ASICS Recieves the Best IR Award and the Kyokan! IR Award for the Second Consecutive Year at the 2024 IR Prime Business Award

ASICS Corporation has received the “Best IR Award” and the “KYOKAN! IR Award” (“Most Liked!” IR Award) at the 2024 IR Prime Business Award presented by the Japan Investor Relations Association. This is the second consecutive year ASICS has received both awards.

The IR Prime Business Award program is aimed at commending companies for being strongly committed to IR activities based on a profound understanding of the objectives thereof and having achieved outstanding outcomes, such as gaining great support from market participants. ASICS was selected for the Best IR Award for the following reasons according to the Japan Investor Relations Association:

・The management team openly discusses strategies and forecasts
・The company’s responses to items that investors value are clear, and its explanations, which are accompanied by specific figures, are persuasive
・The CFO engages in dialogue from the investor’s perspective, and mutual understanding is deepening
・The themes of dialogue are wide-ranging, from structural reform and growth strategies to corporate governance and brands
・The IR department is setting up many opportunities for dialogue and is also working to improve the content
・The company holds events such as Investment Day and produces materials and earnings reports from an investor’s perspective that are easy to understand
 

Meanwhile, the Kyokan! IR Award (“Most Liked!” IR Award) was newly established in 2020 to share the energetic IR activities of IR Prime Business Award applicants and scale out the best practices. This award goes to companies selected through a mutual vote among IR Prime Business Award applicants. This year, Kyokan! IR Award winners were selected with a focus on efforts to shorten the distance between management and investors.

We will continue to work on IR activities that are unique to ASICS. We will be focusing more than ever on IR measures for individual investors, in light of the fact that the number of individual shareholders has increased significantly with the stock split and secondary offering conducted this year, and further improve our corporate value.


〇IR Prime Business Award information the Japan Investor Relations Association website

https://www.jira.or.jp/english/news.html

〇IR information on ASICS website

https://corp.asics.com/en/investor_relations