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Reports on Activities ICT, General Products & Realty Company We will draw on our comprehensive capabilities and global network to provide high value added to a wide range of customers, in both industrial and consumer markets.

CSR at the ICT, General Products & Realty Company Raising environmental awareness and contributing to the development of CSR Action Plans: Key points of our fi scal 2013 action plans prosperous communities and societies As part of our environmentally friendly business efforts, we will trade internationally certifi ed forest products and promote the development of solar power generation Through the provision of environmentally friendly products systems and other highly functional, environmentally friendly housing and social and services as well as products and solutions that infrastructure. At the same time, we will step up our supply chain management efforts. In addition, we will utilize information technologies to develop creative help realize more prosperous societies by responding to energy management solutions businesses, smart infrastructure businesses, retail regional and social needs, we will contribute to advancing fi nance businesses in Asia and Europe, and other businesses that contribute to the development of regional communities and the interna- the realization of prosperous societies by addressing social needs. tional society as a whole while also supporting safe and For details, please visit the following website: affl uent lifestyles. http://www.itochu.co.jp/en/csr/activities/actionplan/#action06

Business Areas

Forest Products & ICT, Insurance & Construction, Realty & General Merchandise Division Logistics Division Financial Business Division The building products & In ICT, the division is involved In , this division is active materials business has a strong in IT and Internet-related in the REIT-related business, presence in Japan and the services as well as mobile centered on Advance Resi- , while the pulp phone distribution and value- dence Investment Corporation and paper business has leading added after-sales services. In (ADR), Japan’s largest residen- market positions based on its insurance and logistics, the tial J-REIT; housing and logistics global sales network and cost competitiveness. division is taking steps to strengthen its busi- facility development; and fi nancial services. In The natural rubber business in Southeast Asia nesses, centered on and Asia, including addition, the division is aggressively developing is among the largest of any general trading reinsurance brokerage and international logistics. overseas business, especially in China and company, and the tyre business has built a global The division is also aggressively developing new Asia. In the future, the division will advance new sales network. In these ways, the division has businesses and pursuing synergies through businesses through the integration of the fi nance established strong, highly competitive global cooperation among business areas. and real estate development functions. value chains.

Contributing to Society and the Environment through Our Businesses

Developing Business of Energy and Karawang Industrial Park Aims for Smart IT Infrastructure Utilizing IT Harmony with Indonesian Society

Under the brand Karawang Industrial Park (KIIC, development area 1,177 hect- eco-FORTE, ITOCHU ares), which ITOCHU has invested in and operated from 1992, is developing business is working jointly with tenant companies to aggressively conduct of energy and smart IT CSR activities with an aim of co-existence and co-prosperity infrastructure utilizing with neighboring communities. In addition to direct support such IT. Drawing on IT, as supplying baby food to infants in neighboring villages and we are providing integrated solutions for measurement and providing scholarships to junior and senior high school students, control of energy consumption in air conditioning and lighting an agricultural park has been established within the industrial equipment. For example, we are participating in the Integrated park with the cooperation of Bogor Agricultural University, with Information Management Platform Project under the “Akita programs conducted to instruct local farmers in the cultivation Smart City Project.” We are also providing management and of high-value-added vegetables and catfi sh farming, as well control solutions for outdoor street lighting. Under the Ministry as environmental improvement. In addition, more than 10,000 of the Environment’s “2011 Challenge 25 Regional Develop- seedlings are grown in the agricultural park’s nursery and ment Project,” we introduced these solutions in Tsukuba City planted in the grounds of in cooperation with Iwasaki Electric Co., Ltd. and the industrial park or in Corporation. Moving forward, we will continue to implement neighboring villages. We initiatives in the area of energy and smart IT infrastructure are working to operate utilizing IT. the industrial park with close ties to neighboring communities.

Karawang Industrial Park

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