Sustainability Vision and Management Structure

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Sustainability Vision

Uniting our diverse strengths, we will make our future sustainable and “GENKI” (vibrant) by delivering products and services that are friendly to the environment and society.

* Our “GENKI” concepts date back to 1988, when employee volunteers first launched community contribution projects to help realize a society in which everyone can thrive. Each letter of “GENKI” represents the following themes: G: Governance (Effective Governance Framework), E: Ecology (Ecological Sustainability), N: Next (Next-Generation Products & Solutions), K: Kindness (A Kind Culture Where Everyone Can Prosper), and I: Integrity (Integrity for Society). We utilize these concepts to identify priority issues as one aspect of our ideals for what the Sumitomo Rubber Group should look like in the future.

Sustainability Management Structure

The Sumitomo Business Philosophy, which has been handed down over the course of its 400-year history, lives on in all of the Sumitomo Rubber Group’s business activities. Based on this philosophy, the Group has established the corporate philosophy structure “Our Philosophy.” With this philosophy as the basis for all decision-making, we are working on various activities that contribute to the realization of a sustainable society in accordance with the Long-Term Sustainability Policy: “Driving Our Future Challenge 2050” that looks to the world of 2050 and beyond.

Sustainability Vision

To promote sustainability management, the Sustainability Promotion Committee, which is chaired by the officer in charge of sustainability and consists of officers in charge of respective divisions as its members, meets twice a year to enforce Group-wide policies and monitor the progress on priority issues. We will continue to strengthen our sustainability initiatives through monitoring and reviews by management in the Committee and build a solid foundation for our business that supports sustainable growth, thereby contributing to the realization of a sustainable society. All matters deliberated or reported at the Committee will be reported to the Board of Directors. In particular, for each theme that requires action taken by s cross-sectoral organization, a subcommittee has been established with the approval of the Sustainability Promotion Committee. These subcommittees are collectively called the Sustainability Promotion Working Group. Each working group, consisting of management and member divisions, is responsible for planning and promoting activities and reporting to the Sustainability Promotion Committee and the management team, among others.