Sustainability
Key Sustainability Issues
- Sustainability Material Issues and SDGs
- Process for Identifying Material Issues
- 2023 Medium-Term Sustainability KPI
- Targets and Results of CSR Material Issues
Sustainability Material Issues and SDGs
To earn the trust of our stakeholders and continue to be a company that contributes to achieving a sustainable society, we have identified and categorized sustainability issues and identified our material issues, considering both the impact on Glory and our stakeholders. We have also categorized our material issues by linking them to the SDGs. We will contribute to achieving a sustainable society by sincerely addressing various issues facing the world and promoting materiality initiatives.
Process for Identifying Material Issues
We identified material issues based on the following process and set KPIs and have promoted related initiatives. We also linked the identified material issues to the SDGs to which they contribute.
Material Issues and KPIs
In line with the start of the 2023 Medium-Term Management Plan, covering the three-year period from April 2021, we have put together the 2023 Sustainability Policy and identified new material issues from fiscal 2021. We have set KPIs for fiscal 2023 and are implementing various initiatives to achieve them.
Sustainability Policy Contribute to the sustainable growth of society and promote measures to improve corporate value
The Glory Group aims to realize a sustainable society by working to solve social issues with advanced technologies under Long-Term Vision 2028, which states “We enable a confident world."
Material Issues Map
2023 Medium-Term Sustainability KPI
| Material Issues | FY2023 KPIs | FY2022 KPIs | FY2021 results | FY2022 results | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Promote businesses contributing to a carbon-free society | CO2 emissions from business activities
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15% reduction (compared to FY2013) |
25.9% reduction | 32.7% reduction |
| Development and spread environmentally friendly products contributing to a carbon-free society | Reduce CO2 emissions in product usage
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20,000 tons (compared to FY2013) |
8,499tons | 8,972tons | |
| Enhance the contribution to biodiversity preservation | Biological and botanical survey Forest conservation activity (plant and thin out trees)  |
Disclose results 100% as planned |
・Implementation of vegetation surveys, and 18%/ 10-year improvement in carbon fixation amounts ・Plan achievement rate : 100% Thinning : 0.94 ha; planting (trees): 13 trees |
・Plan achievement rate : 100% Thinnig:0.5ha Cultivating trees Arakawa-Riverbank Cleanup Activities |
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Respect for human rights and diversity | Ensure the diversity of directors | Disclose results | One female board member | One female board member |
Ratio of female employees at time of hire
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25% or more (FY2025 Target) |
15.6% | 17.4% | ||
| Number of female managers
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44 (FY2025 Target) |
28 | 29 | ||
| Number of foreign employees (including number of managers) | Disclose results | 13 | 15 | ||
| Ratio of mid-career hires in management positions | Disclose results | 23.1% | 22.1% | ||
Ratio of Employees with Disabilities
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Above 2.3% | 2.46% | 2.46% | ||
Training on human rights
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Attendance rate 100% | e-learning participation rate of 99.8% | ・e-learning for Ethics Month (November):99.5% participation rate ・Compliance training at Production Headquarters (held 3 times online) |
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| Number of consultations on human rights
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Disclose results | 13 cases | 8 cases | ||
Training costs per employee (education investment)
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Disclose results | 48,203yen | 21,154yen | ||
| Number of whistleblowing cases
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Disclose results | 28 cases | 13 cases (including 8 consultations on harassment) | ||
| Maintain a healthy and safe workplace | Annual actual working hours per employee
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Disclose results | 2,025 hours | 2,013 hours | |
Promote health management
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Implementation of health management initiatives | Initiatives such as prevention of and response to COVID-19 and promotion of vaccinations |
Initiatives such as prevention of and response to COVID-19 and promotion of vaccination |
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| Number of days taken paid leave per employee
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More than the previous year | 14 days | 14.9 days | ||
| Lost-time injury frequency rate
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Less than the previous year | 0.52 | 0.53 | ||
| Lost-time injury severity rate
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Less than the previous year | 0.005 | 0.020 | ||
| Further promotion of global sustainable procurement | Implement the self-checklist (new business partners and primary business partners)
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Response rate of 100% | Response rate of 100% | Response rate of 100% | |
| Ensure product safety and quality | Number of occurrences of serious product accidents (PL)
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0 cases | 0 cases | 0 cases | |
| Number of severe incidents of non-compliance with laws and regulations (product safety)
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0 cases | 0 cases | 0 cases | ||
| Number of PL litigations about quality
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0 cases | 0 cases | 0 cases | ||
| Implementation rate of product safety assessment of newly developed products
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100% | 100% | 100% | ||
| Dialogue with Stakeholders | Number of call center tours (customers)
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Disclose results | 19 cases | 36 cases | |
| Number of monitoring center visits (customers)
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Disclose results | 55 cases | 70 cases | ||
| Number of showroom visits (Head Office, Tokyo Office)
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Disclose results | Head Office : 19 cases Tokyo Office : 256 cases |
Head Office : 91 cases Tokyo Office : 336 cases |
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| Number of factory tours (Head Office and Saitama Factory)
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Disclose results | Head Office : 11 cases Saitama Factory : 18 cases |
Head Office : 34 cases Saitama Factory : 43 cases |
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| Number of meetings with investors | Disclose results | 216 cases | 263 cases | ||
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Strengthen corporate governance | Analysis and evaluation relating to effectiveness of Board of Directors | Disclose results | Implemented third-party evaluations | Implemented third-party evaluations |
| Number of meetings of Board of Directors | Disclose results | 17 times (including temporary board of directors) | 16 times | ||
| Risk identification and management from a global perspective | Number of serious information security accidents
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0 cases | 0 cases | 0 cases | |
| Information security education
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100% | General training participation rate of 99.8%, etc. | General training participation rate of 99.8%, etc. | ||
| Corporate ethics, legal compliance, and anti-corruption initiatives | Number of serious compliance violations
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0 cases | 1 case | 0 cases | |
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Promote extension from core business domain | Provide retail solutions that meet contactless and self-service needs
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Disclose case studies | Supported retailers' promotion of self-checkout | Aggressive expansion of self-service kiosks into global F&B |
| Build and expand new business models | Support the promotion of DX in restaurants and retail outlets
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Disclose case studies | Active development of the DMP business and the kiosk business |
Active development of the DMP business and the kiosk business |
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| Promote IP (Intellectual Property) strategies | Number of domestic patent filed / registered | Disclose results | Number acquired in Japan: 171 cases Number of applications in Japan: 1,085 cases |
Number acquired in Japan: 125 cases Number of applications in Japan: 1,176 cases |
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| Number of overseas patent filed / registered | Disclose results | Number acquired overseas: 75 cases Number of applications overseas: 1,057 cases |
Number acquired overseas: 54 cases Number of applications overseas: 1,136 cases |
