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CORPORATE OUTLINE Company Name KIMURA UNITY CO., LTD. URL http://www.kimura-unity.co.jp/en/ Head Ofce Address 3-8-32, Nishiki, Naka-ku, Nagoya, Capital 3.58 billion yen Aichi 460-0003, Japan Fiscal Year-End March 31 Telephone +81-52-962-7051 Stock Exchange Listings Tokyo Stock Exchange First Section President and Representative Director Shoji Kimura Nagoya Stock Exchange First Section Date of Establishment October 1, 1973 Securities Code 9368 Management Philosophy Management Guidelines 1. Create customer value The Company exists for the 2. Strengthen profitable foundations 3. Enhance organizational performance customers and prospers together with motivated personnel alongside our employees. 4. Maintain our actions and commitment to sustain an eco-friendly environment and fulfill our corporate social responsibility Shoji Kimura President and Representative Director Since its founding, Kimura Unity has been dedicated to providing top-quality Bringing value to customers through our four services services to customers as an outstanding corporate citizen, and to maintaining Offering new value created from integrated services top-of-the-line workplaces with first-rate teams of employees. Logistics Services Total Car Services The Kimura Unity Group has engaged in business with the philosophy that our company exists for the Providing services to optimize Offering comprehensive customers and prospers together alongside our employees. Placing a high premium on “to create logistics with an emphasis on services to help customers “Standardization”, cut costs and improve vehicle customer value” and “to enhance motivated personnel performance,” we have developed ourselves LLogisticsS Services TCTotal Car ServicesS “Continuous Improvement”, maintenance quality and extensively in the integrated services consisting of four areas, “Logistics Services,” “Total Car Services,” “IT-based Logistics” safety so that they can Information Services,” and “Staffing Services” in both domestic and overseas markets. become enriched in their car-oriented lifestyle As the world becomes increasingly globalized and borderless, the speeds of changes in the marketplace as well as competitive business environments have been accelerated. To become “a company of choice by our customer,” we are maximizing our Group’s competitive advantages in our daily efforts to create new value and pioneering services that exceed customer expectations. We strive to be a company where employees are fulfilled in their work and feel fully enriched with the spirit of teamwork, making our workplace environment even more dynamic so that all team members are Information Services Staffing Services motivated to satisfy customers by working together to provide genuine and friendly services. Drawing on expertise in Providing tailored services Through its business activities, Kimura Unity is committed to boosting its corporate value and strengthening logistics acquired over many for supporting corporate years to offer diverse management with relations of mutual trust with stakeholders. On this basis, we intend to continue building on these relations SStafngS Services IInformationS Services solutions through consulting, multifaceted human with a forward-looking stance so that we can contribute to the development of the world community. system development, and resources strategies for We would appreciate your continued support and cooperation. system maintenance services customer needs KIMURA KIMURA 01 UNITY UNITY 02 Kimura Unity’s employees have continuously taken on challenges Since its founding in 1881, Kimura Unity has grown in tandem with the automotive industry while operating its Logistics Services, Total Car Services, Information Services, and Stafng Services businesses. Based on the expertise it accumulated by providing services to customers in Japan, Kimura and made improvements over the Company’s history. Unity expanded to other countries and broadened the scope of its businesses, including logistics services for a wide range of industries, in accordance with the increasingly diverse and sophisticated needs of customers. The Company navigated numerous turning points in the course of its long history, Kimura Unity will maintain its commitment to pursuing the best but forged ahead without ever forgetting its basic founding principle of “customer focus.” Kimura Unity is committed to evolving further in the years services for customers as it continues to evolve. ahead to provide genuine value to customers and end-users. 21st CENTURY LogisticsLS Services TCTotal Car ServicesS InformationIS Services SStafng ServicesS Being proactive for the next generation March 2013 Established solar power facilities and began selling electric power September 2006 Listed on the First Section of the Tokyo and Nagoya stock exchanges B-B B-C Toyota-Related New Logistics Support for Support for Human April 2002 Established Business People Co., Ltd., as a consolidated subsidiary Overseas Operations (For Corporate Customers) (For Consumer) Businesses Services Businesses Car Management Services Car Life Services IT Strategies Resources Strategies October 2001 Listed on the Second Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange Opened the Kansai Sales Ofce Acquired ISO 27001 2016 information management Opened the Kanto Sales Ofce Split off the transport business Finished redeveloping Made SUPER JUMBO system certication of the joint venture in Thailand, the Inazawa Plant CORPORATION 2014 2013 and established TTK Asia 2013 2013 into a consolidated subsidiary by the Information Transport (Thailand) Co., Ltd., Finished redeveloping Services Department as a new joint venture rm the Inuyama Plant Reopened Auto Plaza Rabbit Inazawa Head Center 2010 Began logistics services after renovation th CENTURY for Internet mail-order products Finished redeveloping Began offering integrated 2008 the Toyota Plant 2008 car management services 20 Established Guangzhou Guangqi Kimura Shinwa Store Initiated full scale expansion overseas Co., Ltd., as a consolidated subsidiary in Guangzhou, China Absorbed Kimura Reopened Auto Plaza Rabbit Launched the New Logistics Services Business targeting Established Tianjin Kimura 2006 Began logistics services 2006 Lease Services Co., Ltd. 2006 Nagoya-kita Branch Shinwa Logistics Co., Ltd., for medical products by merger after renovation new markets outside of the automotive industry 2005 as a consolidated subsidiary in Tianjin, China December 2000 Formed a business partnership with Toyota Tsusho Corporation Integrated the forwarding business Established TK Logistica de into U-netrans Co., Ltd. 2004 Mexico S. de R.L. de C.V. 2004 Began logistics services Met yet another challenge for enhanced corporate value, as a joint venture in Mexico for ceramic products Made Kimura Lease Began logistics services Services Co., Ltd. (former listed as a public company 2003 for electrical equipment 2003 Suzuken Seibi Co., Ltd.) into Established TTK Logistics an owned subsidiary company Began the temporary March 1995 Listed on the Second Section of the Nagoya Stock Exchange (Thailand) Co., Ltd. as a joint Began offering system 2002 2002 2002 maintenance services 2002 stafng business venture in Thailand Began logistics services April 1991 Consolidated eight group companies for apparel products Established Kimura Inc. 2001 2001 November 1990 Renamed to Kimura Unity Co., Ltd. as a consolidated subsidiary in the United States Began logistics services for stationery products Opened Auto Plaza Rabbit Inazawa Head Center Established TK Logistica Introduced the Toyota Production System and strengthened do Brasil Ltda. as a 1997 Began the car accessory human resources training and education joint venture in Brazil sales business October 1973 Kimura Unity was established 1994 Began the parking lot business July 1969 Split off eight group companies 1987 Began contracting home builders Began developing systems 1978 1976 for overseas subsidiaries and afliates Entered the automotive industry in anticipation of mass expansion of motorization Began the used-car sales business May 1958 Established Toyopet Service Shop 1973 Began the vehicle leasing business Shifted from private management to corporate management 1971 Began the information services business March 1951 Established Kimura Manufacturing Limited Partnership Company 1967 Began the trafc safety services business Began the packaging business 1959 Began the forwarding business Began the insurance agency business 1958 19 th CENTURY Began the vehicle maintenance business Manufactured and sold wooden containers while growing alongside the local textile industry Began the container equipment 1881 and product business Kimura Unity conducts business activities in the center of Nagoya City, deeply rooted in the local area. January 1881 Founded the Kimura Container Manufacturing Shop in Naka-ku, Nagoya, Aichi The current head ofce building, completed in February 1993, performs integral functions and provides support for each of the Company’s businesses. KIMURA KIMURA 03 UNITY UNITY 04 Kimura Unity optimizes all aspects of logistics through dedicated teamwork. Kimura Unity provides professional services focused on “Standardization” based on the Toyota Production System, LS “Continuous Improvement,” and “IT-based Logistics.” Logistics Services When receiving an order for distribution center operations from a customer, we organize a project team comprised not only of onsite operators and staff members of the Sales Department, but also members of the Logistics Engineering Department and the