With the aim of obtaining feedback from the perspective of external stakeholders that could be incorporated into our plans for the next fiscal year and onward, we held sessions with external experts on our ESG Materiality revised in March 2025, KPIs for 2030, and KPIs for 2027. Our sustainability promotion staff participated in the sessions, gaining insights from the experts regarding issues faced in their promotional activities.

Major opinions

  • The updated Materiality and KPIs are well balanced overall, and no signs of regression are seen from the KPIs for 2024 to KPIs for 2027.
  • “Employee happiness” and “Happiness of children” as areas of Materiality incorporate the element of well-being and are excellent approaches, but I’d like to see them being evolved over the long term in the broad sense by considering their time frame and scope.

At the discussion meeting

External expert (left): Minoru Matsubara, Chief Sustainability Officer, Managing Executive Officer, Responsible Investment, Resona Asset Management Co., Ltd.

External expert (right): Akitsugu Era, Partner, Brunswick Group, LLC.