FAQ

It was established in January 2002 as Pilot Group Holdings Corporation, a pure holding company, through a share transfer jointly by three PILOT Group companies (Pilot Corporation, The Pilot Ink Co., Ltd. and The Pilot Precision Co., Ltd.)

Later, in July 2004, it was merged with PILOT Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary and an operating company, into a holding company and changed the company name to PILOT Corporation, which is its current name.

Our history goes back to the establishment of Namiki Manufacturing Co., Ltd. in January 1918.

The company name was later changed to The Pilot Pen Co., Ltd. in 1938 and to Pilot Corporation in 1989.

The Pilot Ink Co., Ltd. was established in 1950 with its predecessor being Nagoya Ink Plant of The Pilot Pen Co., Ltd.

The Pilot Precision Co., Ltd. was established as The Pilot Kiko Co., Ltd. in 1960, renamed The Pilot Precision Co., Ltd. in 1975, and merged with PILOT Corporation in July 2008.

It comes from the fact that our founders, Ryosuke Namiki and Masao Wada, had been mariners. The name “Pilot” is from a maritime pilot, who guides large vessels.

The PILOT Group engages in the following businesses by applying technologies derived from manufacturing writing instruments.

• Recycled toner business
  We currently provide a service of recycling toner cartridges of laser printers and facsimiles developed from printer ink ribbons, to which we applied ink technologies.
• Ceramics business
  Our technologies for manufacturing mechanical pencil lead have been recognized, and our ceramics are used for the structural parts of sensors for various purposes and for medical functional components using microporous ceramics, such as control components that determine the liquid flow rate.
• Jewelry business
  We manufacture and sell wedding rings and other jewelry goods by applying the gold alloy processing technology used for fountain pen tips.
• Toy business
  We manufacture educational toys, including the Mellchan series of hug me dolls that are very popular with young girls.
  The ink technology used for the hair of Mellchan, whose color changes when you give her a bath, has been applied to the FRIXION series of writing instruments featuring erasable ink.
  Further, “Suisui-Oekaki” features the use of ink that becomes transparent and makes the background color visible when it is wet, while it is opaque and hides the background color in a dry state. This product is highly acclaimed overseas as “AQUA DOODLE” and has received many awards in each country.

Please refer to the Sustainability pages.

Please see the Earnings Highlights in Financial Information or Financial Results & Presentation Materials in IR Library..

It ends on December 31.

Schedules for the announcement of quarterly financial results and the General Meeting of Shareholders are available on the IR Schedule page.

Yes, we hold briefings after announcing the interim financial results and year-end financial results, respectively.

The information, including historical financial results, is available on our website.

Timely disclosure documents, Consolidated Financial Results, Annual Securities Reports (Japanese text only), Business Report (Interim Report) for shareholders, and other documents are available as PDF files on the IR News and IR Library pages.

We also disclose our quarterly financial results (consolidated and non-consolidated) on the Earnings Highlights page using graphs and tables.

For details, please refer to Financial Information or IR Library.

Please refer to Financial Results & Presentation Materials in IR Information.

Please see Annual Securities Report (Japanese text only) in IR Information.

You need to buy the shares by three business days before the record date for each.

Please ask your securities company for details.

The Company is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market.

In January 2002, when the Company was established, it was listed on the First Section (currently the Prime Market) of Tokyo Stock Exchange and the First Section of Osaka Securities Exchange.

In fact, the Company was originally listed in 1961, when The Pilot Pen Co., Ltd. was listed on the Second Section of Tokyo Stock Exchange.

In 1962, the Company was alternatively listed on the First Section of Tokyo Stock Exchange, and at the same time, listed on the First Section of Osaka Securities Exchange.

Later, Pilot Corporation (its name changed from The Pilot Pen Co., Ltd. in 1989), which had become a wholly owned subsidiary as a result of the transition to a holding company system through share transfer, was delisted in December 2001.

*The Company was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and Osaka Securities Exchange. However, because Osaka Securities Exchange was integrated into Tokyo Stock Exchange effective on July 16, 2013, the Company is listed only on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

It is 7846.

It is 100 shares.

Reflecting the resolution passed at the Board of Directors' meeting held on February 22, 2013, the Company implemented a 100-for-1 share split, adopted a share trading unit system, and changed its Articles of Incorporation so that the share trading unit would be 100 shares, with the effective date being Monday, July 1, 2013.

As a result of the above, the trading unit of the Company's shares at Tokyo Stock Exchange was changed from 1 share to 100 shares effective on Wednesday, June 26, 2013.

It is June 30 every year for interim dividend and December 31 every year for year-end dividend.

For dividends we paid in the past, see the Dividends/Dividend Payout Ratio page of Stock Information.

We pay an interim dividend in early September to shareholders recorded as of June 30 and pay a year-end dividend after the General Meeting of Shareholders in March to shareholders recorded as of December 31.

We implemented a 2-for-1 share split effective on July 1, 2015.

It is miscellaneous manufacturing industries.

We post public notices electronically at our website (https://corp.pilot.co.jp/ir/publicnotice/). (External links are displayed in separate windows.)

However, if we are unable to issue our public notices electronically due to an accident or other unavoidable reasons, we will issue them in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun.

Please refer to the Corporate Governance page of Sustainability.