CSR at the Textile Company

CSR at this Division Company

Contributing to the realization of a healthy, prosperous, and active society

The Textile Company places a top priority on further improving the safety of its products and services as well as customer satisfaction in its CSR activities. It also strives to promote environment-friendly businesses and expand its CSR activities into our group companies.

Hitoshi OkamotoPresident, Textile Company

CSR Action Plans

Key points of our FY2012 action plans

We will expand monitoring surveys of overseas manufacturing plants to group companies from this fiscal year, and we will aim for further advancements in supply chain management through employee education. We will also continue to promote environment-friendly businesses.

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Major CSR initiatives

Pre-Organic Cotton Program

We are promoting the rollout of products made of pre-organic cotton material through collaboration with well-known brands that support this program, as a cross-divisional project in the Textile Company. Particular elements of this project that have been well received by consumers are, first of all, the traceability of the cotton used, from harvest through until it reaches the hands of the consumer, and the consideration taken with regards the associated environmental burden. Fiscal 2011 was the third year of the program, with 300 tons of certified organic cotton harvested out of this program.
Going forward, we will continue working to spread pre-organic cotton, aiming for production that is kind to both the Earth’s environment as well as producers.

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Cotton harvesting on one of our farms in India

Fashion Earth PROJECT

An initiative was started in 2010 to procure CO₂ emission credits from a number of sources, including a UN-certified wind power generation project in India, and sell blue hang tags with FEP-original CO₂ emission rights to apparel manufacturers. This project has led to the reduction of about 4,000t of CO₂ to date.
In 2011, the International Year of Forests, a green FEP tag that supports forest preservation projects in Japan based on Ministry of the Environment systems will be developed with co-operation from the “more trees” organization. This activity gives both apparel manufacturers and consumers an opportunity to contribute to environmental conservation by having apparel makers attach FEP hang tags on their products, and having consumers purchase products with these tags.
By calling on wide-ranging participation by apparel manufacturers, we aim to spread environmental conservation initiatives to the across the industry as a whole, contributing to the prevention of global warming.

Fashion Earth PROJECT

FEP logo

Blue and green FEP hang tags

CSR initiatives by major group Companies

Conserving Forests with Hunting World

Under a campaign bearing the slogan “Save the Elephants,” Hunting World has been contributing 1% of sales of charity goods to the Borneo Conservation Trust’s “Green Corridor Plan” from 2008.
This “Green Corridor Plan” will connect fragmented sections of forest to re-establish continuous, natural migratory pathways that wild animals can negotiate in order to protect the rich ecosystem of forests, starting with Bornean elephants.
These support funds have now enabled the purchase of 4.6 acres of private land that connects separated protected areas.
Going forward, Hunting World will continue to promote initiatives for enabling our co-existence with nature.