Sustainability
Management
The AXXZIA Group promotes sustainability management in order to both realize a sustainable society and enhance corporate value.
Sustainability Policy
The AXXZIA Group (hereinafter referred to as "our Group") has adopted the vision of “propose an advanced and an innovative beauty products speedy, flexibly and continuously to make everybody beautiful and happy.” We believe that the underlying global environment and society must be healthy to achieve our vision. With this belief, our Group is committed to addressing environmental and social issues and developing initiatives to resolve them, aiming to realize a sustainable society.
1. Addressing Environmental Issues
- We strive to preserve the global environment by reducing the environmental impact of our business activities through the procurement of sustainable raw materials, energy and resource conservation, and other measures.
- We are aware of the risks of climate change and strive to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to realize a decarbonized society.
2. Maximizing Human Resource Value
- We respect differences in gender, nationality, age, and other attributes and perspectives, and strive to foster a corporate culture in which all employees can maximize their individuality and abilities and play an active role.
We also respect diverse work styles and strive to create a safe and comfortable work environment. - We promote the development of our employees' abilities and aim to build a professional team where each and every employee can utilize their expertise and strengths.
3. Strengthening Governance
- We comply with domestic and international laws, regulations, and social norms, while further strengthening corporate governance and striving for fair and highly transparent management.
- We strive to build a relationship of trust with all stakeholders through timely and appropriate information disclosure and responsible dialogue.
Sustainability Promotion System
Having established a Sustainability Committee in August 2023 for medium- and long-term enhancement of corporate value, the aim is to support planning and implementation of sustainability policy and strategy inside the organization and promote sustainability efforts related to the environment, society and governance, while also examining risk associated with climate change.
Sustainability Committee meetings are held quarterly, and the Committee is formed by the representative director who acts as the chairperson, a full-time director, a full-time corporate auditor, and an executive officer. Measures and issues regarding sustainability risk will be considered and discussed, the implementation and effects of countermeasures will be measured and evaluated, and the end results will be reported regularly to the Board of Directors, which supervises and monitors the Sustainability Committee.
Each department in our group identifies, analyzes and evaluates risks. The identified sustainability risks and opportunities are then considered and discussed by the Sustainability Committee, and the situation is reported to the Board of Directors.
Materiality Identification Process
We have identified the ‘materiality’ (important issues) that we should focus on in 2024.
The process to identify the materialities is as follows.
| Step 1 Identification of environmental and social issues |
We identified issues to be considered with reference to ISO26000, GRI standards, SDGs, and the materialities of other companies in the industry. |
|---|---|
| Step 2 Evaluation of extracted issues |
We evaluated the issues we extracted based on the two axes of "importance to stakeholders" and "importance to the AXXZIA Group," and selected the important items. |
| Step3 Approval |
We discussed and obtained approval from the Sustainability Committee for the selected important items, which have been identified as materiality. |
Materiality and Themes for Initiatives
The materialities identified by the Group and the themes for materiality initiatives are as follows.
| Materiality | Themes for Initiatives |
|---|---|
| Reduce environmental burden | Countermeasures for climate change |
| Conserve and efficiently use water and forest resources | |
| Reduce waste | |
| Sustainable product development | Procure raw materials in a sustainable and responsible manner |
| Adopt sustainable packaging materials | |
| Diversity & Inclusion | Hire and appoint employees regardless of attributes such as gender or nationality, and foster a workplace culture that embraces diversity |
| Respect human rights | |
| Sustainable corporate growth by maximizing personnel value | Develop human resources |
| Increase employee engagement | |
| Strengthen governance | Promote fair and highly transparent management |
| Ensure appropriate information security and personal information management |
Materiality and Short- and Mid-term Objectives
We have established the following short- and medium-term goals related to materiality.
We will promote efforts to achieve these goals and review them as necessary.
| Materiality | Indicators | Target | Year of achievement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reduce environmental burden | CO2 emissions and water use measurements, understanding current status | Measure and understand | FY2025 |
| Sustainable product development | Establish a sustainable procurement policy | Establish the policy | FY2025 |
| Percentage of FSC-certified paper used in new products | 100% | FY2025 | |
| Adoption of containers made of eco-friendly materials | Selection of materials with reduced environmental impact |
FY2025 | |
| Diversity & Inclusion | Percentage of female managers | 40-50% | Every year (on an ongoing basis) |
| Eruboshi certification | Obtain certification | FY2027 | |
| Sustainable corporate growth by maximizing personnel value | Introduction of talent management system | Introduce and start operation | FY2025 |
| Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organization certification | Obtain certification | FY2027 | |
| Strengthen governance | Conduct Board of Directors effectiveness evaluation | Conduct evaluation | FY2027 |
| Renewal of Privacy Mark certification | Every year (on an ongoing basis) | Every year |
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