Abstract
Makoto Nakao
President & CEO, GC Corporation
Ladies and Gentlemen,
the IDS represents the global world of dentistry and displays its
current achievement potential. The first IDS took place 90 years
ago in 1923, and dentistry has made enormous progress since
then. GC has had its share in shaping this development and has
contributed to many of its milestones. However, GC started
somewhat earlier, and we celebrated our 90th anniversary two
years ago. To this day, we have remained a family and associates
enterprise.
The success of GC is based on clear principles which are
incorporated in all of our development and marketing concepts.
One is our mission statement that - as a dental company - we
shall work toward improving the quality of life worldwide. This is
all the more important, as science unequivocally confirms the
existence of interactions between oral and systemic health. Our
products have raised the standards in dentistry and will continue
to make essential contributions to the safety, security, health, and
the personality of patients.
Our corporate philosophy "Semui Concept" is another essential
principle of GC and an important success factor of our corporation,
which we learnt from the failure of our first product at the time of
founding. All our associates believe in the wisdom of putting
themselves in the position of the customer and putting aside their
own preferences. Our customers are the people such as patients,
the dentists, and dental technicians and hygienists.
Another typical feature distinguishing GC is the existence of quality
standards implemented in all areas of our corporation. Among
them are, apart from those regulating the efficiency of products
and services, our high environmental protection and sustainability
standards. GC has repeatedly been awarded the most renowned
quality management prizes.
As a multinational enterprise with approx. 2,500 associates, GC is
now operating on the basis of these principles in five continents,
at all our manufacturing sites in Japan, Europe, USA, China and
additionally soon in India. Hence GC is worldwide one of the
biggest dental suppliers, and it pursues the vision of further
extending its top position until 2021, the year of our 100-year
anniversary. To enable us to operate from a more central position,
the GC International Department is going to open office in
Switzerland by April 2013. All global operations will be launched
from there; accordingly, this will also be my future workplace.
GC is associated with universities, research institutes as well as
private practice dentists and dental technicians on a global scale,
allowing us to offer our customers steadily improving products, as
research and practical experiences are making progress. This is also
reflected
by
the
current
developments
our
corporation
is
implementing in the fields of orthodontics, implantology, and
CAD/CAM.
We will present some of these novelties at this press conference,
and I thank you for lending us your time. We need the support of
the media to spread our messages. Our principles have not
changed in over 90 years, today, they are just as modern as our
innovative developments.