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Fiscal 2008 CSR Activities - Objectives & Results

Internal Control

2008 Theme Meeting internal control requirements across the Group
2008 Objectives
  1. Hold meetings of internal control managers.
  2. Prepare related codes.
  3. Provide internal control education.
2008 Results
  1. Held meetings of global internal control managers.
  2. Prepared Group codes on duty & powers and budget management.
  3. Provided video education on global internal control.
Evaluation ○
Remaining Tasks
  • Establish evaluation systems in Europe and China.

Compliance

2008 Theme Improving employee awareness of legal compliance
2008 Objectives
  • Offer education on Mizuno Code of Conduct.
2008 Results
  • Organized 5 programs on the following themes:illegal acts, products & services, fair competition, illegal exports, and responses to complaints.
Evaluation ○
Remaining Tasks
  • Prepare easy-to-understand educational materials.
  • Promote effective use of CSR reports.

Risk Management

2008 Theme Identifying risks
2008 Objectives
  1. Establish Risk Management Committee.
  2. Identify and assess risks.
2008 Results
  1. Established the Risk Management Committee.
  2. Identified and assessed risks.
Evaluation ○
Remaining Tasks
  • Improve and promote preventive measures.

Customer Satisfaction

2008 Theme Enhancing product safety
2008 Objectives
  • Build chemical substance management systems.
2008 Results
  • Prepared chemical substance management codes and held explanation meetings for related sections.
Evaluation ○
Remaining Tasks
  • Commence chemical substance examinations and operate the control system.

Stakeholders Satisfaction

2008 Theme Providing legal education for marketing staff
2008 Objectives
  • Organize collective education programs using appropriate tools.
2008 Results
  • Provided video education on the Act against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations.
  • Issued guidelines for dealers on intellectual property rights.
Evaluation ○
Remaining Tasks
  • Continue relevant activities.
2008 Theme Operating the CSR Procurement Code
2008 Objectives
  1. Survey labor conditions of outsourced manufacturers.
  2. Monitor and improve labor conditions at overseas plants.
2008 Results
  1. Conducted surveys.
  2. Monitored and improved labor conditions at overseas plants (27 plants in China, 7 in other countries).
Evaluation ○
Remaining Tasks
  • Augment post-monitoring improvement activities.
2008 Theme Organizing events for employees and their families
2008 Objectives
  1. Organize parties for employees and Mizuno Track Club members (top athletes).
  2. Organize open house events for employees' children.
2008 Results
  1. Organized a party in Osaka.
  2. Organized events at sales offices nationwide.
Evaluation ○
Remaining Tasks
  • Organize coherent events at nationwide sales offices.

Social Contribution

2008 Theme Promoting AEDs
2008 Objectives
  • Co-organize at least 3 seminars with NPOs.
2008 Results
  • Held 5 seminars for baseball players and the general public. (158 participants)
  • Held 2 symposiums. (about 250 participants)
Evaluation ○
Remaining Tasks
  • Invite more people to AED seminars.

Disclosure to Stakeholders

2008 Theme Website posting of information on product recalls, product handling, and various FAQs
2008 Objectives
  • Post on our website recall information, and arrange merchandise information by sports events.
2008 Results
  • Posted on our website recall and other merchandise information, and FAQs.
Evaluation ○
Remaining Tasks
  • Continue relevant activities.
2008 Theme Revamping the CSR report
2008 Objectives
  • Make CSR report easier to understand.
2008 Results
  • Used more photographs and introduced stakeholders'views. Some suggested that the fonts used were too small.
Evaluation △
Remaining Tasks
  • Seek more effective use of photographs and illustrations, use larger fonts, and enrich the overall content.

Conservation of the Environment

2008 Theme Developing more environmentally friendly products
2008 Objectives
  1. Increase the percentage of environmentally friendly products to at least 25% of sales in Japan.
  2. Obtain Eco Marks for at least 3 items.
2008 Results
  1. 23.4%. (Sales of environmentally friendly products increased.)
  2. Obtained Eco Marks for 3 items:Superstar training wear, paint (Erasable Ecoline), and polo shirts.
Evaluation △
Remaining Tasks
  • Strengthen environmentally friendly product lines.
2008 Theme Achieving environmental targets
2008 Objectives
  • Achieve 10 targets, including CO2 reduction.
2008 Results
  • Reduced all types of wastes from previous year's levels. (Cardboard, however, increased in terms of ratio against target level.)
Evaluation ○
Remaining Tasks
  • Further reinforce environmental efforts and augment PR activities.
  • Promote EMS activities at overseas operations.

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