Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. Approves the Payment of Year End Dividend; Elects of Takashi Shigematsu as an Outside Director

Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. is one of the world leaders in design, production and marketing of innovative electronic components for the telecommunications and automobile sectors, etc. Net sales break down by family of products as follows: - electronic components (74.4%): capacitors, piezoelectric components, etc.; - modules (22.4%); - other (3.2%). Sales break down geographically as follows: Japan (9.2%), China (54.8%), Asia (15.6%), America (11.4%) and Europe (9%).