Evaluation by External Entities

BIL has been selected for the "MSCI Japan ESG Select Leaders Index," an investment index that selects Japanese companies with superior ESG measures since 2023.

The MSCI Japan ESG Select Leaders Index is one of the ESG investment indexes adopted by GPIF, the largest pension management institution in the world.

DISCLAIMER
THE INCLUSION OF BROTHER INDUSTRIES, LTD. IN ANY MSCI INDEX, AND THE USE OF MSCI LOGOS, TRADEMARKS, SERVICE MARKS OR INDEX NAMES HEREIN, DO NOT CONSTITUTE A SPONSORSHIP, ENDORSEMENT OR PROMOTION OF BROTHER INDUSTRIES, LTD. BY MSCI OR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES. THE MSCI INDEXES ARE THE EXCLUSIVE PROPERTY OF MSCI. MSCI AND THE MSCI INDEX NAMES AND LOGOS ARE TRADEMARKS OR SERVICE MARKS OF MSCI OR ITS AFFILIATES.

Since 2019, BIL has been included in the ESG investment stock index "MSCI Japan Empowering Women (WIN) Select Index" calculated and provided by Morgan Stanley Capital International Inc. (MSCI) of the United States.

The MSCI Japan Empowering Women (WIN) Select Index consists of leading companies that are actively promoting and advancing women in the workplace. Selection is based on corporate disclosures and on ratios of female employees and managers and other data in the Database on Promotion of Women's Participation and Advancement in the Workplace^*, which is a database of gender diversity according to the Act on the Promotion of Female Participation and Career Advancement in the Workplace.
The inclusion of BIL in this index, which was adopted by Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), is evidence that its various initiatives to date are held in high regard. They include support for diverse work styles, formulation of the "Commitment to Promotion of the Success of Women" and the "Action Plan to Support the Success of Women," and various systems and measures for promoting women in the workplace.

• Click to view the Database on Promotion of Women's Participation and Advancement in the Workplace(the link to the site of Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare)

DISCLAIMER
THE INCLUSION OF BROTHER INDUSTRIES, LTD. IN ANY MSCI INDEX, AND THE USE OF MSCI LOGOS, TRADEMARKS, SERVICE MARKS OR INDEX NAMES HEREIN, DO NOT CONSTITUTE A SPONSORSHIP, ENDORSEMENT OR PROMOTION OF BROTHER INDUSTRIES, LTD. BY MSCI OR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES. THE MSCI INDEXES ARE THE EXCLUSIVE PROPERTY OF MSCI. MSCI AND THE MSCI INDEX NAMES AND LOGOS ARE TRADEMARKS OR SERVICE MARKS OF MSCI OR ITS AFFILIATES.

BIL has been selected for the "Morningstar Japan ex-REIT Gender Diversity Tilt Index," an ESG index developed by Morningstar, Inc. in the United States.

The Morningstar Japan ex-REIT Gender Diversity Tilt Index is an index that focuses on companies that have strong gender diversity policies embedded in their corporate culture and that ensure equal opportunities to employees, irrespective of their gender. It is adopted as an ESG investment index by the GPIF.

BIL has been selected for inclusion in "S&P/JPX Carbon Efficient Index"—a stock index by S&P Dow Jones Indices LCC and Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc. focusing on the environmental aspect of ESG—since 2018.

Selecting its constituents from companies in the Tokyo Stock Price Index (TOPIX), which is a leading stock index that represents the trend of Japan's market, the S&P/JPX Carbon Efficient Index is an index that focuses on the disclosure of environmental information and level of carbon efficiency (carbon emissions per unit of revenue) when determining the ratio of its constituents. It has been adopted by the Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) as a global environmental stock index from among ESG indices.

The medium-term target for FY2030 under Reduction of CO₂ emissions in the Brother Group Environmental Vision 2050 has been certified by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi^*1) as 1.5°C target based on scientific evidence.

The medium-term target for FY2030 was certified as a 2°C target in July 2018, and following the achievement of Scope 1^*2,2^*3targets in FY2020, this target was revised upward and certified as a 1.5°C target in April 2022.

1. SBTi is an international initiative established to promote the achievement of greenhouse gas emission reduction targets.
2. Direct greenhouse gas emissions by businesses themselves
3. Indirect emissions from the use of electricity, heat, and steam supplied by others

• Brother Group Environmental Vision 2050

• Greenhouse gas emissions per unit of economic activity

BIL was selected by Clarivate, a global information services firm in the United Kingdom, for "Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovators 2023" as one of the 100 companies positioned at the top of the global innovation ecosystem. This marks the fifth time that BIL has received this award since its first time in 2012.

Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovators 2023 is a list of the world's top 100 innovative companies and institutions, which are selected once annually based on patent data that Clarivate holds. In the selection, five factors of registered patents were used for score calculation: influence, success, globalization, and technical distinctiveness, in addition to quantity. Among these factors, Brother achieved a particularly high score for "success", which led to this award.