Sustainability Promotion System
and Management

The Daigas Group aims to become a corporate group that helps further the evolution of customers’ livelihoods and businesses. To this end, the management and employees act based on the “Daigas Group Charter of Business Conduct (“the Charter”),” which stipulates the basic concept of our CSR. As the Group's business field expands, the scope of its stakeholders customers, local communities, shareholders, investors, and employees all of whom are affected by our business operations, is expanding further.

In order to recognize the impact our business activities may have on society and the environment, and conduct business while taking such impact into account, the Daigas Group has been promoting CSR activities. Specifically, in 2009, the Group introduced indicators under each chapter of the Charter to promote CSR activities and visualize their processes. In FY2015, we identified important aspects for the Group (materiality) by turning to the opinions of outside knowledgeable people.

In addition, to promote ESG-conscious management in conformity with global standards, which the Long-Term Management Vision advocates, in FY2021, we renamed the CSR Committee the ESG Committee, and the CSR Promotion Council the ESG Council. Since FY2022, we have set new materiality that contributes to the embodiment of the Charter under this promotion system and the achievement of a sustainable society. We are also striving to appropriately assess our initiatives and our progress in achieving the targets for the respective indicators and ensure that the PDCA (plan-do-check-act) management of the activities will work more effectively.

The ESG Council, which consists of executives, deliberates sustainability plans and reports on the results of activities under the supervision of the president. From the viewpoint of integrating the promotion of overall sustainability activities, the Daigas Group has established the ESG Committee, chaired by the Executive in Charge of ESG Promotion (Vice President), who supervises the Group’s sustainability activities. Consisting of the heads of related organizations, the ESG Committee coordinates and advances Group-wide activities to ensure that the activities will be conducted in an appropriate and proactive manner.

The Environment Subcommittee, the Social Contribution Subcommittee, and the Compliance and Risk Management Subcommittee have been established to promote CSR activities in a cross-departmental manner.

All these moves represent the Daigas Group’s efforts to strengthen sustainability activities to live up to higher social expectations for the Group through communication with internal and external stakeholders.

In 2009, the Daigas Group introduced indicators under each chapter of the Charter to promote sustainability activities based on the Charter and to visualize the process. Under the Group’s policy of promoting sustainability, the indicators cover the medium-term period between FY2018 and FY2021.
In FY2022, the indicators under each chapter of the Charter were integrated into materiality indicators, which have been re-established as indicators for new material issues.