Euglena sustainability website
-Promote initiatives related to SDGs and ESG management-

Euglena Co., Ltd.

　Euglena Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo, President: Mitsuru Izumo) will post a web page ^{on sustainability * 1}​ ​on its corporate website on Tuesday, March 31 (https://euglena.jp/companyinfo/sustainability/).) Has been established, and we are pleased to announce that we have started posting our information on ^{Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) * 2} and ESG management ^{* 3.}​
* 1: The idea of making society and the global environment sustainable in the future as the economy develops.
* 2: The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which consisted of 17 global targets and 169 targets, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in September 2015.
* 3: Corporate management that aims to continuously improve corporate value over the long term through initiatives that take into consideration the environment, society, and governance (Environment, Social, Governance) as well as short-term financial corporate performance.

■ Social interest in sustainability
　In recent years, consumers' awareness and interest in SDGs and ESG management has increased, and more than half of the individual investors who "consider ESG initiatives" when investing ^{* 4}.. Based on this growing interest in society, the source of medium- to long-term competitiveness of companies has been not only financial information but also non-financial information since the Japanese version of the "Stewardship Code" ^{* 5 was published in 2014.} The number of institutional investors who believe that this is the cause is increasing, and there is increasing pressure to disclose information on sustainability, including SDGs and ESG management. In addition, with the publication of the “Corporate Governance Code” ^{* 6} in 2015, the number of companies that disclose non-financial information is increasing year by year in order to respond to disclosure requests from institutional investors. We also recognize that efforts for future growth and disclosure of information on these efforts are the source of long-term improvement in corporate value, and this time we will provide information on our efforts to achieve the SDGs and sustainability including ESG management. We have started posting on our corporate website.
* 4: See Dentsu Public Relations Inc. “2019 ESG / SDGs Awareness Survey”.
* 5: Institutional investors have a constructive "purpose" based on a deep understanding of investee companies and their business environment, as well as consideration of sustainability (medium- to long-term sustainability including ESG factors) according to investment strategies. Principles that are considered to be useful for fulfilling the responsibility of beneficiaries to expand their medium- to long-term investment returns by promoting the improvement of corporate value and sustainable growth of companies through “dialogue with them”.
* 6: To fulfill the responsibility of the Board of Directors, which makes decisions regarding basic management policies and business execution, to improve corporate value by appropriately supervising the execution by management and exercising appropriate governance functions. Principles that are considered useful for.

■ Our approach to sustainability
　When disclosing information on sustainability, we classify the Group's efforts into two categories: (1) the challenge of achieving SDGs through our business and (2) ESG management that supports sustainable business activities.

(1) Challenge to achieve SDGs through business
　 Based on our management philosophy of "Making People and the Earth Healthy," we are working to solve social problems facing the world through our business. In addition to the healthcare business, which mainly aims to solve health problems in Japan and provide a lively life, the energy and environment business, which aims to develop and popularize biofuels that will help mitigate Climate Change, we also have a food business in Bangladesh. We are promoting social businesses that provide support. The Group aims to lead the improvement of corporate value through the medium- to long-term growth of these businesses, solve the social issues targeted by each business, and contribute to the achievement of the SDGs.

(2) ESG management that supports sustainable business activities
　On the other hand, our business activities are supported by various blessings of the natural environment and many stakeholders such as investors and local communities, and we have responded to ESG in order to realize long-term sustainable management. We recognize that it is necessary to build a management base. The management base that supports ESG is the foundation for realizing the challenge of achieving SDGs through the above businesses, and in order to further accelerate business growth, ESG management that supports sustainable business activities I think that we should attach importance to.

■ Contents of the web page
　Based on the above concept, our sustainability web page has newly established pages that introduce ESG management policies and initiatives in addition to the introduction of current business activities that contribute to the achievement of the SDGs that have been disclosed on the corporate website. We have systematically organized our efforts regarding SDGs and ESG management.

　We will continue to provide further information on businesses that challenge the achievement of SDGs based on the management philosophy of "Health for people and the earth," and enhance the management base that supports ESG, to all shareholders and investors. We will actively promote information disclosure to our customers.

<About Euglena Co., Ltd.>
In 2005, we succeeded in establishing the world's first edible outdoor mass culture technology for the Euglena In addition to developing and selling functional foods and cosmetics that utilize the Euglena and Chlorella produced on Ishigaki Island, we are also conducting research toward the production of biofuels. Euglena GENKI Program, which has been in operation since 2014 to deliver Euglena cookies with abundant nutrients to children in Bangladesh, will be expanded to all group products including cosmetics from April 2019. Listed on TSE Mothers in December 2012. TSE First Section market change in December 2014. The management philosophy is "to make people and the earth healthy".
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