DIC Earns Awards from Three Major Japanese IR Website Evaluation Organizations — First triple crown for DIC, reflecting the high marks given for its efforts
to strengthen digital communications —

Tokyo, Japan—DIC Corporation announced today that it has earned top awards in rankings conducted by three major IR website evaluation organizations in Japan. These awards reflect the high marks given to the Company for its efforts to strengthen digital communications with investors and to improve the transparency and convenience of the information it provides.

Awards received
　● AAA grade, overall category, All Japanese Listed Companies’ Website Ranking 2025 (Nikko Investor Relations Co., Ltd.)
　● Commendation Award, Daiwa Internet IR Awards 2025 (Daiwa Investor Relations Co., Ltd.)
　● Bronze Prize, Gomez IR Site Ranking 2025 (BroadBand Security, Inc.)

In recent years, IR websites have become an important platform for companies to convey their corporate value by promoting dialogue with investors and stakeholders. DIC is committed to making its website easy to understand and use, as well as to providing a balance of financial and non-financial disclosure, and to enhancing its provision of sustainability information, and has worked to leverage digital technology and ensure a high level of transparency. These efforts underpinned the Company’s stellar evaluation in all three rankings.

Going forward, DIC will continue working to improve the investor relations and other information it provides via its global website, and to actively communicate with its stakeholders through the timely and appropriate disclosure of quantitative financial and non-financial information.

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● IR page of DIC’s global website: https://www.dic-global.com/en/ir/

● Nikko Investor Relations Co., Ltd.’s All Japanese Listed Companies’ Website Ranking 2025
The Nikko Investor Relations’ All Japanese Listed Companies’ Website Ranking 2025 was compiled from a survey of the websites of 3,937 listed Japanese companies that assessed various factors enabling stakeholders to gather and understand information, based on proprietary objective evaluation criteria from three perspectives: understandability, usability and amount of information provided. The 525 top-ranking companies comprised 201 companies receiving AAA rankings, 153 receiving AA ratings and 171 receiving A ratings.
URL：https://www.nikkoir.co.jp/english

● Daiwa Investor Relations Co., Ltd.’s Daiwa Internet IR Awards 2025
The Daiwa Internet IR Awards 2025 were granted following an examination and evaluation of the IR websites of 4,122 listed companies, based on the concept of "5T&C” (“Timely, Transparent, Traceable, Trustworthy, Total + Communication”), with 158 companies selected as award recipients in recognition of their effective of these websites to disclose information and communicate with stakeholders.
　URL：https://www.daiwair.co.jp/en/

● BroadBand Security Inc.’s Gómez IR Site Ranking 2025
The Gomez IR Site Ranking 2025 evaluated the IR websites of listed companies across four categories: usability, comprehensiveness of financial and business performance information, extensiveness of corporate and management information, and proactiveness and innovation in information disclosure. A total of 389 companies were selected as award recipients, with those scoring 8.0 points or above receiving a Gold Award, those scoring 7.0 points or above receiving a Silver Award and those scoring 6.0 points or above receiving a Bronze Award.
　URL：https://www.gomez.co.jp/ranking/ir/ (Japanese only)

About DIC Corporation
DIC Corporation is one of the world’s leading fine chemicals companies and the core of the DIC Group, a multinational organization comprising over 170 companies, including Sun Chemical Corporation, in more than 60 countries and territories. The DIC Group is recognized as a global leader in the markets for a variety of products essential to modern lifestyles, notably packaging materials, display materials such as those used in television and computer displays, and high-performance materials for smartphones and other digital devices, as well as for automobiles. Through such products, the Group endeavors to deliver safety and peace of mind, and color and comfort, to people everywhere. The DIC Group also seeks to contribute to a sustainable society by developing innovative products that respond to social change and help address social imperatives. With annual consolidated net sales exceeding ¥1 trillion and 21,000-plus employees worldwide, the Group pledges to continue working in close cooperation with its customers wherever they are.
For more information, please visit the DIC global website: https://www.dic-global.com/en/