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Nippon Electric Glass (investor statement

Japanese corporate IR (non-editorial)

Owned byNippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd. (NEG) is a publicly traded Japanese corporation listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (ticker: 5214) and included in the Nikkei 225 index. As of 2023, shares are held broadly by individual investors (~40.7%), institutional investors (~17%), and treasury stock (~1.2%), with no single controlling shareholder. The company originated as a spinoff from NEC Corporation in 1949 but has operated independently ever since.

FundingFunded entirely through commercial operations — the sale of specialty glass products (flat panel display glass, glass fiber, heat-resistant glass, and related materials). Investor statements are corporate disclosures produced at company expense as required by Tokyo Stock Exchange listing rules. The Japan IR platform (japanir.jp), through which these statements are aggregated and summarized, is a private IR information service.

On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

Nippon Electric Glass was established in 1944 with investment from NEC Corporation and became an independent company in 1949, initially producing vacuum tubes and glass tubing. Through the 1950s and 1960s it expanded into CRT glass and industrial glass manufacturing. The company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 1973 and steadily shifted toward high-value specialty glass for electronics. By the 1990s and 2000s, NEG became one of the world's leading suppliers of glass substrates for liquid crystal displays, holding roughly a 20% global market share in LCD glass. Today it also produces glass fiber, pharmaceutical glass, heat-resistant glass, and advanced materials for energy storage. Japan IR (japanir.jp) is a separate, privately operated investor relations aggregation platform that began publishing AI-generated English summaries of disclosures from major Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed companies, starting with about 100 Prime Market firms and expanding toward full coverage of roughly 4,000 listed companies. NEG's investor statements appear on that platform as translated and summarized versions of filings submitted to Japanese regulatory and exchange authorities. Neither NEG nor Japan IR is a journalistic outlet; both are corporate or financial-market services with no editorial line on government policy.

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Profile compiled 2026-07-20; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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