Materiality

The Calbee Group uses natural ingredients in our products. Currently, there are a wide range of social issues in the business environment, such as environmental issues, climate change, pollution from plastic products, sustainable supply chains, and the declining birth rate combined with a growing life expectancy.

If we do not address these environmental and social issues, the raw materials used by the Calbee Group will become depleted, we will not be able to procure them sustainably, and our business will not be viable.

By placing the goal of realizing a sustainable society at the core of our business, we aim to achieve both “social value” in the form of resolving environmental and social issues, and “economic value” that will help grow Calbee’s business.
In order to ensure that our business growth is sustainable into the future, it is necessary to recognize and assess the impact that these social issues have on our business activities and clearly identify the challenges that we should address.

The Calbee Group’s core strategy for sustainability management is to tackle priority issues from the standpoint of materiality.
In May 2020, materiality was identified from two perspectives: “importance to stakeholders” and “importance to the company.” The Sustainability Committee is taking the lead in promoting this, while each subcommittee is responsible for implementing strategies.

Calbee Group has re-identified five material issues and established 13 priority themes for 2022. The background to these issues includes a globally expanding value chain, the growing importance of global warming countermeasures and natural capital for sustainable procurement, and the human rights issues that arise as a result of addressing these issues.

• Materiality Map
• Sustainability Management Promotion Framework
• Materiality Identification / Review Process

Materiality Map

In order to review the Materiality Map, we took into consideration the results of the analysis of external evaluations conducted in Step 2, and re-evaluated each of the social issues identified based on their importance to stakeholders and to Calbee, which are indicated on the vertical and horizontal axes, respectively,

Importance to Calbee
Importance to stakeholders		Achieving carbon neutrality Reducing the environmental burden caused by plastics Promoting a recycling society	Assurance of food safety Contribution to healthy lifestyles Sustainable production of raw materials Responsible procurement that respects human rights and the environment Environment and People Friendly Logistics
		Responding to workstyle diversity (changes due to an aging population and declining birthrate, pandemic)	Conservation of natural capital Providing new values in response to diversifying consumer needs awareness Promotion of diversity and inclusion
		Contribution to local communities

• Contribute to healthy and diverse lifestyles
• Progress of sustainable agriculture
• Co-create a sustainable supply chain
• Caring for the Earth
• Promote active roles for all employees based on diversity

Sustainability Management Promotion Framework

In December 2019, we established a Sustainability Committee including an external expert as advisor. The Sustainability Committee determines the Calbee Group’s materiality, discusses and reviews the roadmap for the priority themes promoted by the subcommittees, and reviews the status of progress on them. The results of these activities are regularly reported to the Board of Directors.

Board of Directors

Advice

Report

Sustainability Committee

Theme identification/monitoring

Strategy decisions/progress reports

Priority theme subcommittees (promoting execution of strategy)

Priority Themes and Major Measures Based on Materiality

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Priority Themes and Major Measures Based on Materiality

Materiality identification / review process

Materiality identification / review process are described below.

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