HPAIR 2005 Sponsors

Daiwa Securities Group Inc.and its related companies, 46 consolidated subsidiaries and 5 affiliates predominantly operate in investing and financial segment, focusing on securities businesses such as trading and brokerage of securities and derivatives, underwriting of securities, distribution of securities, private offering of securities and other business related to securities and financial fields. The Group provides wide range of services, satisfying the worldwide customer needs for raising and investing of funds through the global networks linking major financial markets in Japan, America, Europe and Asia and Oceania.

Daiwa aims to become Japan's strongest securities group and maximize group corporate value, by developing its securities related businesses by utilizing the holding company structure and concentrating group management resources on securities related businesses.

DaimlerChrysler is one of the leading automotive companies worldwide. Its passenger car brands include Maybach, Mercedes-Benz, Chrysler, Jeep(R), Dodge and smart. Its commercial vehicle brands include Mercedes-Benz, Freightliner, Sterling, Setra and Western Star. DaimlerChrysler Services provides financial and automotive related services. DaimlerChrysler has production facilities in 17 countries and sells its products in more than 200 countries.

Corporate headquarters in Stuttgart-Moehringen, Germany, and Auburn Hills, U.S.A. Locations and business units in more than 170 countries throughout the world.

Mori Building Company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and has been the leader in creating cutting-edge, multi-use urban developments. Mori is Japan's largest commercial urban developer and real estate operator. The company was founded in 1959 and currently includes urban development and the planning, design supervision, operation and management of office, residential, commercial, hotel and other cultural and entertainment facilities under its scope of business. The company operates more than one hundred office buildings in Japan along with two thousand housing units and high-profile shopping centers.

Asia's biggest airline group, Japan Airlines is the sixth largestairline group in the world in terms of traffic performance and capacity and ranks third in the world in terms of total sales revenues. Top quality in-flight service has always been the hall-mark of JAL's reputation.  Fully reclining Sky Sleeper seats in First Class and JAL's business-class service now come with personal video systems and inflight internet access add to the JAL experience.

Bayer MaterialScience is a Bayer Group company. With sales of EUR 8.6 billion in 2004, it is a leading manufacturer of high-tech materials and innovative system solutions used in products found in many areas of everyday life. The majority of sales today are generated by products holding leading positions in the world market. Industries served include automotive manufacturing and supply, electrical engineering and electronics, construction and home products, and sports and leisure. Bayer MaterialScience has 40 production sites around the globe and employs some 17,900 people.

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu is an organization of member firms with access to the deep intellectual capital of 120,000 people and serves clients in nearly 150 countires. Deloitte delivers services in four professional areas-audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services-and serves more than one-half of the world's largest companies as well as large national enterprises, public institutions, locally important clients, and successful, fast-growing global growth companies. In Japan, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu is known as Tohmastu, one of the nation's leading accounting firm, providing services through more than 3,000 people in nearly 40 cities. As a core member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Tohmatsu engages in the global management strategies, and provides high quality services to Japanse clients all over the world.

Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) is Japan's largest general trading company with over 200 bases of operation in Japan and approximately 80 other countries worldwide. Together with our more than 500 Group companies, they serve customers around the world in virtually every industry, from energy, metals and machinery to chemicals, food and general merchandise.