Climate Change Data

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

• Carbon emissions reduction
• Food loss reduction
• Recycling
• Employment of people with disabilities
• Local production and consumption
• Health and productivity management

Environmental Achievements

• Initiatives to achieve a 46% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2050
• Reduction of food loss, food recycling, and PET bottle recycling

Social Achievements

• Promoting the employment of people with disabilities (Inageya Wing Co., Ltd.)
• Promoting local production and local consumption (INAGEYA DREAM FARM CO. LTD.)
• Responses to customers who have difficulties shopping at physical stores (mobile supermarket Tokushimaru)
• Fundraising activities at stores (support for guide dog training)
• Recognized in the 2024 Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations Recognition Program

Governance Achievements

• Establishment of the Inageya Group Compliance Committee
• Establishment of helplines for compliance-related consultations and whistleblowing
• Regular meetings to exchange opinions with the Audit and Supervisory Board, Accounting Auditor, and the Representative Director

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• Rising raw material and service prices
• Increasingly diverse buying patterns among consumers
• Intensifying competition in the food supermarket industry
• Rising operating costs due to raw material prices, wages, and utilities
• Increased handling of food products by other industries (e-commerce, drugstores)
• Cost-push inflation due to wage increases and rising costs of imported resources
• Concerns over interest rate increases
• Intensifying competition across business formats
• Aging and declining population

Mitigation Strategies

• Strengthening “sale of the day” and point card measures to increase customer traffic
• Efforts to improve efficiency, including self-checkout systems and electronic shelf labels
• Strengthening the development of online supermarkets
• Expanding the service area of the Tokushimaru mobile supermarket service
• Accelerating the introduction of semi and full self-checkout systems
• Gradual expansion of TOPVALU private brand products
• Introduction of AEON Pay
• Supply chain reforms, logistics to reduce labor costs, and digital investments
• Launch of the “U.S.M.H. Yachiyo Grocery Center,” a joint logistics center
• Development of “INNER COLOR DELI” sustainable product
• Business partnership with Vietnam's VTI JOINT STOCK COMPANY to focus on IT services
• Expansion of online delivery and Uber Eats service
• Launch of mobile supermarkets
• Expansion of self-checkout and smartphone payments
• Expansion of electronic shelf labels and demand-forecasting ordering systems
• Food drive activities

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Sustainable Products & Innovation

• INNER COLOR DELI

Awards & Recognition

• 2024 Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations Recognition Program