world. Dealmakers rely on Bowne to handle critical transactional communications with speed and accuracy.
Compliance professionals turn to Bowne to prepare and file regulatory and shareholder communications online and in print.
Marketers look to Bowne to create and distribute customized, one-to-one communications on-demand.
With 3,200 employees in 60 offices around the globe, Bowne has met the ever-changing demands of its clients for more than 230 years.
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Broadridge is a leading full-service outsourcing
provider to the global financial industry, capable of meeting the most demanding requirements for efficient, secure and
scalable operational support. It is also the market's leading provider of investor communications, including proxy mailing
and vote processing, helping thousands of public companies and mutual funds worldwide communicate and conduct business with shareholders.
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Chorus Call brings over a quarter century of experience to the field
of international teleconferencing, with locations worldwide. It offers a complete range of audio, video and web-based
conferencing services, and specializes in managing IR event conferences. Chorus Call: The Diamond of Teleconferencing
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iR Global League provides a web-based platform for the mutual exchange
of information between companies and investors worldwide. Launched by the IIRF as a result of repeated demands by companies,
investors, advisers and event organisers, it is available through the IIRF website and the websites of its participating members and commercial
partners. Its primary service is a searchable list of investor events (company AGMs, webcasts, teleconferences, meetings, “roadshows”, etc),
which is helping companies to plan their events further in advance and avoid clashing with their peers.
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Nikko Cordial Group is a financial services group with nearly 90 years of history.
Its core businesses include retail securities service, asset management, investment banking and merchant banking. Nikko Cordial delivers
innovative and comprehensive financial solutions through mutual communication with customers, shareholders, and society.
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Taylor Rafferty is the leading independent investor relations firm,
offering a full range of advisory and operational support to domestic and international companies with ambitions to more effectively access the
capital markets. Taylor Rafferty's services blend more than two decades of financial markets expertise and innovation with the best technological
applications in investor relations.
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Other sponsors
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The Altman Group is the fastest growing proxy solicitation and corporate governance
consulting firm in the industry. Over the past three years, it has been retained by over 750 new clients globally. Its senior executives have over 200
years of proxy solicitation experience and have worked on over ten thousand annual meetings, hundreds of mergers, tender and exchange offers,
dozens of proxy fights and over 100 major bankruptcy cases.
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Euroinvestor.com is a fully independent internet media, with the sole purpose of helping
private investors make better investments. This is obtained by supplying an updated and relevant scope of information, such as: Stock-rates from
all over; News from leading sources; Various investment-tools. Its only sources of earnings are advertisements and sponsorships. No actors in
the market have ownership in the company, in order to preserve its independence.
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Euroland.com is a highly successful financial website that allows listed companies to
market and present their information to international investors. Investors can monitor and track shares across multiple stock exchanges and
sectors on the site. Euroland.com offer a broad range of services which listed companies can utilise to market their shares to existing and
potential new investors, including: cross-border, multi-exchange marketing; distribution of news and financial information through new investor
communications channels, tailor-made IR website tools, international targeting through European and North American media, and language
services
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The Hitachi Group's business activities cover a broad spectrum of fields-from power plants
and information and communication systems, to electronic devices, home appliances and their main components and materials. By drawing on
its pool of technologies and expertise fostered over many years, it is striving to meet the expectations of customers and to help create a
prosperous society and a better tomorrow.
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Pronexus is Japan’s leading financial printer, offering creation and printing of corporate
disclosure documents and other IR support services. Its main products include IPO documentation, financial reports and other earnings reports,
shareholder meeting materials for listed firms and web contents for IR, as well as disclosure documents for mutual funds, J-REITs, etc. In addition,
the company provides consulting, digitalizing services, information security support, printing and other support services to meet the latest legal
requirement, well-organized expertise and unique IT for a variety of customers’ disclosure and IR activities.
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Sony is a globally unique company primarily focused on the
Electronics (such as AV/IT products & components), Game (such as PlayStation), Entertainment (such as motion pictures and music),
and Financial Services (such as insurance and banking) sectors.
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Media partners
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Barrons, is America’s premier financial weekly publication.
Business and financial leaders turn to Barron’s every week for authoritative market analyses and insights on companies, industries,
sectors, the economy and financial markets. Barron’s has served the stewards of wealth since 1921 by delivering information they
need to make astute, profitable decisions about money.
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Business Wire:
Business Wire, a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, is the global market leader in commercial news distribution. Thousands
of member companies and organizations depend on Business Wire to transmit their full-text news releases, regulatory filings, photos and
other multimedia content to journalists, financial professionals, investor services, regulatory authorities and the general public worldwide.
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Institutional Investor: This premier financial monthly, through
its award-winning editorial and ground-breaking journalism, has earned the trust of leading financiers, corporate executives and
government officials. The magazine’s carefully controlled circulation, “must read” intelligence and editorial reach and vision,
make it a unique platform for advertisers wishing to reach the world’s most discerning and powerful audience.
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irasia.com: offers Asia Pacific companies a definitive tool to distribute verbatim
IR information to institutional, professional and retail investors. Since 1996, irasia.com has become a favorite resource among the global
investment community because of the convenience offered by having information in one single location. Client companies featured on
irasia.com enjoy unparalleled global exposure to, and increased brand recognition amongst, the target audience of shareholders and
potential investors.
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IR Magazine Essential
reading for all IR professionals - IR magazine is the definitive source of information
for the global IR community and is read by over 14,000 decision makers each month
. IR magazine is the essential business tool for all personnel involved in raising
capital for companies and others who communicate regularly with analysts and investors.
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Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide (Japan)
combines the global public relations and investor relations (IR) capabilities of Ogilvy Public Relations (OPR),
a member of the Ogilvy and WPP communications groups, with the IR experience and know-how of IBI, Inc.,
its predecessor company in Japan, which was founded in 1972 as Japan’s pioneering IR service provider.
Today, OPR Japan services include preparation of IR communications tools tailored to the needs of Japanese
and foreign investors and IR consulting services, including the development of corporate messages, investor targeting,
and M and A communications.
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The Wall Street Journal Asia is the leader in global
business news for Asia, providing indispensable news and analysis of regional and global business developments
for an influential pan-Asian audience of corporate and government decision-makers. The Journal Asia has been vote
Asia's “Most important business reading" in every ABRS study since 1985.
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The Japan Investor Relations Society
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