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As part of our sustainability management, we are 1) increasing investment in human resources, 2) enhancing governance, and 3) promoting environmental measures.

Under our human resource strategy, we will mainly promote human resource development and personnel system reform. With regard to human resource development, we will enhance various education and training programs, but also believe it is important to promote initiatives that enable employees to see their growth. Regarding personnel system reform, in addition to raising overall wages and enhancing employee benefits, we will break away from a seniority-based personnel and promotion system and pursue a merit-based personnel promotion system, which will lead to employees feeling more rewarded and satisfied. In addition, we will continue our efforts to promote health and productivity management, promote the participation of women and non-Japanese employees, and increase employee engagement.

On the governance front, we are working to enhance questioning and deliberations at Board of Directors meetings. In order to invigorate discussion of management strategies amid increasing uncertainty about the economic outlook, we took measures in FY2024 such as delegating authority to the Management Committee and regularly holding opinion exchange sessions for outside directors.
We will strive to further improve the operation of the Board of Directors through such means as further enhancing discussions on medium- to long-term management strategies, enriching discussions on risk management, addressing sustainability challenges, and incorporating non-financial information perspectives. We also intend to further clarify the division of roles between management and execution, and strengthen supervisory functions for the Board of Directors.

In terms of environmental measures, we will continue our efforts to reduce CO₂ emissions by promoting the installation of solar power generation equipment, mainly at Fujibo Ehime’s Nyugawa Plant. Furthermore, in addition to strengthening our existing efforts aimed at saving energy and introducing renewable energy, we will also set CO₂ reduction targets for 2030 and develop measures to improve our CDP score (a score for evaluating corporate measures on climate change, water security, and forests by an international NGO).

To our stakeholders

Lastly, we are going to enhance information disclosure for our shareholders and other stakeholders to facilitate their understanding of our growth strategy. We will pursue initiatives based on ROIC management, with an emphasis on shareholder returns. We also intend to increase opportunities for communication with stakeholders and work together to realize new value creation. We appreciate your continued understanding and support.

Masahide Inoue
Representative Director and President