Founder Michio Suzuki built a loom out of a desire to make his mother's job easier, then launched the family business by allowing others around him to use it. That business grew to encompass the motorcycles, automobiles, and marine products businesses. In order to provide optimal products and services focused on customers around the world, Suzuki has always worked to stay connected to customers and convey to them the passion we put into our products, thereby enhancing Suzuki’s value and ensuring customers continue to choose Suzuki products.

While expanding into the mobility sector, we have remained committed to the philosophy of “Sho-Sho-Kei-Tan-Bi (Smaller, Fewer, Lighter, Shorter, Beauty)” by creating vehicles that are just the right size for transportation, that are lightweight and fuel efficient, and that are safe and fully equipped with the features that people truly need. In other words, we have been creating safe and small vehicles that require minimal energy.

Suzuki chooses a “multi-pathway” direction to transform into a more sustainable company while focusing more on customers. We aim to achieve carbon neutrality by combining BEVs, HEVs, CNG/CBG vehicles, and FFVs as best-suited to regional communities and lifestyles. We will continue striving to bring our limited resources to the next generation.

In addition, in order to sustainably grow together with our customers, shareholders, business partners, employees, communities, and all other stakeholders based on a foundation of suitable governance, we will earnestly tackle not only environmental measures but also human rights and all of society's many other demands as well.

Our corporate slogan “By Your Side,” recently announced in the Mid-Term Management Plan, is a straightforward expression of Suzuki's founding spirit, Mission Statement, and Philosophy of Conduct. To remain focused and dependable for our customers and society, we are not only extending our conventional businesses and updating our traditional ways of doing business, we are also taking on new initiatives, taking on the challenge of discontinuity, and growing both as a company and as individuals. Moving forward, we aim for “an infrastructure mobility closely connected with people’s lives.”

I hope that our stakeholders keep a close eye on our activities and, as Suzuki fans, that they look ahead with excitement for what lies ahead for Suzuki.