The DIC Group's Sustainability Program
Amid rising environmental concerns, including climate change, and increasingly urgent social imperatives, companies today face an ever-more diverse array of challenges, including rising awareness of the need to achieve sustainability in a manner that takes into account the environment, ecosystems and socioeconomic issues. The DIC Group launched its CSR program in fiscal year 2007. Having further clarified the overall direction of related initiatives as “sustainable growth,” effective from fiscal year 2014 the Group changed the designation used across its program from “CSR” to “sustainability.” In fiscal year 2018, DIC established the ESG Unit, a specialized department to further expand Group ESG initiatives worldwide. In line with its basic sustainability policy, the DIC Group promotes a variety of sustainability initiatives worldwide and works to maintain an accurate grasp of social imperatives pertaining to ESG-related issues.
Basic Sustainability Policy
The DIC Group is dedicated to conducting its business while retaining a strong commitment to five key concepts: preserving safety and health, managing risks, ensuring fair business practices and respect for diversity and human rights, maintaining harmony with the environment and advancing its protection, and creating value for society through innovation and contributing to ongoing economic growth. DIC Group employees will continue working to deliver the value that its stakeholders—including its customers, suppliers, local communities, shareholders and investors, and employees—expect, showing ingenuity and a sense of responsibility. The Group itself will strive to remain an organization that contributes to sustainability for society, as well as to the conservation and improvement of the global environment, by capitalizing on its businesses to achieve unfaltering growth, thereby enhancing its own sustainability.