Shuji Maeda President and Representative Director

Allow me to begin by expressing my sincerest sympathy to everyone who has been affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake and my prayers for the earliest possible recovery for the damaged areas.

Since its establishment in 1962, the SECOM Group, a pioneer in Japan's security services industry, has sought to contribute to a safe society by developing innovative security services and systems. Beginning with Japan's first on-line commercial security system, we have sought to keep abreast of social trends, patterns of criminal activity and technological advances by developing and marketing security products, services and systems. These range from SECOM Home Security — an on-line home security system that celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2011— to COCO-SECOM, a mobile personal security system for outdoor use. To this end, we have drawn on our 48 years of experience in the security field, and on our wealth of proprietary technologies and professional capabilities, to develop advanced systems.

In line with our corporate message —"Providing reliable peace of mind"— we are working to realize our vision for the future, the Social System Industry, which describes a framework of distinctive, integrated products and services that make life more secure, convenient and comfortable. To this end, we are capitalizing on our broad business portfolio, which has expanded beyond security services to encompass fire protection services, medical services, insurance services, geographic information services, real estate development and sales, and information and communication related and other services. In these businesses, we strive not only to provide individual products and services, but also to combine them into unique packages.

With the aim of rallying Group strengths and maximizing synergies to realize our Social System Industry vision and to accelerate growth, we recently declared a new Group slogan, "ALL SECOM."

In Japan, economic and political uncertainty in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake is expected to cause heightened social unease. In response, we will continue to focus on providing products, services and systems that ensure safety and security, thus encouraging people to turn to SECOM with the confidence that doing so will help resolve security and other issues.