Current Management Priority Issues and Business Strategy

from the beginning

Current Management Priority Issues and Business Strategy

• Contents

Overview of FY2013 Performance

• FY2013 First Half Results

• Outlook for FY2013

Overview of Corporate Business Plan FY2013 - FY2015

• Priority Management Issues & Business Strategy Since the Beginning of the Century

• Where We Have Been Heading

• Performance Targets

• Cash Flow Targets

Progress on Corporate Business Plan

Restructure Businesses

• Restructure Businesses

• Characteristics by Business Area

• Restructure Businesses：Expand specialty chemicals business

• Three Specialty Chemicals Business Sectors

• IT-related Chemicals Sector

• Expand Sales of Polarizing Films for Small- And Medium- Sized Displays

• Develop Touchscreen Panel Business

• Health & Crop Sciences Sector

• Expand Sales of Flumioxazin Herbicide

• Expand Crop Sciences Business into Downstream and Related Areas

• Expand into Niche Areas(Plant Growth Regulators and Biological Pesticides)

• Pipeline of New Crop Protection Chemicals

• Pharmaceuticals Sector

• LATUDA:Obtained approval for additional indications for bipolar I disorder

• Develop Anti-cancer Stem Cell Drugs

• Restructure Businesses: Restructure bulk chemicals business

• Global Petrochemical Operations

• Restructuring of Chiba Works:Shut down ethylene plant and procure ethylene from Keiyo Ethylene

• Restructuring of Chiba Works:Downsize/exit underperforming businesses

• Petrochemical Business in Japan after Restructuring

• Efforts to Achieve More Stable Operations at Petro Rabigh

• Restructure Core Businesses of Basic Chemicals Sector

• Business Restructuring (Downsize/exit underperforming businesses)

• Become a More Resilient Sumitomo Chemical through Business Restructuring

Enhance Financial Strength

• Enhance Financial Strength

• Initiatives to Improve Profitability

• Initiatives to Rigorously Select Investments

• CCC Improvement Initiatives

• Cash Flow Projections

• Interest-Bearing Liabilities and D/E Ratio

Develop Next-Generation Businesses

• Develop Next-Generation Businesses

• Development of Next-Generation Flexible Display Material and Component Business

Promote Globally Integrated Management

• Promote Globally Integrated Management

Ensure Full and Strict Compliance and Maintain Safe and Stable Operations

• Ensure Full and Strict Compliance and Maintain Safe and Stable Operations

Shareholder Return

• Performance Targets

• Dividend Policy

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