In an effort to make its shareholders meeting more open and easier for shareholders to attend, OMRON schedules meetings to avoid days on which the shareholders meetings of other large companies are concentrated. OMRON also uses a conveniently located hotel at the JR Kyoto station as a venue. For shareholders unable to attend the meetings, OMRON has also introduced an electronic voting system by which they can exercise their voting rights.

Since fiscal 2006, OMRON has offered access to the Electronic Voting Platform for Institutional Investors. Using this system, it has become possible for institutional investors who entrust fund management to trust banks, and non-resident investors to conveniently exercise their voting rights via the Internet.

After the general meeting closes, a separate meeting follows to present detailed information on OMRON's business and management activities that cannot be covered by the general shareholders meeting alone.

In fiscal 2010, shareholders who exercised their voting rights totaled 9,653, which represents a voting rate of 81.7%. Those who attended the shareholders meeting totaled 607, or 25 more than the previous year. Shareholders who exercised voting rights in written form or via the Internet decreased 1,653 from the previous year to 9,046.

With its investor relations policy emphasizing two-way interactive communication with current and potential investors, OMRON is working to provide timely and accurate information on the company's business conditions and management policies. OMRON also aims to reflect investors' comments on its management strategies to the extent possible toward the aim of maximizing corporate value.

To enhance communication with individual investors, OMRON actively participates in corporate presentations and investor fairs. In fiscal 2010, OMRON participated in 27 investor relations events, communicating with some 3,000 investors.

For institutional investors, OMRON provided about 980 communication opportunities in fiscal 2010. These included the President's tours to personally meet investors throughout the world, presentations of business results and financial standing, teleconferences, and participation in investor relations conferences.

Input and feedback obtained through dialogues are relayed via the investor relations department to the President and the management team, and are used to help create various management strategies.

■Main investor relations activities conducted during fiscal 2010

• Quarterly meetings for presentation of business results and financial standing
• Teleconferences with investors in Japan, the U.S. and Europe at the time of financial results announcement
• Participation in investor relations conferences for institutional investors
• President visits to personally meet institutional investors in Japan and abroad
• Corporate presentations for individual investors
• President meetings with analysts and investors to exchange opinions
• Participation in investor fairs

• Investor Relations

To support interactive communication with investors, OMRON also proactively provides information regarding the development and marketing of products tailored to local market characteristics, as well as financial results, using various media including the Internet and mobile phone IR sites. The websites also offer the President's message, management strategies and business results, as well as stock price information in seven languages. There is a special section that introduces OMRON's business and technologies in an easy-to-understand video.

To further enhance communication with current and potential investors, OMRON conducts a questionnaire survey on the IR sites. OMRON plans to use investors' opinions and comments collected through the survey to refine the IR sites.

As in the previous year, in fiscal 2009, OMRON again was recognized as one of the top 15 companies in the Nikkei Annual Report Awards, organized by Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc.

OMRON's Annual Report 2009 included a dialogue between the President and an outside director, and a development story of the "Smile Scan" system. These feature articles are designed to help investors become more familiar with OMRON management and development frontlines, which earned especially high marks.