Business and Management Initiatives : Corporate

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• Cautionary Statement

Corporate

• 1. Opnext, Inc. listed on the NASDAQ exchange, Hitachi, Ltd. sold shares of Opnext and Opnext became Hitachi’s Equity-method affiliates (February 2007).

• 2. Hitachi sold shares of Nakayo Telecommunications, Inc. (December 2005).

• 3. Hitachi sold shares of Elpida Memory, Inc. (September 2005).
  • News Release (September 2005)

• 4. Hitachi sold shares of ShinMaywa Industries, Ltd. (May 2004).
  • News Release (May 2004)

• 5. Hitachi Establishes "Hitachi Group Headquarters" to develop and execute group management strategy expanding Hitachi's group synergy (April 2004).
  • News Release (April 2004)

• 6. Hitachi extended a personnel and compensation system with increased emphasis on merit and performance to non-managerial employees (April 2004).

• 7. Shares of Nitto Denko Corporation owned by Hitachi's subsidiary Chuo Shoji, Ltd. were sold (July 2003).
  • News Release (July 2003)
  • News Release (July 2003)

• 8. Hitachi, Ltd. and 18 publicly-held Group companies adopted the Committee System (June 2003).
  • News Release (January 2003) (PDF format 27KB)