Newsletter May 07

May 31, 2007 Volume 2, issue 4 (May) Issued by Admin. & Planning Group

PCV’s Newsletter Panasonic Communications Vietnam Co., Ltd Page Plot J1/2, Thang Long Industrial Park, Dong Anh Dist, Hanoi, Vietnam.

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From the editor In this issue, I would like to introduce Mr. Fujiyoshi’s message to PCV’s employees. Because of its length, it will be divided into several issues. I hope you will give your attention to following the divided content. Besides, with the improvement of each group, each group in PCV has created its own slogan. They demonstrate the groups’ spirit and that is why they cannot be omitted in our newsletter this month. Some section’s slogans are introduced this month and the rest will be introduced in following issues.

Letter of Mr. Fujiyoshi

05 Annual policy meeting and founding ceremony

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I wish to express my appreciation to everyone who provided information for this newsletter.

HR activities

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Cost buster kick-off meeting

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Letter of Mr. Fujiyoshi to PCV’s members (part 1)

Friendly people On April 5, on the occasion of the PCV’s Grand Opening Ceremony, I visited Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. This was my third time visiting Vietnam. My first time was to set up a place for the Mr. Fujiyoshi and PCV’s employees factory; the second time was to promote the factory’s construction. Vietnam has many famous landscapes such as Halong Bay, theWorld Heritage Site, but I noticed that there were not many Japanese visiting there, even yourself doesn’t know much about it. That’s why I would like to tell you a little bit about PCV and my feelings for Vietnam. At the home page of Matsushita’s website is the link to the website of Mr. Nakamura. He attended the PCV’ Grand Opening ceremony and then delivered his impressions after that ceremony in his letter of thanks. I suggest you spend a little bit of your time to check it out. PCV was established under the establishment of Panasonic Vietnam which belongs to the Matsushita group with the headquarters in Thang Long industrial park, a suburb of Hanoi. As with the other overseas Panasonic’s companies, PCV has a close connection with the headquarters in Japan. Since last October the company started production operation and then was recognized officially as an enterprise so we held the Grand Opening ceremony with the attendance of government officials. The guest list was kept in the company’s home page.

Groups’ slogan Accounting section

Correctly- Promptly- fairly Comments: Our slogan is To practice P.D.C.A in cooperation with all sections

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Thang Long is meaningful land, means “flying dragon”, PV is the holder company with big factories including PCV and PEDV which act together to run the business in Vietnam. The first members are the key persons. General Director Tanaka (former PCM’s General Director) has been making efforts to provide the employees with training on production, working manners base on Mr. Fujiyoshi’s meeting with some key members PCC’s business guideline “Making people before making products”. On the First of May PCV welcomed the 484th member, many of these members were sent to Japan to do research and to be trained. By the end of this year, we plan to increase the number of employees to 2000 persons. PCV’s employees are enthusiastic, diligent and are expected to lead PCV to become a company whose products are sophisticated. A lot of excellent students graduated from Hanoi University of Technology and Hanoi University of Foreign studies, 24 people among them have achieved their Nikyu certificates. In the Grand Opening ceremony, two female employees translated for the factory tour very well which made Mr. Nakamura very glad. As for me, after that ceremony I had my first talk with all PCV’s employees in the afternoon. Later I had an informal meeting with some employees. When talking about their hobbies some said that they would like to study more so that they can speak 4 languages: Vietnamese, English, Japanese, and Chinese. You employees are so diligent and studious! During that afternoon’s meeting, when I had just mentioned about establishing QCDE beside of QDC they immediately gave me some creative ideas for this. (to be continued)

Groups’ slogan IT section

Creativity・Technology・Collaboration Our aim: To support PCV will become Global No.1 Company, we will provide IT services with Creativity, Technology and Collaboration to all customers

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Annual policy Meeting for 2007 and founding ceremony. The annual policy meeting for 2007 and the founding ceremony were held on 3rd May with the aims of launching 2007’s policy and celebrating the founding day of Matsushita corporation. In the meeting, Mr. Tanaka presented PCV 2007’s policy. So PCV’s basic policy is “Through making use of a strength of Vietnam (PCV), we will concentrate manufacturing at high quality and competitive price to realize ‘Global No.1 Factory’ “.

Mr. Tanaka presented PCV’s policy

PCV will follow this policy base on the management policy: “making people before making products

Presenting awards to excellent 5S implementation groups

And also in this meeting, we gave prizes for the 5S excellent implementation award to the groups and sections which had the best 5S result of the fiscal year 2006. The 5S activities were applied in PCV since its establishment and it has been implemented well so far. The prize was an encouragement for employees to get a better result and to maintain this activity.

Groups’ slogan

ON Manufacturing group

ＰＣＶ こころひとつに 一致団結

ON slogan’s meaning is to turn PCV into “ one heart “ and " Co-operative Unity" among all PCV members. To fulfill all ( Ho, Ren, So ) is : “ Report, Inform, Discuss “ all of which will be completely done in our work. Let's build this factory based upon Made in Vietnam .

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HR activities We can say that this time is the time for the development of HR activities in PCV since the expansion of production is going very quickly. On May 09 we once again held a welcome ceremony in Thang Long college to welcome the 5th group of new workers in PCV. In addition to that activity, PCV now is doing direct recruitment and later will send the selected candidates to Thang Long college for training

Ceremony to welcome new workers in Thang Long college

Corporate public relation activities The corporate public relations group in PCC has the duty of issuing the “Communication”, the newspaper of PCC. Recently PCV has been posted in several issues. On May15 Mr. Kawamura from PCC visited PCV and interviewed some sections. These information is expected to be in the Aug issue.

Mr. Kawamura’s interview PCV members

Groups’ slogan

Admin. & Planning Group

SCM section Right things, right times, right expenses 1/ 2/ 3/

Right things = Correct products to the Customers as required. Right times = Products delivered to the Customers in time to avoid storage charge ….. Right expenses = Cost down to reasonable price in comparison with competitors

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Cost buster Kickoff meeting Since the company was established, we have already launched the 5S campaign, safety and health, environment and ISM activities etc. with certain achievements. Now, in compliance with Panasonic Group’s policies and instructions, the launching of the Cost Busters Project in PCV for FY2007.was held on May 28.

Ms. Miura Hiroko presented the CB of PCC

Acting as an overseas company of Panasonic Group and being instructed by Head Quarters, PCV’s target for FY07 is to achieve the reduction amount of USD 413,000, with 133 themes in total. The allocation of reduction target based on the number of employees in each Introduction of PCV’s CB organization chart by Group to ensure that every member Mr. Okazaki in PCV will have chance to contribute their ideas into every activity of our company with the final aim being to create products with high quality at a competitive price All of the theme’s owners attended the CB kick-off meeting most notably Ms. Miura Hiroko, CB project leader of PCC.

Groups’ slogan

GA section General Affairs Section: Goal- Action- Success Working in very young and active environment as PCV, GAS always set goal, take action to achieve success. The idea also comes from abbreviation name of our section: GAS.

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HR Information corner New members 1.

Nguyen Cao Khanh: Joined on 28th May as supervisor of Plastic in-house Manufacturing group. He was born in 1980.

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Nguyen Hoai Le: joined on 28th May as officer of accounting section, was born in 1985

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Pham Thi Quyen: Joined on 28th May as officer of Material control section- Procurement group. She was born in 1981

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Tran Thi Chinh: joined on 28th May as Officer of Purchasing section, Procurement group, was born in 1980

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Le Hoang Mai Lan: joined on 28th May as Chief of GA sectionAdmin. & Planning group, was born in 1979

Resigned members 1.

Nguyen Tue: IT Manager- Accounting group, resigned on 02nd May

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Pham Bich Ngoc: Production member, ON Production, resigned on 06th May

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Tran Thi Thuy Ha: Skilled worker, ON Production, resigned on 25th Apr

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Nguyen Duc Quang: Officer, ON Quality control, resigned on 18th May

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Dang Ha Lam: Chief, Accounting, resigned on 20th May

Groups’ slogan In-house Manufacturing group Creation- Challenge- Quick response The IMG’s member can do work with a dream, and we expect our customer’s appreciation