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02
To Our Shareholders
The Beginning of FORWARD 08
Our FORWARD 08 medium-term management plan
marked the start of a new phase of growth. During
the first fiscal year of this plan ended March 2007,
we were able to achieve significant progress.
In order to further strengthen our growth potential,
we will emphasize the Business Technologies and
Optics businesses as growth areas, focus management
resources, and unfailingly execute our “genre-top”
strategy to establish a position as the top brand in selected
markets and business domains.
Growth Strategy Produces Significant Results
We believe the fiscal year ended March 2007 was a year which
confirmed the effectiveness of our growth strategy.
In Business Technologies business, we expanded our product line-up in the high- and medium-speed segment of
color MFPs and emphasized sales expansion. As a result, we were able to grow unit sales mainly in the European
market. In the Optics business on the other hand, the sales increase was supported by contributions from highly
functional TAC film centering on large LCD TV-use viewing angle expansion film and optical pickup lenses used in
next generation DVDs.