"DX Stocks 2023," "Noteworthy DX Companies 2023" and "Platinum DX Companies 2023-2025" Selected

1. Outline of the DX Stocks

From among TSE-listed companies, METI and the organizations select outstanding companies that have internally established the systems for promoting DX, an approach that contributes to improving corporate value, and that have achieved outstanding utilization of digital technologies as “DX Stocks.” Through this selection, METI and the organizations aim to widely publicize successful companies as role models for other companies and encourage presidents to improve their awareness of DX, while further promoting DX by helping companies to receive evaluation from a variety of stakeholders. The selected companies of DX Stocks are those which continue to make outstanding efforts for not only introducing exceptional information systems and utilizing data, but also boldly taking efforts to change in their business models and management practices in continuous manner based on digital technologies. In addition, because of strongly encouraging companies’ efforts for DX that contributes to enhancing their competitiveness, METI and the organizations select outstanding companies as “companies exercising leadership in the digital era” from among the selected companies mentioned above and celebrate them as winners of the “DX Grand Prix 2023.” Furthermore, from the 2023 program, METI and the organizations have newly started selecting companies that have seen the greatest success and achievements in their DX efforts since the start of the program as winners of the “Platinum DX Companies 2023-2025.” METI and the organizations expect these companies to further play leadership roles and also expect these outstanding efforts to become role models for other companies in tackling efforts of DX.

- Questionnaire topics in the 2023 Survey for DX (items subject to assessment)

Ⅰ. Visions and business models

Ⅱ. Strategies

Ⅱ-ⅰ. Approaches to organization development, human resources and corporate culture

Ⅱ-ⅱ. Approaches to developing environments for utilizing IT systems and digital technologies

Ⅲ. Achievements and important achievement indices

Ⅳ. Governance systems

2. List of selected companies

(1) DX Grand Prix 2023 (in the order of industries)

From among 32 companies selected for “DX Stocks 2023” category, METI and the organizations selected the following 2 companies as the companies that have achieved outstanding efforts.

(2) DX Stocks 2023 (in the order of industries; in the order of securities code; except the companies selected for the DX Grand Prix 2023 category)

METI and the organizations selected 30 outstanding companies that make efforts to boldly change their business models and other practices in a continuous manner based on digital technologies, and that advance DX that contributes to new growth and enhancing competitiveness, as winners of the DX Stocks 2023 (except the companies selected for the DX Grand Prix 2023 category).

(3) Noteworthy DX Companies 2023 (in the order of industries; in the order of securities code)

From among the companies not selected for the DX Stocks 2023 category, METI and the organizations selected the following 19 companies that are making noteworthy efforts, particularly efforts for contributing to corporate value, as winners of the Noteworthy DX Companies 2023.

(4) Platinum DX Companies 2023-2025 (in order of industries)

In addition to selecting winners of the conventional DX Grand Prix, DX Stocks and Noteworthy DX Companies, METI and the organizations selected the following 3 companies that have been undertaking outstanding efforts since the start of the program as winners of the “DX Platinum Companies 2023-2025.”

Requirements that winners of the DX Platinum Companies 2023-2025 category should meet are as follows.

• Winners must be companies selected for the DX Stocks category for three consecutive years.
• Winners must be companies selected for the DX Grand Prix category in the past.

Note: This selection is a temporary measure effective for a limited period of three years. Accordingly, METI and the organizations have set the title of the category as “Platinum DX Companies 2023-2025”.

3. Report on selected companies for the DX Stocks 2023 category and Ceremony on the companies

On May 31 (Wed.), 2023, METI and the organizations jointly held the ceremony on the companies selected for the DX Stocks 2023 category. Taking this opportunity, METI and the organizations released the report as a compilation of the efforts by the companies selected for “DX Stocks 2023”, “Noteworthy DX Companies 2023” and “Platinum DX Companies 2023-2025” categories and the analysis of the responses collected in 2023 Survey for DX. METI published the report on the following website and encourages the public to view the report. Moreover, details of the ceremony, including a keynote speech, introduction to the efforts by the winners of the DX Grand Prix 2023, and a panel discussion, are scheduled to be released on the METI website at a later date. METI will also put information about that website on the following webpage and encourages you to visit the page.

• METI Website: Digital Transformation Stocks (DX Stocks)

Related Links

• Ceremony on Winners of the Digital Transformation Stocks (DX Stocks) 2023 Held- Companies for the New Category “DX Platinum Companies” Selected (in Japanese) -
• Survey Items of Questionnaire for Selecting Companies for the DX Stocks 2023 Category Released (in Japanese)
• Digital Transformation Stocks (DX Stocks) (in Japanese)

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