Tekscend Photomask Signs Partnership Agreement with Shiga Lakes
TOKYO - December 26, 2024 - Tekscend Photomask (formerly Toppan Photomask) announced that it has signed a Silver Partnership Agreement with Shiga Lakes, a professional basketball team based in Shiga Prefecture, Japan, for the 2024-25 season.
Shiga Lakes is a member of the B.League, Japan's professional basketball league and the only professional sports club based in Shiga Prefecture. In addition to hosting home games, the team contributes to the development of sports culture through community-based activities in all over the prefecture and the SDGs. Shiga Lakes is also expected to make a further progress by joining the B.League Premier, Japan’s top basketball league, which is scheduled to start in 2026.
Tekscend Photomask operates one of its eight global semiconductor photomask manufacturing sites in Higashi-ohmi City, Shiga Prefecture, and one of its key philosophies is to coexist in harmony with the local community. Sharing Shiga Lakes' commitment to both bold challenges and community contributions, Tekscend Photomask decided to support the team as a Silver Partner.
As a Silver Partner for the 2024-25 season, Tekscend Photomask will display its brand logo on the courtside and ring-side scoreboards at the Shiga Daihatsu Arena (Otsu City, Shiga) starting with the game on December 29, and will also broadcast a video advertisement on the arena screens starting in January. Tekscend Photomask will support each game together with the Shiga Lakes Boosters.
Takato Hara, CEO of Shiga Lakes, said, "We are very pleased to welcome Tekscend Photomask as a Silver Partner of Shiga Lakes. Starting this season, Shiga Lakes has established the 'LAKES STATEMENT' with the goals of 'continuously improving corporate value' and 'realizing a more prosperous future', with the vision of developing into a club that is more than just a basketball team. At the same time, we have adopted "Lake up together" as our corporate slogan, and we are moving forward to fulfill our desire to "make tomorrow better than today". At this turning point, we are all looking forward to 'Lake Up' with everyone who has made a new start as 'Tekscend Photomask' from November 1, 2024.”
Teruo Ninomiya, Representative Director, President & CEO at Tekscend Photomask, said, "Since the establishment of the Shiga site in the 1970s, we have grown together with the local community throughout manufacturing precision electronic components. The passion for challenge and sincere attitude toward community-based activities that Shiga Lakes has shown resonates deeply with our philosophies of 'proactively and boldly challenging and constantly improving' and 'fulfilling our social responsibilities as a good corporate citizen'. We are very excited to contribute to the revitalization of the local community through sports and to explore new opportunities together by seizing the opportunity of the Silver Partner Agreement."
About Shiga Lakes
Head Office: 3F Optex Ninohama Building, 4-7-5 Ninohama, Otsu City, Shiga Prefecture, Japan.
CEO: Takato Hara
Business activities:
Planning and management of basketball entertainment events, and operation of sports schools, manufacturing and sales of various original goods related to basketball teams, etc.
Established: August 2007
Official website: https://www.lakestars.net/
Hometown: Otsu City
Friendship town: Kusatsu City
About Tekscend Photomask
Tekscend Photomask Corp. is the world’s premier provider of photomasks for semiconductors and a group company of TOPPAN Holdings Inc. (TYO: 7911). Tekscend Photomask was previously known as Toppan Photomask. Headquartered in Tokyo, Tekscend Photomask leverages its worldwide customer service network and eight manufacturing facilities in key geographic locations to offer the world's most advanced lithography technology. Tekscend Photomask is also expanding into nanoimprint molds and other nano-fabricated products. For more information, visit https://www.photomask.com/en.
