January, 2005

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Suntory Ltd.

Suntory received 3 awards on the 8th “Environmental Communication Awards”,
including “Grand Award for Sustainability Report”.

Suntory Ltd. (Head Office: Osaka, President: Nobutada Saji) won “The 8th Environmental Communication Awards” (Sponsored by Global Environmental Forum) on environmental report sector for “Environmental Report Award” and “Grand Award for Sustainability Report”. The awards were accounted on “Suntory Ecoship Report 2004 -Booklet edition-“ and “ Suntory Sustainability Report 2004 - Web Edition- “. Also, it also received “Encouragement Prize” on TV environmental CM for “Bird campaign -Migratory birds version-“. Awarding ceremony is held in Nippon Seinenkan Big Hall (Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo) on the 20th of January, 2005, starting at 1pm.

Suntory published a booklet, “Ecoship Report”, which summarized Suntory's environmental activities in March 2004. The contents was adopted from “Suntory Sustainability Report”, and wrapped up in easily comprehensible form for general customers. Adding to this, Suntory posted “Sustainability Report” on its own website in May, targeting for wide range of Suntory's stakeholders. The contents summarized Suntory's environmental activities and other social activities in details.

Suntory will continue to promote environmental communication proactively by pursuing more on social and environmental activities and improving on information disclosure.

•About Environmental Communication Awards
Environmental Communication Awards (Renamed from Environmental Report since 2004) is sponsored by Global Environmental Forum and was first started in the year of 1997. The award is also supported by Japanese Ministry of Environment and has become one of the most famous awards in Japan for environmental reports. It is only awarded to companies who published excellent environmental reports or environmental advertisements.

▼Contents of the Awards received by Suntory Ltd.

The 8th Environmental Communication Awards.
Environmental Reports sector
“Grand Award for Environmental Reports” & “ Grand Award for Sustainability Reports”
Environmental TV Advertisement sector
“Encouragement Prize”

*Reviews are posted on website of Global Environmental Forum(http://www.gef.or.jp/eco-com/)

▼Sponsored by

Global Environmental Forum

▼Supported by

Ministry of Environmental , Mainichi Shimbun, Nippon Keizai Shimbun

▼Total Application

All 426 applications registered. (319 for Environmental Reports sector, 13 for Environmental Activities sector, 94 for Environmental TV Advertisement sector)

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•“Sustainability Report”
”Suntory Sustainability Report” has been posted on Suntory's website since 2004. The report is created by following “Environmental Report Guideline, which was published by the Ministry of Environment in Japan, and GRI's “Sustainability Report Guideline”. Suntory has worked on covering all of the items in these guidelines and opened all information regarding on Suntory's environmental, economical and social activities.

The first part of the report introduces relationship between Suntory's business and environment/social, basic policy, compliance, environmental management system and report. Then it follows with individual environmental activities' performance relating to product lifecycle on the 2nd part, and details on social activities on the 3rd part. Also, on the data section, it introduces Suntory's domestic and overseas group companies' activities.

Moreover, the website started to post “The 2nd Sustainability Board” from January 2004. It is aimed to realize sustainable society, by establishing vision of “Suntory's ideal identity in the society for 2015 to 2020” from foremost expert of global environment or social sector. The report took out third person's opinion as well, which enhances its credibility, convincing and readability.

The core of Suntory's CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) has been based on the principle of “Rieki Sanbu” since its establishment. The principle states that Suntory contributes one third of every profit gained to pursue on social responsibility. At the same time, in holding up the company's slogan “Living with Water - Suntory - ”, Suntory has participated on various activities regarding global environment conservation. Moreover, to express of providing customers with safe, reassuring, and high quality products, Suntory posted “Suntory groups' Quality Policy”, pursued compliance management and built group environmental management system.

*GRI(Global Reporting Initiative)
International organization who draws global guideline for environmental, social and economical reports. The organization is composed by individuals and groups from all over the world, who addresses on environmental reports, and it has published “Sustainability Guideline” , such as PERI(Public Environmental Reporting Initiative) and UNEP(United Nations Environmental Plan).