Message from the President

Guided by our corporate philosophy of“Contributing to a healthy and fruitful life for all”, the Nisshin Seifun Group has delivered high-quality products and services to our customers across a wide range of businesses, while driving steady progress toward the realization of a sustainable society.

We play a part in ensuring safe and reliable food supplies, so responding to climate change, realizing sustainable procurement that is considerate of the environment and human rights, and using resources effectively are all important management challenges that directly affect our business continuity. We also recognize our responsibility to address these issues as a member of society. We are taking an approach in which solving social issues in integral to our business growth and we will continue to position the sustainability priorities identified as our materiality at the center of our operations.

On the environmental front, we have positioned tackling climate change as one of our highest priorities and we aim to achieve net zero CO₂ emissions at Group-owned facilities by 2050. We have set the target of a 50% reduction compared with fiscal 2014 levels by 2030 as a waypoint to fulfilling this target and we are working toward this by installing solar power generation equipment, procuring electric power generated using renewable energy, and steadily building our efforts through measures to promote energy efficiency and raise productivity. As our business expands overseas, our global supply chains are becoming increasingly important, so on the social front, we are working to prevent and minimize human rights risks through human rights due diligence, taking into account the supply chains of each business.

We aim to create shared value with society by continuously building on these initiatives to generate cycles in which our business activities contribute to solving social issues. Going forward, we will advance together with stakeholders in order to build a sustainable society while continuing to raise corporate value.

Sustainability priorities (materiality) and areas contributing to the SDGs

Five sustainability priorities (materiality)	Areas contributing to the SDGs
Provide safe and healthy food and responsible consumer information
Enable secure and sustainable raw material procurement
Efficiently handle product and packaging waste
Prepare for climate change and water resource issues
Provide work environments that are healthy and fulfilling