Sustainability Management
The Calbee Group remains committed to addressing medium- to long-term challenges facing the environment, society, and economy through co-creation with stakeholders and to practicing sustainability management that creates new shared value.
Founding Philosophy
To be a company that gathers knowledge in order to
create products that are healthy, safe, and affordable,
and which utilize unused food resources.
During World War II, founder Takashi Matsuo began making and selling dumplings by extracting germ from rice bran, which at the time was usually discarded as waste, and blending it with sweet potatoes or wild plants. The food supply at the time was severe, so many people were relieved to have access to such nutritional food. Our founder’s desire to utilize unused resources to create food products that contribute to healthy lives is something that remains at the core of the Calbee Group’s values to this day.
Founder Takashi Matsuo (on the right)
Our Value
- Corporate Message
- Corporate Philosophy
- We are committed to harnessing nature’s gifts, to bringing taste and fun, and contributing to healthy life styles.
- Group Vision
- We must earn respect, admiration and love firstly of our customers, suppliers and distributors, secondly of our employees and their families, thirdly of the communities, and finally of our stockholders.
Materiality
In 2020, the Calbee Group identified materiality as a priority issue in conducting sustainability management under Our Value.
Since then, the external environment related to sustainability has changed, with the spread of new-type coronavirus infectious diseases, the emergence of human rights issues, and the increasing importance of natural capital.
We analyzed changes in the external environment and re-identified five materiality in December 2022.
Sustainability Management Promotion Framework
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.
Report
Theme identification and monitoring
Strategy determination and progress reports
Sustainability Activities in the Calbee Group