Presents for the Underprivileged

Kubota Engine America Corporation (KEA）and Kubota Tractor Corporation (KTC) annually participate in a community engagement activity called the Angel Tree Program.

The Angel Tree Project is an initiative for delivering Christmas gifts to underprivileged children and senior adults through the Salvation Army, an American charitable organization. When children and senior adults become registered as Angels, tags noting their names, ages, and desired items such as clothing and toys are shared with donors. Donors can purchase gifts and leave them with the Salvation Army, which will distribute them to the Angels.

KEA participates through the Salvation Army in Illinois, where its headquarters is located, and donates warm clothing such as hats and gloves as well as toys to local children. In 2021, to give gifts to those in need, KTC also participated in the Salvation Army's Angel Tree Project in Texas, where the company's headquarters are located, and in Georgia, where it has offices.

KTC also supports Soldiers' Angels, which assists veterans and their families. In 2022, at the Veterans Resource Center – Dallas, KTC donated hygiene products to homeless veterans. During the Christmas season, the company also participated in the Holiday Stockings for Heroes campaign, in which gifts are delivered to soldiers deployed across the U.S. and overseas, by collecting and donating 100 stockings stuffed with small gift items by employees and various departments.

Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc. (GP), an implement manufacturer in the Kubota Group, together with Land Pride, Inc. (LP), a division of GP, support the Christmas for Kids program sponsored locally in Kansas by Saint Francis Ministries.

Saint Francis Ministries serves more than 11,000 children and families across six states. As such, the Christmas for Kids program needs many gifts and Saint Francis Ministries welcomes Christmas present donations for the children.

From November to December each year GP and LP collect used toys and cash donations from their employees and those of their distributors. Great Plains Trucking, another division of GP, transports the collected toys to Saint Francis Ministries who distributes them to underprivileged children in various locations.

Through 2019, GP donated a cumulative total of $200,000 to nearly 20,000 children. In 2020 donations and toys were given to 6,000 children.

The majority of the Mexican population is Catholic and the custom of donating money is well established. Kubota México S.A. de C.V. (KMX), a tractor sales company in Mexico, donates toys and other items to an orphanage each year in April and December.

Toys, snacks and groceries collected from KMX employees are donated to an orphanage in the Guadalajara region where the company is located. This activity was initiated in 2015 when an employee suggested it and it has been conducted every year since then.

To maintain a sense of social contribution as a member of the Kubota Group, KMX will continue this activity to give back to its community.