Bridgestone Corp., Annual General Meeting, Mar 30, 2010, at 10:00 JST-Japan Standard, USSR Zone 8. Location: International Conference Room, 2nd Floor, Keidanren Kaikan Bldg. 3-2, Otemachi 1-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo,Japan. Agenda: To consider business report and consolidated financial statements for the 91st fiscal year (January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009), as well as audit reports of the accounting auditor and the board of corporate auditors for the consolidated financial statements; to consider appropriation of surplus; to consider election of eight (8) members of the board; to consider election of one corporate auditor; to consider election of one substitute corporate auditor; to consider presentation of retirement allowance to a retiring corporate auditor and final retirement allowance to the corporate auditors due to the abolition of the retirement allowance system; to consider revision of total remuneration to corporate auditors; and to presentation of remuneration by stock options to the members of the board.

Bridgestone Corp. announced financial results for the year of 2009. For the year, the company reported net profits of 1 billion ($10.98 million). However, this represents a significant decline of nearly 90% year-on-year from 2008's net profits of 10.4 billion. The company's operating and pre-tax profits also remained weak, posting declines of 42.5% year-on-year to 75.7 billion and 26.9% year-on-year to 54.5 billion, respectively. Despite an improvement during the final quarter of the year, the company's full-year sales revenues stood at 2.6 trillion, down 19.5% year-on-year.

Bridgestone Corp. expected to Report Q1 2010 Results on May 3, 2010. This event was calculated by Capital IQ (Created on February 19, 2010).

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