CEO Message

November 2025 marked 80 years since the founding of Izumi Shokai, the predecessor of the IDEC Group.

Since the founding, the IDEC Group has provided a wide range of products and services. Leveraging the core technologies created and enhanced through development of industrial switches and other control devices for machines, we want to make safer, more pleasant points of contact between humans and machines at manufacturing sites and in daily life. This is how we desire to contribute to society.
To thus contribute to the functioning and well-being of society, based on the premise that at times humans make mistakes and machines break down, we are inspired to pursue and attain consistently high levels of safety, ANSHIN, and well-being, and protect humans even in unforeseen circumstances.

The business environment has changed dramatically since our founding. Currently, nearly 70% of the Group’s core product sales come from regions outside of Japan, and will likely continue to increase in the future. For this reason, the Group is implementing various structural reforms, with “globalization” at the heart of our business strategy. In FY2026, we are making major changes to our management structure to create a global matrix management organization. This will enable us to assign the right personnel to the right positions, regardless of their region or location. However, I feel that we are still only halfway through our journey to becoming a truly global company.

To achieve this—to become truly global—we must drastically widen our view, optimizing our business operations from a global perspective, and on a consolidated basis, rather than optimizing individual regions. For example, subtleties in product preferences, uses and needs are different in each country and region. We must reflect these varying needs from the planning and design stages, and we must change not only our management structure, but also the way individual employees think and work.

This shift to a global mindset is crucial to the IDEC Group’s future business expansion and development. Going forward, we will accelerate our organizational management and employee mindset reforms to become a truly global company with the aim to become a corporate group that will last for over 100 years.

A company’s strength is its people. If each and every employee is able to achieve their fullest potential while moving in the same direction, then the Company will continue to develop and achieve a level of growth that all stakeholders are satisfied with.
The IDEC Group will continue to focus on both global recruitment and human resource development, to create a working environment where diverse talent can thrive. I hope that you will join me in looking forward to our future growth and success.