Climate Change Data

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

• Quality Assurance
• Consumer-Oriented Management
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Health Management
• Human Rights
• Sustainable Supply Chain

Environmental Achievements

• World's first successful complete aquaculture of bluefin tuna (circular aquaculture from artificially hatched fish)
• Planning for the construction of an Atlantic salmon land-based aquaculture facility

Social Achievements

• Achieved zero major quality accidents in 2023
• 8 consecutive years of 100% maternity leave rate for female employees, with almost all returning to work
• Received the Minister of State for Internal Affairs Award in the FY2023 Consumer-Oriented Management Excellent Practices Award
• Improved 22 products based on customer feedback
• Established a specialized department for employees with disabilities at headquarters
• Continued efforts to increase the number of jobs for people with disabilities in factories
• Implemented various initiatives to promote work-life balance for employees with children, including the establishment of a support desk

Governance Achievements

• Strengthened the quality assurance system by revising regulations and implementing a new product information management system
• Established a new system for unified management of information from raw materials to product specifications and customer information
• Implemented “Quality Accident Zero” activities to prevent major quality accidents

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• Maintaining up-to-date product specification information and providing customers with speedy product information
• Reducing complaints and troubles that could lead to major accidents
• Ensuring food safety and defense in global food provision
• Improving the quality level of the value chain
• Improving the quality of existing content and enriching the content of quality-related training
• Low registration rate for the supplier survey system (64.0% in 2023)
• Addressing human rights violations in the supply chain, particularly forced labor and human trafficking
• Ensuring compliance with the Supplier Guidelines

Mitigation Strategies

• Conducting on-site audits and providing guidance to manufacturing bases using in-house standards
• Stationing quality assurance personnel in China and Thailand
• Conducting 60 quality-related training sessions for 10,351 employees in FY2023
• Implementing a new system for unified management of information from raw materials to product specifications and customer information
• Developing a new quality management standard and using it in regular audits of manufacturing subcontractors
• Implementing the “Maruha Nichiro Group Guidelines for Employment of Foreign Trainees and Specified Skilled Foreign Workers”
• Conducting human rights training for all domestic group employees and creating a human rights risk map
• Strengthening measures to confirm that procured seafood is not involved in IUU fishing

Supply Chain Management

Supplier Audits: 1000 companies (50.1%) in 2022, 1399 companies (64%) in 2023

Responsible Procurement

• Maruha Nichiro Group Procurement Basic Policy
• Supplier Guidelines
• Guidelines for Employment of Foreign Trainees and Specified Skilled Foreign Workers

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: GRI Standard 416-2, 417-2

Sustainable Products & Innovation

• World's first successful complete aquaculture of bluefin tuna

Awards & Recognition

• Minister of State for Internal Affairs Award in the FY2023 Consumer-Oriented Management Excellent Practices Award