Contribution to local communities

Through the use of groundwater, the Calbee Group’s factories reap the benefits of forests in areas with water sources. The Calbee Group engages in forest protection activities in the Calbee Mina Mina Forest (Chitose, Hokkaido), Aichi Kaisho Forest (Seto, Aichi Prefecture), Calbee Shiga Konze Forest (Ritto, Shiga Prefecture), and Calbee Tochigi Nature’s Gift Forest (Nasukarasuyama, Tochigi Prefecture), Nature’s Gift Calbee Kappa Forest (Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture) with the aim of developing and maintaining sustainable water resources. Employees themselves perform forest protection work, allowing them to get directly reacquainted with the goodness of nature and ponder the responsibilities involved in the use of precious groundwater.

The Calbee Group encourages its employees to participate as volunteers in sporting events held in local communities. By working with local residents to make events successful, we help to revitalize local communities and promote healthy lifestyles.

The Calbee Group works with food banks and the Japan National Council of Social Welfare to make effective use of its excess products. By doing so, we support people who are financially struggling or have been affected by disasters, and we can also reduce food loss at the same time. We donated approximately 670,000 bags of our products in FY2022.

In the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, approximately 1,800 children are speculated to have lost parent/s. The MICHINOKU Future Fund was established to help children who lost one or both of their parents in the disaster to enter universities or receive technical education. Calbee is one of the companies which established the MICHINOKU Future Fund. Thanks to the tremendous support from the general public, donations to the MICHINOKU Scholarship Fund reached the target amount we needed for the future, so we stopped accepting new donations in February 2021. We will continue to offer help to scholarship recipients by organizing social functions and providing opportunities to meet the fund sponsors while they are in higher education.

Calbee supports the activities of the Japan Association for the World Food Programme (JAWFP) and has been a JAWFP councilor since 2019. JAWFP is an official support desk in Japan for the World Food Programme (WFP) whose mission is to end hunger and poverty. In FY2022, we supported Walk the World and Gochisosama Challenge. We also made donations through our own AAO activities.

• AAO activities

Calbee Tanawat Co., Ltd. in Thailand invites its staff to suggest corporate social initiative ideas. In FY2022, the company chose the following eight ideas and made them a reality.

1. Samut Prakan Province: An ambulance was repaired and damaged rescue equipment was replaced.
2. Chiang Rai Province: The school cafeteria at a local school was renovated.
3. Nakhon Phanom Province: The school building and learning facilities at a local school were improved.
4. Sakon Nakhon Province: The access road to a local school was built and the landscape in the surrounding area was improved.
5. Udon Thani Province: The school cafeteria at a local school was renovated.
6. Phichit Province: A warehouse was built in a local village.
7. Buriram Province: Toilet facilities were provided at a local temple.
8. Buriram Province: The road leading to the entrance to a local temple was improved.