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 FY2025).

    • Waste volume to be made into RENU: equivalent to 4.8 million pieces of T-shirts
    • CO2 reduction: 1,491 tons
    • Water usage reduction: 5,018 kiloliters
  • Approximately 6,000 collection points for Wear to Fashion, the clothing recycling service (as of March 2026).
  • 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. At Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, some of the used uniforms from the Expo staff were recycled through this project, contributing to the realization of a circular society.
  • 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 FY2025, sustainability surveys were conducted for 77 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 391 factories.
We strengthened audits and guidance for suppliers by certified experts and in-house qualified personnel in food safety management systems, enabling us to procure and supply safe and reliable food products on a stable basis.
  • 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.

Targets for 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.

Result in FY2025

  • Coffee Beans (certified products): procurement ratio 34%
  • Cacao beans (traceable products): procurement ratio 55%
  • RSPO Certified Palm Products/Oleo chemicals: Palm Oils 38%
    Oleo Chemical Products 63%

Support Achievements to Each Producing Country (Qualitative)

  • Coffee Beans
    To contribute more directly to Ethiopia’s coffee industry, we partnered with related company to donate coffee seedlings.
  • 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. In FY2025, we handled 10,600 t of MSC certified tuna in total.
(Increasing to 9% volume in our total handling)
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 GHG. Handle certified or highly controlled forest products. Ensure a 100% handling ratio of certified or highly controlled forest products. In FY2025, 100% of our Pulp, Woodchips and Wood Products & Materials transactions were handled as certified or highly controlled forest products.
  • 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 the modern slavery issue.
  • We will establish a traceability system to make uncertain raw material procurement supply chains 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 2028 through an original block chain-based traceability system.)
  • We will increase the number of smallholders receiving 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.
  • Implemented sustainability training and education for 8,223 smallholders (based on the performance from January 2025 to December 2025), accumulatively 28,135 smallholders (*based on the performance from January 2021 to December 2025).