Nomura Investor Relations Co., Ltd. (NIR) is one of Japan's leading IR consulting firms, offering comprehensive strategies and tools for corporate clients' investor relations activities. Specifically, we provide strategy consulting, action plans, and market perception studies to help companies improve communication with investors. In addition, we produce annual reports, financial fact books, videos, and internet-ready broadcast materials, as well as help companies arrange meetings and conference calls with institutional investors and analysts.

Since being established in 1990, we have provided both institutional and individual investors valuable information in our quarterly "IR Magazine." Full of a wide range of corporate news and reports, "IR Magazine" circulation has reached 50,000. In addition, we utilize surveys to track investors' needs and interests, and compile results into an investor database. In April 2000, we opened a portal site to deliver audio/video footage of shareholders' and analysts' meetings. The site now offers more than 1,000 different IR-related events and announcements by 400 companies over the internet to individual investors.