Environmental Management

Environmental Management Promotion System

With the awareness that coexistence with nature is one of the most important issues facing all of humankind, back in 1991 the Suntory Group established the Environmental Department and Environment Committee. In 2010, Suntory Holdings Ltd. created the Environmental Sustainability Strategy Department, whose purpose is to ensure that business and ecology are promoted by the entire Group. The Division seeks to reinforce environmental management at Group companies based on the Basic Principles of Suntory's Environmental Policy. The Global Communication Committee established in April 2016 set the construction of a global environmental management system as an important theme in addition to strengthening environmental management at Group companies in Japan. The Global Communication Committee established the Sustainability Strategy Department, which evolved from the Environmental Sustainability Strategy Department, in April 2017 while restructuring the Sustainability Promotion Department, which promotes sustainable management, in April 2018. The Global Sustainability Committee works at formulating strategic plans and on important issues to promote sustainable management and checks progress. We strive toward making it so that all our corporate activities, including the business activities of the Suntory Group, contribute to the improvement of the sustainability of the overall value chain.

Suntory Group's Environmental Management Promotion System

Promotion of ISO14001 Certification Acquisition Throughout the Group

We have actively advanced the acquisition of the international ISO14001 certification standard at each Group company as one method to continually evolve by integrating business and environmental activities. With the completion in acquiring the integrated certification and the start of operations at Group companies* in Japan, we are working to enhance management to abide by laws at sites with a low environmental burden and conduct even more efficient environmental management with these sites as targets from 2017. We are in the process of obtaining certifications at overseas Group companies with focus on our production sites. We are 70% complete in certifying overseas Group company production sites as of 2019.
We are enhancing the links between each department involved with the value change of businesses at each Suntory Group company to promote business activities from an environmental perspective in all stages from the procurement of ingredients to disposal.

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  Group companies complying to the Japanese SOX Act

Initiatives at Restaurant-related Group Companies

We are acquiring the ISO14001 integrated certification for the headquarters and all stores at restaurant-related Group companies who are increasing their number of establishments in Japan in an effort to save energy and water, reduce food loss, and enhance recycling.

ISO14001 screening

Introducing Environmental Accounting

We use and disclose the content of environmental accounting that conforms to the 2005 Environmental Accounting Guidelines of the Ministry of the Environment. Environment accounting serves as an important tool for periodic quantitative evaluations of our environmental conservation initiatives in our business activities.