Amvis Holdings, Inc.
Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2022-10 to 2023-09)
Reporting Period: 2022-10 to 2023-09
Environmental Metrics
Carbon Intensity:0.26 (t-CO2/million yen) in FY2023
ESG Focus Areas
- Realizing a society without regional disparities in healthcare
- Achieving operations in harmony with nature
- Building a workplace that invigorates all workers
- Earning further trust from society and local communities
Environmental Achievements
- Promoting paperless operations and use cloud-based systems for accounting and electronic contracts
- Working to reduce food waste by introducing a cook-chill system
- Working toward carbon neutrality and aiming to achieve zero emissions by 2050
Social Achievements
- Directly employs people with disabilities
- Aims to maximize women’s abilities by increasing the percentage of women members of the Management Meeting to 50%
- Provides equal opportunities for compensation, education, and promotion without regard to gender, nationality, disability, or other factors
- Fosters a work-life balance by utilizing remote working and flextime systems
Governance Achievements
- Established the Nomination and Compensation Committee and the Special Committee separately from the Board of Directors, the Audit & Supervisory Board, and the Management Meeting
- Conducts training to ensure compliance with legal standards and training to improve the quality of work, as well as insider-related training
- Established a hotline system for employees to discuss problems and concerns
Climate Goals & Targets
Long-term Goals:
- Achieve zero emissions by 2050
Medium-term Goals:
- Further expand the scale of the Ishinkan business by opening new facilities in a wide range of areas
Environmental Challenges
- Risks related to the opening of new facilities (competition, regulations, force majeure)
- Risks related to securing, training, and managing human resources (shortage of qualified personnel)
- Risks related to dependence on a specific person (Representative Director Keiichi Shibahara)
- Risks related to liquidity of the Company’s shares
- Risks related to natural disasters, mass infections, and accidents
- Risks related to price hikes (inflation)
- Risks related to legal restrictions on business (regulatory changes)
- Risks related to designation, required for business (license revocation)
- Risks related to information management (information leaks)
- Risks related to long-term lease contracts
- Risks related to the impairment of fixed assets
- Risks related to M&A
- Compliance-related risks
- Other risks (criminal acts, administrative procedures)
Mitigation Strategies
- Multifaceted market research and multiple staff involvement in facility opening decisions
- Active recruiting and examination of recruiting methods effectiveness
- Establishing a management structure that does not rely excessively on a specific person
- Working to improve the liquidity of the Company’s shares
- Developing a crisis management system, implementing safety measures (fire prevention, infection control)
- Raising patient payments
- Ensuring compliance with laws and regulations
- Prior consultations and discussions with local governments, compliance with standards and guidance
- Educating employees on information management, confidentiality oaths, access restrictions
- Setting terms and conditions in contracts, maintaining close communication with owners
- Thorough management of facility profitability, proactive measures for unprofitable facilities
- Sufficient time for due diligence in M&A transactions
- Internal reporting system, education and training on compliance
- Various measures to mitigate risks