Since the opening of the first AUTOBACS store in 1974, the Company has been striving to contribute to enriching our customers' car life by developing and expanding the AUTOBACS franchise chains comprising AUTOBACS headquarters, the Company's directly operated stores, and its domestic and foreign franchisee stores.
Based on its founding management principle, namely "constantly suggesting the most appropriate car life to each customer and creating a rich and sound motorized society," our Group has been making all-out, concerted efforts to communicate our vision, "Anything about cars, you find at AUTOBACS," thereby winning support and trust from our customers.
In the years ahead, we are determined to develop AUTOBACS franchise chains even further, continuously enhance our corporate governance and investor relations, and ensure greater transparency of our Group's management. These steps, we believe, will contribute toward maximizing profits for all our stakeholders, particularly our shareholders.
In this context, the Company is convinced that the people who make decisions on the Company's financial and business policies must be those who understand the importance of mutual trust among franchisee stores, clients, employees and other parties concerned in the AUTOBACS franchise chains and who are willing and able to improve our medium- and long-term corporate values and shareholders' common profit.