Sustainability Policy and Materiality (Important Issues)

Our Group has established a Sustainability Policy to work on initiatives for realizing a sustainable society.
We have also identified material issues in our business operations and set sustainability targets to achieve by 2030.

Sustainability Policy

Yamatane Corporation

In line with our motto, “Trust Above All,” Yamatane Group’s corporate philosophy is to contribute to the realization of a prosperous society through its business.

In addition, we have established our corporate message "Supporting your sustainability".

We believe that Yamatane Group's raison d'ete is to support the sustainability of all stakeholders, including clients, shareholders, and employees, by deepening trustful relationships as a partner company and always moving forward together with our clients and society.

By basing our conduct on the ideas of our corporate philosophy and corporate message and putting them into practice, we strive to contribute to both realizing a sustainable society and improving our corporate value in a sustainable manner.

Action Guidelines

We will establish a long-term vision, identify issues from the perspective of sustainability of the environment, society, and economy to achieve the vision, and work on solving those issues through our business.
We will work on enhancing our offensive and defensive governance and developing organizational foundations to support the success of diverse human resources.
We will appropriately disclose information and engage in active dialogue with stakeholders.
We will work on realizing a sustainable society throughout the value chain by strengthening partnerships.

Established May 14, 2021

Identifying Material Issues

We set our priority themes through the following process:

Material Issue Identification Process Priority Themes

Material Issue Identification Process
- STEP01
  
  Creating a List of Potential Issues
  
  We identified potential issues based on international standards such as ISO 26000 and SASB, ESG rating criteria, SDGs, plus Yamatane’s management challenges and industry issues.
- STEP02
  
  Identifying and Prioritizing Material Issues by Business
  
  We identified issues in each business unit’s value chain using the candidate list. We assessed the identified issues for business importance and social importance, identifying those high in both dimensions as material issues for each business.
- STEP03
  
  Identifying the Yamatane Group’s Material Issues
  
  We consolidated each business’s material issues and established the Yamatane Group’s material issues after deliberation by the Management Committee and the Board of Directors.
Priority Themes
- EEnvironment
  - Promote eco-friendly business
    Materiality (Important Issues)
    - Reduce greenhouse gas emissions
    - Reduce energy consumption
    - Control waste and hazardous substances
    2030 goal
    ・Reduce GHG emissions: 50% or more from FY2013
- SSocial
  - Improve quality of products and services
    Material Issues
    - Offer safe and reliable products and services
    - Promote health and safety
    - Protect personal information and maintain advanced data security
    - Manage risks
    2030 goal
    ・Serious occupational accidents/ incidents*1: 0
    
    ・Have all sites certified for ISO 9001 (commercial warehouses / rice mills)
    
    ・Personal information leakage incidents: 0
    
    ※1 Serious occupational accidents/incidents
    (1) Death, diseases (possibly) requiring extended care, injuries (possibly) resulting in physical impairment, and specified communicable diseases
    (2) Work-related disasters that resulted in death, injury, or infection of three or more workers at one time (including those not accompanied by lost worktime)
  - Celebrate diverse human resources and support their success
    Material Issues
    - Reform workstyles by improving productivity
    - Develop and train human resources
    - Support the success of diverse human resources including women
    - Prevent discrimination and be considerate to the socially disadvantaged
    2030 goal
    ・Ratio of annual paid leave taken: 80% or more
    
    ・Ratio of female managers*2: 20% or more
    
    ・Empower mid-career employees
    
    ※2 Scope: Yamatane Corporation
  - Develop local communities, farming regions, and agriculture
    Material Issues
    - Participate in community efforts and contribute to their development
    2030 goal
    ・Contribute to community-based cultural activities
    
    ・Further government-private partnerships in the wake of large-scale disasters
    
    ・Build a consortium among places of production, governments, and business partners
  - Promote sustainable rice procurement
    Material Issues
    - Procure materials sustainably and use them efficiently
    2030 goal
    ・Realize sustainable farming by establishing brand value at places of production
- GGovernance
  - Enhance corporate governance
    Material Issues
    - Ensure sound management, pursue efficiency, improve transparency, and maintain reproducibility
    - Manage risks
    - Appropriately disclose information
    2030 goal
    ・The Board of Directors monitor risks and opportunities and address them appropriately
    
    ・Cases of serious non-compliance: 0