Outside Evaluations

The Sapporo Group is promoting various initiatives to improve the health of its employees. These include the development of a follow-up system after regular health checkups in cooperation with industrial physicians; the development of health promotion measures unique to each workplace; and activities to improve the workplace environment by utilizing the results of stress check group analysis. Furthermore, initiatives such as smoking cessation measures in cooperation with health insurance associations, measures to improve participation in lifestyle-related disease checkups, and campaigns to promote exercise and healthy eating habits are also being implemented. The recognition this time was granted in appreciation of the fact that Group companies verify the effectiveness of various measures based on objective data and implement the PDCA cycle to improve their initiatives.
The Sapporo Group will continue to make further efforts to improve the health of its employees.
In 2025, Sapporo Holdings received the recognition of the 2025 KENKO Investment for Health Stock Selection for the first time. In the large corporation category, Sapporo Holdings, Sapporo Breweries, and POKKA SAPPORO Food & Beverage received the “White 500” recognition, and Sapporo Lion was recognized as an outstanding organization of KENKO Investment for Health. In the small- and medium-sized corporation category, three Group companies, namely Sapporo Real Estate, Sapporo Field Marketing, and Sapporo Group Logistics, received the “Bright 500” recognition, and Yasuma received the “Next Bright 1000” recognition of KENKO Investment for Health.

★Sapporo Holdings: the 2025 KENKO Investment for Health Stock Selection (selected for the first time) ➡ Case studies of selected companies
★Sapporo Holdings and Sapporo Breweries (recognized for 9 consecutive years: White 500 from 2017 to 2025)
★POKKA SAPPORO Food & Beverage (recognized for 8 consecutive years: White 500 from 2018 to 2025)
★Sapporo Lion (recognized for 8 consecutive years: White 500 for 3 consecutive years from 2018 to 2020)
★Yasuma (recognized for 9 consecutive years from 2017 to 2025: Bright 500 in 2021, Next Bright 1000 in 2025)
★Sapporo Real Estate (recognized for 3 consecutive years: Bright 500 from 2023 to 2025)
★Sapporo Field Marketing (recognized for 3 consecutive years: Bright 500 from 2023 to 2025)
★Sapporo Group Logistics (recognized for 2 consecutive years: Bright 500 from 2024 to 2025)

The Sapporo Group is promoting various initiatives to improve the health of its employees. These include the development of a follow-up system after regular health checkups in cooperation with industrial physicians; the development of health promotion measures unique to each workplace; and activities to improve the workplace environment by utilizing the results of stress check group analysis. Furthermore, initiatives such as smoking cessation measures in cooperation with health insurance associations, measures to improve participation in lifestyle-related disease checkups, and campaigns to promote exercise and healthy eating habits are also being implemented. The recognition this time was granted in appreciation of the Group's strategic approach to stakeholder health issues from a management perspective.
The Sapporo Group continues to make further efforts to improve the wellbeing of its stakeholders.

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The Sapporo Group supports employees in balancing work with childcare, nursing care, and medical treatment through its worker-friendly systems and open dialogue with employees. Consultation counters with outside experts have been established for childcare, nursing care, and other matters.
Starting in 2022, videos on nursing care have been disseminated throughout the Group.
The Group has also been working to increase the rate of male employees taking childcare leave and to lengthen the number of leave days taken by them. This is because we believe that the initiative will fulfill the wishes of men who want to be actively involved in childcare, help them understand childcare and housework, which tends to be carried mainly by women, and reduce the burden on women. In appreciation of these efforts, the Sapporo Group has been selected for the second consecutive year as one of “Next Nadeshiko: Companies Supporting Dual Careers and Co-parenting” jointly by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE).
This evaluation system is targeted at listed companies that are particularly outstanding in their efforts to provide gender-neutral “support for all employees to manage to strike a balance between empowerment in the workplace and child rearing (i.e. dual careers and co-parenting).”

Sapporo Lion was awarded the Gold Prize in the Age Friendly category at the 2nd SAFE Awards by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) in recognition of its efforts to create an environment where elderly workers can continue working energetically for a long time.
Amid the labor shortage in the restaurant industry, Sapporo Lion will continue to promote efforts to improve the working environment so that senior workers with motivation, skills and experience, who are important workforce, can work safely, while helping both companies and workers understand the possibility of increased risk of occupational accidents, etc. due to the characteristics of elderly workers (such as reduced mobility, eyesight, and hearing) as their own matters.

The Sapporo Group aims to create a situation in which it is natural for women to continue to be active and fulfilled in their work, as a gateway to respect and utilize diversity in all aspects. The Group is also working to raise the awareness of managers and introduce a new human resources system that enables all generations of employees, regardless of gender, to be active in the workforce. In recognition of these efforts, the Group was selected in 2021 as a "Semi-Nadeshiko" company, which excels in promoting women's activities, jointly by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Tokyo Stock Exchange.