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Acquired Majority Stake in MOBOTIX (Germany)

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Finally, we have acquired 65.5% of the shares in MOBOTIX, a surveillance camera manufacturer in Germany. Our aim is to acquire the technology with which to create new businesses.
This was also brought up by President Yamana at the Mid Term Business Strategy Briefing held in April. MOBOTIX possesses some extremely original technology. In our opinion, fusing their technology with ours would enable us to accelerate the commercialization of solutions for resolving social issues in ways that can be anticipated to have major market potential.
A number of solution themes are introduced here. We consider every one of them to be a significant business opportunity. Care support solutions have already begun to be installed at several companies' nursing care facilities