FAQ

The company was established on Oct. 11th, 1943.

Presently, SCREEN Group is developing its operations in the following areas: Semiconductor production equipment business (SPE), Graphic arts equipment business (GA), Display production equipment and coater  business (FT), and PCB-related equipment business (PE). The group has expanded its operations based on its core technologies, namely, surface processing technologies, direct imaging technologies, and image processing technologies.

The company's name, SCREEN, derives from the glass screens that were originally the company's main product. Printed pictures, unlike photographs, are comprised of many extremely small dots. These dot patterns are known as halftones. Halftones used to be created using glass screens engraved finely ruled grid patterns.
The Ishida Kyokuzan Printing Works was the first company to succeed in commercially producing these glass screens in Japan. It established Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd.  in 1943 as a manufacturer of glass screens. The company made further advances with these core technologies and was able to expand further into the graphic arts industry as well as the electronics industry.
And then, aiming for further growth, the company became a holding company, “SCREEN Hodings Co., Ltd.” on October 1, 2014.

History

"Sharing the Future": Earning the trust and meeting the expectations of society, while keeping an eye on the future.
"Human Resource Development": Developing human resource through better work.
"The Pursuit of Technology": Pursuing original technology and mixing it with existing technology.

System of Corporate Philosophy

Yes. Four of eight directors are chosen from outside.

The fiscal year end is March 31.

Please refer to PDF files of Annual Report (issued every year around September).

Please refer to Highlights of our Financial Information. And you can also download PDF files of financial reports from IR Library.

The company's stock code number is 7735.

The administrator of shareholders' register is Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited.

The account management institution of the special account is Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited.​​​​​​​

No.

A reverse share split refers to a procedure wherein multiple shares are consolidated to create a smaller number of shares. In this case, the Company consolidated every five shares into one share.

The change in the number of shares per share unit involves altering the number of shares defined as a minimum unit for the exercise of voting rights at the General Meeting of Shareholders and for trading via stock exchanges. The Company changed the number of shares per share unit from 1,000 to 100. 

The Japanese stock exchanges collectively announced the “Action Plan for Consolidating Trading Units,” which aims to standardize the trading units for common stock issued by all listed domestic corporations at 100 shares, with the plan’s transition period being set to expire on October 1, 2018. 
As a corporation listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the Company respects the objectives of the plan and has thus decided to change the number of shares per share unit, or trading unit, for its stock, from 1,000 shares to 100 shares. In addition, the Company executed a reverse share split, with an eye to realizing the level of investment unit (50,000 yen or more and less than 500,000 yen) that is considered desirable by the stock exchange.

The execution of reverse share split will not change the value of assets and capital held by the Company. Therefore, the asset value of the Company’s shares held by its shareholders will not be affected, unless such value is exposed to changes in stock market conditions or other factors. In fact, although the number of Company shares held by shareholders will decrease to one-fifth of the current number, net assets per share will inversely rise five times with the reverse share split. 
Moreover, the theoretical stock price per share will increase five times with the reverse share split.

With the number of shares held by our shareholders decreasing to one-fifth of the current number through the execution of reverse share split, the Company plans to factor the ratio of the reverse share split (every five shares consolidated into one share) into the calculation of cash dividends per share. Accordingly, the total amount of cash dividends paid to each shareholder will not be affected, unless the Company’s business results fluctuate due to external factors. However, fractional shares of less than one share created through the reverse share split will not be subject to the payment of cash dividends.

Following the execution of the reverse share split, the number of the Company’s shares held by its shareholders will decrease to one-fifth of the number presented in the final shareholders’ register as of September 30, 2016. (Fractional holdings of less than one share will be cut off.) Also, the number of voting rights held by shareholders will be one for every 100 shares following the reverse share split. 
Examples of the number of the Company’s shares and voting rights held by its shareholders before and after the effective date of the reverse share split and change in the number of shares per share unit are presented on the table below.

In cases where fractional shares of less than one share are created through the reverse share split (as in the case (2), (5) and (6) above), the Company will dispose of all such shares and reimburse their proceeds therefrom to the former holders of such fractional shares in amounts proportional to the former holdings of said shareholders. The Company plans to pay these proceeds to shareholders around December 2016. 
As for shareholders who have only four shares (as in the case (6) above) prior to the effective date of reverse share split, their shares will be lost after the reverse share split, as fractional shares are disposed of by the Company. Therefore, those who have four shares or fewer prior to the effective date will lose their status as shareholders. The Company sincerely requests the understanding of such shareholders with regard to this change.

The disposal of fractional shares can be avoided by selling any holdings that could generate fractional shares to the Company or by purchasing additional shares prior to the reverse share split. 
For details regarding these procedures, please inquire your servicing securities firm or the administrator of shareholders’ register designated by the Company.

Even after the execution of reverse share split, shareholders may apply to have such shares purchased by the Company or for the additional purchase of shares to expand their holdings to at least one share unit. 
For details regarding these procedures, please direct your inquiries to the securities brokerage firm with which you deal or the administrator of the shareholders’ register designated by the Company.

For inquiries:
Designated Administrator of the Shareholders’ Register 
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited
Address:
2-8-4 Izumi, Suginami-ku, Tokyo 168-0063
Stock Transfer Agency Business Planning Dept.
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited