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 circular 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 2024). Waste volume to be made into “RENU”: equivalent to 6.3 million T-shirts, CO2 reduction: 1,931 tons, Water usage reduction: 6,500 kiloliters.
  • Approximately 3,000 collection points for “Wear to Fashion”, the clothing recycling service (as of March 2024).
  • Launched the “ARChemia Project” as a joint project between textiles and chemicals, and started it to transform used clothing into chemical products with high environmental added value.
  • Respect and Consider Human Rights
  • Ensure Stable Procurement and Supply
Supply Chain Establishing a supply 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 supply 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 2024, surveys were conducted for 74 suppliers in China and the Asian region. As a result, no significant issues were identified. We also confirmed that follow-up actions were in progress such as maintenance of internal regulations that was considered as an issue through the human rights due diligence carried out in the previous year.
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 339 factories in FYE 2024.
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: We achieved our quantitative target for FYE2024 of a certified product ratio 20% or more. (Actual result is projected to be 37%.) We achieved a significant increase over the previous year by acquiring market share for UCC and Ajinomoto that had been acquired by other trading companies in the previous year. BtoB level disclosure of digital traceability information utilizing Farmer Connect (coffee traceability platform) has reached 3 thousand MT in FYE 2024.
  • Cacao beans (traceable products): achieved 64% (5,950MT of traceable beans out of 9,253MT 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
    • Palm Oils 29%
    • Oleo Chemical Products 72%

Support Achievements to Each Producing Country (Qualitative)

  • Coffee Beans:
    • Support for Mobile Clinics / Guatemala
      Through Unex, medical care is provided to coffee producers and their families living in mountainous areas without nearby hospitals.
  • Sesame:
    • Support for Livelihood Improvement in Malawi Infrastructure support to Malawi through collaboration with Takemoto Oil & Fat. In FYE 2023, the provision of ambulances and medical equipment was implemented. In FYE 2024, 9 wells were constructed.
    • Support for Small-scale Sesame Farmers in Paraguay
      Through collaboration with Kadoya Oil, support is provided to farmers, including technical guidance, agricultural tools such as seeders and sieves, and provision of seeds.
  • 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.
  • We have acquired the MSC fisheries certification for six fishing vessels as of July 2022.
  • We have obtained 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 2024, 100% of our Pulp, Woodchips and Wood Priducts & 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 TREEOpen in a new window”.
  • 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 7.0% up to the collecting points and 0.4% up to the smallholders.
  • 3,804 of smallholders implemented sustainability training and education.
  • Based on the performance from January to December 2023.