Since our establishment, the Group has advanced “Contributing to Society through Our Business Activities” as our Corporate Mission. For many years, we have conducted our business activities to contribute to society’s well-being by actively providing unique value-added solutions to our customers based on our original ideas and means, and with a desire to use those results to grow and prosper together.
With our Corporate Mission in mind, to promote sustainability initiatives, on January 1, 2022, we established the Sustainability Committee.
To promote sustainability at the Group, the Sustainability Committee deliberates items for evaluation including basic policy and targets to promote sustainability.
❶ We have listed relevant issues that consider the Group’s business environment and that refer to international frameworks and standards.
❷ Of the relevant issues identified, the Sustainability Committee has discussed and evaluated the importance for the “level of importance” to our stakeholders and society and the “level of effect” on the Company’s business.
❸ Items evaluated as having high importance are identified as materiality, and a plan for initiatives is being formulated while organizing and assigning priorities to the issues.
❹ We conduct continuous evaluations in the event that materiality requires review while considering our business strategy.
Since the start of 2000, the Group has considered ourselves an advanced sustainability-focused trading company and positioned “energy saving,” “weight saving,” and “labor saving” as important fields, and these fields are now becoming the Company’s strengths.
We will continue to expand sales of renewable energy and clean energy related products (solar energy, storage batteries, electric vehicles, V2H) as well as energy-saving products (LED lights, zero-energy houses).
We are also proposing materials with a reduced environmental burden (reduced plastic) and making recycling proposals.
In addition to complying with relevant environmental laws and regulations and ISO14001, we are promoting activities to reduce resource use in our business activities, mainly at our offices.
Furthermore, we see the removal from the supply chain due to delays in our response to environmental issues as a risk and are working to improve the status of our environmental management by confirming our customers’ demand levels and evaluating a sequential response.
In terms of our initiatives to combat climate change, we have plans to set targets linked to our next medium-term management plan. We will also perform continuous evaluations mainly at the Sustainability Committee, as we cooperate with all our stakeholders to realize a sustainable society.
The Company positions the development of career human assets with management capabilities and expertise as an important issue, and in 2021 we fundamentally reformed our personnel system. Going forward, we will carry out reforms step by step by conducting job-class specific training sessions.
Additionally, we are evaluating initiatives to create a work environment in which diverse human assets including women, foreigners, and mid-career hires can flourish even more.
Moreover, we are moving forward with evaluations to prepare a human rights policy.
Because the Group’s most important resource is “people,” we believe that creating and maintaining a work environment in which anyone can comfortably work is an essential element in the Company’s growth. We are moving forward with the formulation of necessary policies to promote workers taking various leave, one of their rights, to promote the good health of our employees (reducing overtime and offering mental healthcare), and to establish a “Takashima general council of Safety and Health” particularly in business divisions that contract construction work.
Furthermore, by conducting regular surveys with our employees, the Company measures employee engagement and creates plans to carry out policies to increase engagement.
Takashima is committed to “Integrity” at all times.
The credit that we have accumulated over many years is the foundation for the Group’s sustainable development thus far.To realize the Group’s Corporate Mission of “Contributing to Society through Our Business Activities,” all our employees constantly approach their business activities with our Corporate Value of “Integrity” as their basic premise, which has allowed us to build irreplaceable credit.
That said, impropriety such as compliance violations which do not align with our corporate value of “Integrity” greatly damage credit in the Company. Damage to the credit in the Group from society, our customers, and our employees means that the most important thing to the Group has been lost, not only short-term losses, but also large losses in the medium- to long-term. In creating “credit and trust,” the core of our business, legal and regulatory compliance is our highest priority. The Group has shared “compliance messages” and our “Anti-Monopoly Act Compliance Pledge” internally. In addition to stipulating and creating awareness about our “Basic Compliance Rules” and “Compliance Code of Conduct” as our behavioral guidelines, we have established the Compliance Committee as a promotional body as we work to strengthen our compliance system.
The Group has formulated rules for the appropriate management of risks that could have a serious impact on the Group’s business. Based on these rules, all departments are responsible for managing related risks in their respective division of duties, and all persons responsible for organizations including business groups are responsible for performing risk management in their respective organizations.
Furthermore, the Risk Management Committee performs comprehensive evaluations and deliberations on risks.
As a result of the evaluations, risks for which more focused policies are required are considered “important risk management items,” and both those policies and the status of initiatives are reported to the Board of Directors.
