In accordance with the spirit of “Fairness, Innovation, and Harmony,” Marubeni believes in responding to the expectations of all its stakeholders — shareholders, customers, local communities, and employees — by increasing its corporate value to become a proud corporate group that contributes to social and economic development and helps to safeguard the global environment. To this end, Marubeni is making efforts to enhance corporate governance as the foundation for ensuring the soundness, transparency and efficiency of management.
In accord with this fundamental mindset, Marubeni has set independence standards for outside directors and Audit & Supervisory Board members and is upgrading its management oversight functions through its outside directors and Audit Supervisory Board members. Marubeni believes that constructive engagement with shareholders and investors plays an important role in medium- to long-term corporate value enhancement. Through such engagement, Marubeni seeks to understand and appropriately respond to shareholders and investors’ perspectives while gaining their understanding of its management policies.