Message from the Executive Officer in Charge of Sustainability Management
UACJ implemented structural reforms for three and a half years since October 2019, and profitability has improved as a result. The Company has posted higher profits in Japan and generated substantial returns on large capital investments in Thailand and the United States. The Company has also strengthened its management system and structure through the reforms by reorganizing decision-making bodies and renewing the UACJ Group’s corporate philosophy. The structural reforms were a means to improve earnings and reorganize management, but those activities evolved into ongoing efforts to create new businesses while providing solutions to issues facing the world today. In other words, we shifted our focus to sustainability, and have begun taking this approach to the next level. To lead these efforts, the Company established its Corporate Sustainability Division in April 2023, replacing the former Corporate Sustainability Department that had been responsible for promoting sustainability initiatives in the past. Under this new structure, we will shift to a more aggressive stance by drawing from the Company’s increased earnings capacity—an outcome of the structural reforms—to channel more resources to sustainability-related activities going forward.