OREANDA-NEWS. Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (“Company”) announced today that the meeting of the Board of Directors held todayresolved to continue the global long-term incentive plan, which was introduced in fiscal 2014 as a stock grant system for  Company Group Management in Japan and overseas.

(1)    The Company introduced this Plan in fiscal 2014 for Company Group Management in Japan and overseas as a highly transparent and objective incentive plan that is closely linked to company performance. The purpose of this Planis to improve the Company’s mid- and long-term performance as well as raise awareness of the need to enhance the Company’s value.
(2)    The Stock Grant ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) Trust (“ESOP Trust”) was adopted for the Plan. A new ESOP Trust will be established when the Plan is continued in fiscal 2016. The ESOP Trust is an employee incentive plan based on the ESOP system in the U.S.A. wherein Company shares that are acquired by the ESOP Trust and the amount of money equivalent to Company shares converted into money (“Company Shares, etc.”) will be vested or paid (“vested, etc.”) to employees based on their job positions and the achievement of performance indicators, etc.,  along with dividends from Company shares.
(3)    The period when Company Group Management in Japan and overseas receives Company Shares, etc. and dividends from Company shares under this Plan will be a period specified each year during the Trust term.
(4)    This Plan is for Company Group Management in Japan and overseas and is expected to have the effects of encouraging Company Group Management to work together under the global framework and of raising their awareness of the need to improve the Company Group’s performance. Company Shares, etc. and dividends from Company shares will paid according to the job positions of all Management personnel, on an individual basis, and achievement of performance indicators, etc., subject to having completed one year or longer of continued service at the Company in principle. This Plan thereby grants mid- and long-term incentives for improvement of the Company’s value to each member of the Management personnel and is expected to increase the effect of retaining Management.