Materiality

The Group considers “contributing to the creation of a sustainable society” to be one of its key management strategies.
Taking a long-term vision of the Group’s businesses from an ESG perspective, we have identified six important issues (materiality) based on our consideration of issues that management ought to give priority to among all social issues in existence.
By setting quantitative targets and target fiscal years for each materiality and aiming to achieve them, we will continue to create new value with our diverse stakeholders and contribute to the creation of a sustainable society.

Materiality identification and review process

Materiality identification and review process

Materiality of Mitsuuroko Group

Contribution to the environment

Mitsuuroko Group is aware that it receives various benefits from the Earth, including the resources necessary for its business activities, and that it is its responsibility to preserve the global environment in a better state. The purpose of Mitsuuroko Group’s existence is to build a better society through its daily corporate activities, and it places utmost importance on making proactive efforts to solve social issues.
As measures to address climate change, which is a common challenge facing the world, Mitsuuroko Group is working to reduce the CO2 emissions from its business activities and those from its customers’ use of products and services, as well as contribute to the improvement of energy efficiency, aiming to achieve carbon neutrality by FY2050.

Contribution to the environment

Contribution to local communities

The business operation of Mitsuuroko Group has been supported by many stakeholders until now. Within these stakeholders, it must not forget the indispensable role of local communities.
Mitsuuroko Group has traditionally built relationships of trust with local communities through not only its business relationships but also through connecting with them in other ways, such as by participating in community cleanup activities and events as well as charity activities and sports. Mitsuuroko Group aims to coexist and prosper together with these local communities through working as hard as possible on initiatives that it can and should do in serving them as a corporate citizen, no matter how small.
Contribution to local communities

Thorough compliance

In the management philosophy, Mitsuuroko Group has set forth that it consistently conducts our business with integrity and from the customer’s perspective, advocating the need for legal compliance in management and business operation. While thoroughly maintaining internal controls that have been effective and appropriate so far, we maintain our legal compliance system through means such as conducting various types of compliance training, producing original training videos on non-compliance cases, and ensuring employees carry compliance cards.
Going forward, we will continue to strive for sincere management and business activities based on high ethical standards, always from the perspective of corporate social responsibility.
Thorough compliance

Enhancement of safety and disaster response measures

Safety is an indispensable element because of the nature of all businesses Mitsuuroko Group promotes.With its mainstay energy-related products directly linked to our lives as lifelines, Mitsuuroko Group’s mission is to contribute to society through the stable supply of energy as well as safe, secure, and prompt logistics services.
In light of the experience and lessons of the Great East Japan Earthquake and the impact of frequent large-scale natural disasters occurring in recent years, such as typhoons, floods, and heat waves, it recognizes the necessity and importance of disaster prevention and is working to enhance disaster response measures, including disaster prevention measures and support systems, BCP, etc.
Enhancement of safety and disaster response measures

Health-focused management

Understanding that human resources are our greatest asset, Mitsuuroko Group considers the health management of employees, who are the source of its future growth as an important management issue.Based on the “Mitsuuroko Group Health Care Declaration,” it respects the fact that each individual faces a variety of life stages, and it supports its employees in enabling them to autonomously and proactively manage their health through a variety of initiatives and information dissemination.
As a leading company in health-focused management, it will continue to provide support and engage in even more comprehensive initiatives through further promoting physical and mental health to prevent illnesses, and promoting work styles in line with the new normal, including those that address the COVID-19 pandemic.
Health-focused management

Promotion of diversity

Mitsuuroko Group has grown from its principle of evolving and changing with the times as an “environmentally adaptive enterprise” whose subsistence derives from requirements of respective eras. Going forward, rather than having to catch up and adapt to its surroundings, it must propose solutions and create new and beneficial conditions to achieve sustainable growth. It is therefore essential that Mitsuuroko Group fosters a corporate culture that embraces diversity as a strength, creating an environment that does not discriminate based on employment status, nationality, gender, age, or whether one is a new graduate or mid-career hire.
Mitsuuroko Group aspires to shaping a new era by being “an enterprise that creates favorable cycle” and “persistently seeking change.”
Promotion of diversity

Group-wide KPIs, targets, and progress against materiality

Group-wide KPIs, targets, and progress against materiality