Message from the President & CEO

In May 2025, we announced our medium-term management plan. This plan clearly states that all employees will work to restore Sharp’s unique identity, based on the company’s founding spirit articulated in its business philosophy and business creed.

The phrase “we are dedicated to the use of our unique, innovative technology to contribute to the culture, benefit, and welfare of people throughout the world,” stated in our business philosophy, succinctly expresses our commitment to sustainability.

Today, the global community faces various challenges in its pursuit of sustainability. Examples include achieving carbon neutrality, using limited natural resources effectively, addressing medical and nursing care problems, and dealing with labor shortages. And as people’s values become ever more diverse, there is a growing demand for products and services that cater to individual lifestyles and work styles.

Our mission is to confront these challenges and needs head-on and resolve them through sincerity and our unique, innovative technologies.
In our businesses and products, as outlined in our medium-term management plan, we will harness cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence, next-generation communications, and robotics to create new value that will help resolve society’s problems. Our focus here will be on the home and office domains in which we have long excelled. We will also boldly venture into rapidly growing new fields of industry, such as EV ecosystems. In this way, we will help improve people’s lives and contribute to a better future for all.

With our environmental initiatives, we are steadily advancing our efforts based on our long-term environmental vision, Sharp Eco Vision 2050. To address climate change, we are aiming to achieve net zero* CO₂ emissions from our business activities by 2030—and from our entire supply chain by 2050. In February 2025, we joined the RE100 global initiative, which aims to have businesses use 100% renewable electricity. This shows our clear commitment toward net zero emissions. Regarding the circular economy, we are accelerating the use of recycled materials in our products and packaging materials.

An essential part of our sustainability efforts involves supporting the social inclusion of people with disabilities. I mentioned Sharp’s founding spirit at the beginning of this message. In line with that spirit, our founder established a special subsidiary in 1950 called Sharp Tokusen Industry Co. Its goal is to promote the social and economic participation and employment of people with disabilities. Drawing on our founder’s commitment to supporting disabled individuals, we help them foster independence and a sense of purpose in the workplace. We will continue to engage in social action programs that contribute to people’s welfare.

Sharp signed the United Nations Global Compact in 2009. We continue to support this framework’s 10 principles in the areas of human rights, labor, the environment, and anti-corruption. Our support comes in the form of fulfilling corporate responsibilities to solve worldwide problems through actions like human rights due diligence.

Although we have implemented various structural reforms, our founding spirit—our business philosophy and business creed—remain unchanged. Looking ahead, we will uphold our founding spirit as our guiding principles and strive to contribute to bringing about a sustainable society in a way that reflects Sharp’s unique approach.

September 2025