OKI Releases Social Responsibility Report 2007
Tokyo, Japan, December 18, 2007 -- Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. (TSE: 6703) today announced it has released its Social Responsibility Report 2007. The report, posted on OKI's website (http://www.oki.com/en/csr/report/2007), includes OKI Group's fundamental philosophy on CSR (corporate social responsibility) and describes the CSR activities OKI engaged in during the fiscal year ending March 2007.
"I am pleased to release our third Social Responsibility Report, to widely disclose our CSR activities and gain trust and understanding from our stakeholders," said Keiichi Fukumura, Senior Vice President at Oki Electric Industry, who oversees the CSR Promotion Division. "In October 2005, we established 'The OKI Group Charter of Corporate Conduct' for the betterment of corporate value, and put together our first Social Responsibility Report. We have structured this third report into six activity domains, on which we focus. We made efforts to enable readers to easily understand our activities by updating OKI's achievements and including comments from employees around the world."
Following are the highlights from the Social Responsibility Report 2007:
Special Features: Meeting Our CSR Commitment
OKI introduces the following four activities from last fiscal year's activities:
- Creating solutions that bring about the development of an "e-Society", that is full of Ubiquitous Services
- Promoting locally rooted CSR activities in China as a member of the community
- Ongoing support for blood donation programs-a distinctively OKI social contribution activity
- Becoming the world's first mass producer of devices using thin-film bonding technology for dissimilar materials
Status of activities in areas of focus
In this report, OKI explains its activities and achievements in the following six areas of focus: promotion of compliance with laws and regulations; improvement of customer satisfaction; good communication with shareholders and investors; respect for employees; consideration for the environment; and social contribution. Based on the achievements, it comments on areas of focus for the fiscal year ending March 2008 to enable readers to understand OKI's overall direction in CSR through detailed examples.
For the environmental conservation section, which is one of the six themes, this report outlines the activities OKI has undertaken since the company released the OKI Environment Report 2007 in September.
About Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
Founded in 1881, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. is Japan's first telecommunications manufacturer, with its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. OKI provides top-quality products, technologies and solutions to its customers through its info-telecom system business, semiconductor business and printer business. All three businesses function as a collective force to create exciting new products and technologies that satisfy a spectrum of customer needs in various markets. Visit OKI's global web site at http://www.oki.com/.
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