Targets and Action Plan

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Risks	Opportunities
Decline in credibility that would result from the occurrence of consumers and service users' safety or health issues.	Increase in demand for food safety, security and health improvement. Establishment of safe, stable supply system for product enabled by the consideration of human rights and improvement of work environment in the supply chain. Winning customer trust or creating new businesses with a stable supply of environmentally friendly resources and materials.

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Materiality	SDGs Targets	Impact Classification	Issues to Address	Business Area	Commitment	Specific Approach	Performance Indicators	Degree of Progress
Textile Company
Ensure Stable Procurement and Supply		Prevention of Pollution and Circulating Society	Reducing our environmental burden by circulating society	Textile products in general	We will contribute to realize a Circulating Society through our sustainable textile products and recycling of them.	Promote sustainable products and projects leading to the recycling of resources.	Promote the sustainable products such as “RENU”, a recycled polyester derived from textile, and set up schemes to recycle textile products.	The environmental impact of handling recycled polyester through the RENU project is as follows (estimated for FYE 2025). Waste volume to be made into “RENU”: equivalent to 6.2 million T-shirts, CO₂ reduction: 1,906 tons, Water usage reduction: 6,416 kiloliters. Approximately 4,300 collection points for “Wear to Fashion”, the clothing recycling service (as of March 2025). We are currently operating a joint project called the “ARChemia Project”, which involves textiles and chemicals, and transforms used clothing into chemical products with high environmental added value. To date, more than 10 companies have adopted this project, and we are continuing to promote its expansion.
Respect and Consider Human Rights Ensure Stable Procurement and Supply		Value Chain	Establishing a value chain reflecting consideration for human rights and the environment	Textile products in general	We will promote dealings with companies which respect human rights and which engage in environmental management throughout their entire value chains.	Strive to understand at an early stage the human rights, social and environmental risks in supply chains by continually conducting surveys on major suppliers.	Conduct on-site visit surveys and questionnaires at more than 50 major suppliers a year on an ongoing basis.	In FYE 2025, surveys were conducted for 75 suppliers in China and the Asian region. As a result, no significant issues were identified. Appropriate feedback is provided on survey responses from suppliers to promote a sustainable supply chain.
Food Company
Contribute to Healthier and More Affluent Lifestyles		Food Safety	Supplying safe, secure food	Overall food-related businesses	We will select and concentrate on suppliers to stably procure safe, secure food.	We will aim to strengthen the food safety management structures in our suppliers. We will do this by persons with certifications/qualifications related to the Food Safety Management System (FSMS) taking the central role in enhancing supplier audits and making requests for improvements.	Stably supply safe and secure food by enhancing the audits and guidance for suppliers mainly by the persons with certifications/qualifications related to the Food Safety Management System (FSMS).	We conducted inspections to 369 factories. We are continuing to stably supply safe and secure food. We are achieving this by continuing to enhance the audits and guidance for suppliers mainly by the persons with certifications/qualifications related to the Food Safety Management System (FSMS) or in-house qualification holders related to factory audit.
Respect and Consider Human Rights Ensure Stable Procurement and Supply		Supply Chain	Establishing a supply chain reflecting consideration for human rights and the environment	Provisions field	We will develop a procurement structure compliant with third-party body certification and supplier-specific codes of conduct.	We will promote procurement compliant with supplier-specific codes of conduct in coffee bean and cacao bean producing countries. We will strengthen the handling of oil certified by the RSPO - a third-party certification organization for palm oil. We will support the establishment of a promotion and distribution system in Japan for MSPO/ISPO in cooperation with domestic industrial associations. The aim of this is to encourage the use of certified oil systems in producing countries.	Coffee beans: Promotion of procurement of products compliant with supplier-specific codes of conduct or certified products based on our procurement policy. Cacao beans: Promotion of procurement of products compliant with supplier-specific codes of conduct (sustainable products) based on our procurement policy. Palm oil: Procurement of palm oil based on our procurement policy. Promotion of the disclosure of the set KPI indicators and supplier information. 2030 Coffee beans: Aim for a 50% switch to sustainable coffee beans. Cacao beans: Aim for a 100% switch to sustainable coffee beans. Aim for a 100% switch to sustainable palm oil.	Coffee beans: procurement ratio of FYE 2025:32% The coffee market has reached an all-time high, leading various client companies to reduce the usage ratio of certified raw materials for cost-cutting purposes. Although the handling ratio decreased compared to the previous year, the target value (over 30%) was achieved. Cacao beans (traceable products): procuremen ratio of FYE 2025: 65% (4,984 tons of traceable beans out of 7,728 tons total.) Palm oil: Check supplier’s sustainable palm oil sourcing policies through regular surveys, and continue purchasing based on our procurement policies. At the same time, we continue to publicize the ratio of RSPO certified Palm Oils and Traceable To Mill etc. Ratio of RSPO Certified Palm Products/Oleo chemicals of FYE 2025 Palm Oils 36% Oleo Chemical Products 69% Support Achievements to Each Producing Country (Qualitative) Coffee Beans:Next Generation Support/Ethiopia To contribute to the improvement of sanitary and educational standards in Ethiopia, the toilets at schools are constructed and the educational materials to preserve the history and culture of coffee are provided in the coffee bean production areas of Ethiopia.
Respect and Consider Human Rights Ensure Stable Procurement and Supply		Supply Chain	Responsible Fisheries Procurement	Fresh food field	We will develop a procurement structure compliant with third-party body certification and supplier-specific codes of conduct.	Promote procurement in accordance with the supplier’s own code of conduct in the country of origin of the tuna.	Develop a tuna procurement policy and promote procurement of products and certified products that comply with the policy.	One vessel was added to existing MSC fisheries certification in February 2025. In FYE 2025, we handled 12,500 tons of MSC certified tuna in total. (Around 6% volume in total) (Reference) We have acquired the MSC fisheries certification for six fishing vessels as of July 2022, and MSC fisheries certification for an additional 19 fishing vessels in June 2023.
General Products & Realty Company
Address Climate Change (Contribute to a Decarbonized Society) Ensure Stable Procurement and Supply		Forest	Using sustainable forest resources	Pulp Woodchips Wood products & materials	We deal in sustainable forest resources to reduce the impact on the environment and prevent the increase of greenhouse gases.	We handle certified or high-level management confirmed materials.	Ensure a 100% handling ratio of certified or high-level management confirmed materials.	In FYE 2025, 100% of our Pulp, Woodchips and Wood Products & Materials transactions were handled as certified material or were intensively managed.
Respect and Consider Human Rights Ensure Stable Procurement and Supply		Forest Supply Chain	Realization of sustainable supply of natural rubber	Natural Rubber	We will endeavor to establish measures to identify and avoid procuring rubber from any suppliers who dispossess indigenous people and develop High Conservation Value (HCV) areas, High Carbon Stock (HCS) areas and peatland. We support or offer a training to improve yields and quality for natural rubber producers, especially smallholders. We also offer a risk-assessment education that includes modern slavery issue.	We will establish a traceability system to make uncertain raw material procurement supply chain transparent. We will achieve our commitment through the sustainability activity of our unique initiative “PROJECT TREE”.	We aim to procure raw materials with traceability and sustainability ensured in our natural rubber processing business. (Aiming to achieve 100% traceability for the natural rubber raw materials which we procure by 2025 through an original block chain-based traceability system.) We will increase the number of smallholders implementing sustainability training and education, and contribute to achieving sustainability in the natural rubber industry.	Traceability of the natural rubber raw materials’ procurement reported by suppliers reached 100%. Traceability of the natural rubber raw materials’ procurement using our system reached 24% of the monthly purchasing volume up to the smallholders. 11,991 of smallholders implemented sustainability training and education. Based on the performance from January to December 2024.