New Corporate Logo Respect Inc. (Headquarters: Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, Representative Director: Go Hane) and its affiliated companies will refresh their group brand to "TOMOSE Group" and change their company name effective July 1, 2026. Concurrently, we have established "Future Empathy Company" as our new core value. We are taking a new step forward as a partner that shapes our customers' "desired futures." Please be assured that after the company name change, we will continue to support and handle your transactions and ongoing projects as usual. ■ The Meaning Behind the Company Name and Core Value We aim to be a partner that deeply engages with our customers' situations and their underlying circumstances, to discover and realize together the unspoken wishes and the "ideal state" that has not yet been fully realized. The company name "TOMOSE" embodies our desire to empathize with the inner aspirations and potential of our customers, like a light, and to walk together towards the future. We want to be an entity that re-examines the wishes that have not yet taken clear form, and the original values that have become obscured within an organization, and transforms them into the power of business and organization. This idea is at the root of our company name and core value. This may be the form we wish to achieve as a business. It may be the values that our employees cherish. Or it may be the original aspirations that have been postponed over time due to daily operations or organizational constraints. TOMOSE Group will deeply empathize with these "desired futures" within our customers and connect those aspirations not merely to ideals, but to concrete values shaped through business, organization, communication, and system development. In recent years, technological innovation, including AI, has been advancing rapidly, and the nature of work is becoming more sophisticated. While many tasks are changing due to efficiency and automation, we believe that what will be