Corporate Data As of March 31, 2010 Corporate Data JS Group Corporation Annual Report 2010 91 Corporate Name  JS Group Corporation Established  September 19, 1949 Registered Office   2-1-1 Ojima, Koto-ku, Tokyo 136-8535, Japan Head Office   11F Office Tower, Tornare Nihombashi-hamacho, 3-3-2 Nihombashi-hamacho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0007, Japan Capital Stocks  ¥68.1 billion Fiscal Year Closing  March 31 Employees  44 (Consolidated Employees: 35,976) Securities Traded Tokyo Stock Exchange  (Common Stock)   Osaka Securities Exchange  Nagoya Stock Exchange Transfer Agent and Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation  Special Management 1-4-5 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku,Tokyo, Japan  of Accounts Annual Meeting Normally held in June in Tokyo, Japan  of Shareholders  Overview of Major The Company controls and manages domestic Businesses   and overseas companies that operate housing- related business and urban environment-related  business through acquisition or holding of stocks. 1923 Founded as a building materials retailer. 1949 Nihon Tategu Kogyo Co., Ltd. established. 1971 Toyo Sash Co., Ltd. established through a merger of six sales companies. 1974 Housing exterior business commences with establishment of Toyo Exterior Co., Ltd. 1977 Home center business commences with establishment of Viva Home Corporation (later Tostem Viva Corporation). Production of sashes for commercial buildings commences. 1984 Homebuilding Franchise Chains commences with the establishment of Eyeful Home Inc. 1985 Mitsui Light Metal Processing Co., Ltd. and two other companies join the Group; Sash business for superhigh-rise buildings reinforced. Housing equipment business commences. 1988 Overseas sash production commences with the completion of Thai plant. 1992 Toyo Sash Co., Ltd. renamed as Tostem Corporation. 2000 Tostem Suzuki Shutter Co., Ltd. joins group and promotes building shutter operations. 2001 JS Group Corporation (then Tostem Inax Holding Corporation) created from integration of Tostem Group and Inax Group 1924 Establishment of Ina Seito Co., Ltd. as a producer of tiles, ceramic pipe  and terra cotta. 1945 Production of sanitary wares commences. 1958 Production of Polybath commences. 1967 Launch of first integrated-type Japanese shower toilet,  Sanitarina 61 . 1968 Production of bathroom units commences. 1975 Production of system kitchens commences. 1980 Inax Maintenance Corporation established. 1985 Company name changed to Inax Corporation and establishment of Inax Engineering. 1996 VINAX (Inax Vietnam Sanitary Ware Co., Ltd.) manufacturing joint-venture for sanitary ware in Vietnam established. Establishment of joint venture in China, Suzhou Inax Sanitary Fitting Co., Ltd. 1998 Establishment of joint venture in China, Suzhou Inax Building Materials  Co.,Ltd. 2002 Jyu-Seikatsu Realty, Corp. and ERA Japan Corp. join the Group. Establishment of investment company in China, Inax (China) Investment Co., Ltd. The Dalian, China plant, which produces wooden interior furnishings, completed. 2004 Tostem Inax Holding Corporation renamed as JS Group Corporation. 2005 Nittan Company, Limited joins the JS Group. Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. and Tostem merge exterior building materials businesses to form Asahi Tostem Exterior Building Materials Co., Ltd. 2006 JS Group Senior Life Corporation founded and enters fee-based senior citizens assisted-living home business. 2008 Inax Vietnam Plumbing Fixtures Co., Ltd. established. Jaxson SPI Inc., a maker of high-quality bathtubs, joins the JS Group. 2009 JS Supply Corporation established and integrates Group purchasing and distribution operations. Lixil Energy Corporation founded and enters solar energy generation systems business. JS Group Senior Life Corporation absorbed into Senior Life Company. American Standard Asia-Pacific division joins the JS Group. 2010 Sun Wave Corporation joins the JS Group. Shin Nikkei Company, Ltd. joins the JS Group. Lixil Corporation established to propose and promote integrated sales strategies for the JS Group. Inax and Sun Wave merge sales and marketing divisions to form Inax Sunwave Marketing Corporation. History