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Advantest Publishes Corporate Social Responsibility Report 2008
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TOKYO, Japan, July 25th, 2008 - Advantest Corporation (TSE: 6857, NYSE: ATE), has published its 2008 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report, an annual report on the group's CSR activities in fiscal 2007.
The Advantest Group's CSR Report serves as a tool for communication between the company and its stakeholders. The CSR Report 2008 provides commentary on the range of CSR activities the company undertook over the previous fiscal year, introducing the endeavors from the perspective of each stakeholder group. Advantest is committed to treating all of its stakeholders with respect, and aims to work in harmony with society towards ensuring sustainability. The company seeks to deepen its communicative relationship with stakeholders by making its CSR undertakings public through the Report, and it continually strives to enhance the level of its CSR activities further.
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| Key Features of the CSR Report 2008 |
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Visually Comprehensible with CSR Results Expressed Numerically |
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The company's CSR activities are introduced in separate chapters dedicated to the individual stakeholder groups of customers, suppliers, shareholders and investors, employees, and the local community and environment. For each category, fiscal 2007 CSR projects and their results are depicted in figures, enhancing the Report's visual comprehensibility. Targets for fiscal 2008 are also clearly indicated. |
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Comments from Stakeholders |
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The Report contains even more comments than before from employees directly involved in the company's CSR activities, as well as from the company's various stakeholders. |
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Focus on Next-Generation Personnel Training |
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The Report includes a special feature focusing on how Advantest, as a manufacturing company, is tackling the issue of training personnel for the future. By offering its skills and technical expertise to schemes promoting collaboration between industry and academia, the company is contributing to the development of semiconductor industry personnel. It also holds science craft days for local elementary school children to help incite a greater interest in science among young people, and provides specialist training for its employees, through technical seminars and the handing down of technical knowledge. |
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A PDF version of the CSR Report 2008 may be downloaded from the company's website: http://www.advantest.co.jp/ |
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Copies of the CSR Report 2008 booklet may be requested from Advantest's CSR Management Group: |
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Tel: +81-3-3214-7500Email: csrsuishin@jp.advantest.com. |
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The Japanese version of the Report was published on July 10th. |
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All information supplied in this release is correct at the time of publication, but may be subject to change without warning. |
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Advantest Corporation is the world's leading automatic test equipment supplier to the semiconductor industry, and also produces electronic instruments and systems. A global company, Advantest has long offered total ATE solutions, and serves the industry in every component of semiconductor test: tester, handler, mechanical and electrical interfaces, and software. Its logic, memory, mixed-signal and RF testers and device handlers are integrated into the most advanced semiconductor production lines in the world. Founded in Tokyo in 1954, Advantest established its first subsidiary in 1982, in the USA, and now has subsidiaries worldwide. Among them, Advantest America, Inc. is based in Santa Clara, CA., Advantest (Europe) GmbH is based in Munich, Germany, and Advantest Taiwan Inc. is based in Hsinchu, Taiwan. More information is available at www.advantest.co.jp. |
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