Message from the New President

MISUMI Group Inc. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) has released a message from Arata Shimizu, who assumed the position of Representative Director and President on April 1, 2026. Starting from a deep understanding of our customers, we aim to become an AI platform that connects customers and suppliers. By doing so, we will strengthen manufacturing (digital manufacturing) in the age of AI, drive further global growth for our business, and contribute to the global manufacturing industry by sparking process innovation in new growth sectors.

[Image: Representative Director and President, Arata Shimizu]

Message Since our founding in 1963, we have provided services globally, primarily to the manufacturing industry, and now serve over 320,000 customers. We have grown by evolving our business model to meet the diverse needs of customers involved in design and manufacturing.

Starting from catalog sales, we have evolved into a technology-driven service provider, pioneering industry-firsts such as EDI connections, e-commerce site sales, and "meviy," which uses AI to provide automatic quotes for 3D drawings. In terms of strengthening product variety, we have realized mass customization while ensuring short delivery times by networking our own factories with those of our partner companies.

Our strength to date has been our focus on our customers' manufacturing processes. We have evolved our model by focusing on "time value" and innovating processes to improve convenience for our customers.

Today, technological evolution is accelerating, and we have entered the era of generative AI from the age of digitalization. We believe this AI impact represents a major turning point for our company from two perspectives.

First, it enables us to further empower and accelerate our core strength: process transformation. Second, the development of the AI market will lead to the expansion of our customer base. In particular, AI is driving the semiconductor, infrastructure, robotics/humanoid, agritech (smart agriculture), and photoelectric fusion-related markets. Of course, we also believe we can provide further process transformation to existing industries such as automotive and factory automation.

By combining our cultivated manufacturing expertise with our IT capabilities and leveraging AI, we aim to further enhance our product competitiveness. We aspire to become an AI platform that connects suppliers and customers, create new sales channels at customer touchpoints, and enhance our supply chain capabilities on a global level to achieve sustainable growth.

Biography Name: Arata Shimizu Date of Birth: June 1, 1972 Place of Birth: Yamanashi Prefecture Education: Graduated from Seikei University, Faculty of Engineering (currently Faculty of Science and Technology), March 1997

Career History: April 1997: Joined Accenture Japan Ltd. September 2005: Executive Partner, Accenture Japan Ltd. July 2015: Managing Director, Strategy Consulting Division, Accenture Japan Ltd. March 2017: Representative Director and COO, C-OS Co., Ltd. June 2017: Outside Director, Interworks, Inc. (currently Confidence Interworks, Inc.) September 2017: Outside Director, Trust Tech Inc. (currently Open Up Group Inc.) June 2020: Outside Director, MISUMI Group Inc. June 2021: Director, P&E Directions, Inc. June 2024: Senior Managing Director and CIO, and Representative Executive Officer of Digital Transformation System Platform, MISUMI Group Inc. October 2025: Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer, CIO, and Representative Officer of NEWTON Model Development & Hub, MISUMI Group Inc.