Sumitomo Corporation will celebrate its centennial anniversary in fiscal 2019.
With this major milestone on the horizon, we have set out the Sumitomo Corporation Group's medium-to-long-term vision in "What We Aim to Be in 2019." By realizing this vision, we aim to lay a solid foundation for stable, continuous growth over the next 50 years, 100 years, and beyond following this centennial.

This medium-term management plan for fiscal 2013 and 2014 (April 2013 through March 2015) covers the first two years of our journey to achieve our vision of what we aim to be. We have positioned the two years covered by this plan as the stage for advancing to an even higher level of profit growth. By thoroughly enhancing our earning power and strengthening the management base that supports it, we will construct a solid earnings base while maintaining financial soundness.

The Sumitomo Group's growth has long been underpinned by Sumitomo's Business Philosophy, which has been passed down, maintained and followed faithfully for more than 400 years since the Group's founding.
Relying on this Business Philosophy and the Corporate Mission Statement stemming from it as a touchstone to the value judgments, the Sumitomo Corporation Group has maintained a basic policy of aiming for "earnings expansion" while maintaining "management stability."
Such an approach to business is also firmly affixed in our BBBO2014 medium-term management plan.