Message from the President

In 2010, Hitachi marked its 100th anniversary and reaffirmed its commitment to promoting growth in the global markets by focusing on social innovation businesses. Our goal is to keep our promise to our stakeholders and society by rebuilding a strong Hitachi. We will strengthen Hitachi by adopting business models based on facilitating collaboration among information, power and electrical industries at earlier stages of product and project development. We will enhance the businesses in which we are market leaders and leverage those that we have the greatest competency and most cutting edge technology, as well as executing further structural reform throughout the Hitachi group. As President, I will do my best to uphold our policy - “Utilizing our skills, utilizing our technologies” as a guiding force for my leadership and actions.

“The transformation to becoming a truly global company” is inevitable and will accelerate Hitachi's future growth. Looking for global resources while also having the ability to meet local needs in each country or region in the global market are of the utmost importance. For the future, I believe that retaining more resources for engineering in each region and maximizing the performance of all employees in the Hitachi group are vital components necessary to lead Hitachi into the future and help transform Hitachi into a globally recognized company.

Additionally, raising environmental awareness and expanding our solutions to address environmental problems are extremely important issues that must be considered on a global-scale. Hitachi has established our "Environmental Vision 2025" with the stated goal of helping to reduce CO2 emissions by 100 million tons a year by 2025. Hitachi recognizes the critical importance of the environment and energy conservation, and we are committed to promoting environmental value through our technologies in order to achieve a sustainable global environment.