Outside Evaluations
Incorporation of ESG Investing Indexes
Sapporo Holdings promotes activities under the belief that sustainability activities including Environmental (E), Social (S), and Governance (G) will result in long-term corporate growth and profit returns for shareholders.
As of the end of 2022, we are incorporated in the following ESG investment indexes.
FTSE4Good Global Index
(FTSE Russell, the United Kingdom)
The FTSE4Good Global Index was designed to evaluate and promote investments toward companies demonstrating strong Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and meeting other existing international standards. The series is the optimal index for ESG investments due to its transparent management and selection standards, and the excellent brand image of the FTSE group.
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FTSE Blossom Japan Index
(FTSE Russell, the United Kingdom)
This index is comprised of selected Japanese corporations with excellent ESG scores from those within the FTSE Japan Index of the FTSE4Good index series. It is used as the ESG investment index for the Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF).
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MSCI Japan ESG Select Leaders Index (MSCI Inc., the United States)
This index is comprised of companies with excellent ESG scores, from the top 500 aggregate market value brands aiming for 50% of aggregate market value of industrial classification. This selection method alleviates deviation of business categories, which is common when selecting companies with high ESG scores. It is used as the ESG investment index for the Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF).
MSCI Japan ESG Select Leaders Index
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Sompo Sustainability Index (Sompo Asset Management Co., Ltd., Japan)
Used for Sompo Asset Management operations.
This index is a socially responsible investment product geared toward institutional investors/pension funds which invest widely in companies with excellent ESG (environmental, social and governance) scores. It operates on a long-term basis, upon the “Sompo Sustainable Index” which offers an original configuration of investment brands with weight put on ESG scores.
Sompo Asset Management Co., Ltd., Japan
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Awards and Commendation History
Award achievements
Received the “Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Award” at the 27th Annual Global Environment Awards
Sapporo Holdings received the “Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Award” at the 27th Annual Global Environment Awards. The award commemorated the technology of “generating bioethanol from cassava tapioca starch,” which was a result of the biomass energy technological development that applied our brewing techniques from our long years of domestic and overseas alcoholic beverage production. Our goal is to contribute toward resolving energy and environmental issues, while disseminating technology for bio energy manufacturing to ASEAN countries, which have large-scale cassava farming.
Sapporo Group, certified as an excellent health management corporation
In 2023, Sapporo Holdings, Sapporo Breweries, and Pokka Sapporo Food & Beverage received the "Excellent Enterprise of Health and Productivity Management (White 500)," and Sapporo Lion was also consecutively certified as a corporation for excellent health management. Yasuma Co., Ltd. has been consecutively certified as an excellent health management corporation in the small- and medium-sized corporation category, and received the "Bright 500" certification for excellent health management in 2021. In 2023, two new companies, SAPPORO REAL ESTATE and Sapporo Field Marketing, received the first "Bright 500" certification for excellent health management.
The Sapporo Group is promoting various initiatives to improve the health of its employees. These include the establishment of a follow-up system after regular health checkups in cooperation with industrial physicians, the implementation of health promotion measures unique to each workplace, and activities to improve the workplace environment by utilizing the results of group analysis of stress checks. Furthermore, initiatives such as campaigns to promote exercise and healthy eating habits and measures to improve participation in lifestyle-related disease check-ups and to promote anti-smoking measures with health insurance society cooperation are also being implemented. The certification this time was based on objective data on verified effects of various activities, and the recognition of the PDCA cycle toward improving initiatives.
The Sapporo Group will continue to make further efforts to improve the health of its employees.
Sapporo Holdings, selected as a "Semi-Nadeshiko" company in 2021
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.
“Platinum Kurumin” certification
In 2017, Sapporo Breweries acquired “Platinum Kurumin” certification from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as a top-level corporation offering child rearing support. The company continues to support the physical and mental wellbeing of employees by promoting activities to balance work and family life, such as super-flexible work times and telecommuting.
Sapporo Breweries received the 2018 JSBBA Award for Achievement in Technological Research
The many years of diverse analysis of hop quality and its application have been commended, along with the “global contribution to stabilizing hop cultivation,” “continuous breeding and development of high-quality hop strains,” and “the diverse analysis of components unique to hops” for the 2018 JSBBA Award for Achievement in Technological Research.
Sapporo Breweries received the 2017 European Brewery Convention Best Poster Award
The research achievements for the uniquely fragrant hop “SORACHI ACE,” created in 1983, was recognized at the European Brewery Convention. This was the third consecutive year for Sapporo Breweries to receive the highest award.
POKKA SAPPORO Food & Beverage received the 2015 JSBBA Award for Achievement in Technological Research
The high AC electric field sterilization method produces an electric sterilization effect along with heating the food object itself by passing electric currents within the food. The synergistic effect creates a technology that efficiently and swiftly sterilizes microorganisms in food.
2017
Received the Industrial Award for Food Immunization (Japanese Association for Food Immunology) for “Verifying the allergy prevention properties of hops and the anti-inflammatory properties of Lactobacillus brevis SBC8803 through fundamental research and undertook clinical studies to pave the way for the practical application of the effects of these materials”
Received the Brewing Society of Japan Technology Award (Brewing Society of Japan) for “Beer proteome analysis for improvement of foam quality, and its application to malting barley breeding”
Received the 2017 JSBBA Topics Award (Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry) for “Identification and characterization of unique flavor compounds contributing to the specific flavor of the Japanese hop Sorachi Ace”
2016
The “Research related to synergistic effects of hop aroma components” received the Brewing Society of Japan Technology Award (Brewing Society of Japan)
2015
Received the JSBBA Award for Achievement in Technological Research (Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry) for “initiatives for foam quality enhancement”
Received the Japanese Society of Breeding Award (Japanese Society of Breeding) for “Cultivation of high-quality beer barley breeds using deletion-mutation lipoxygenase”
Received the Japan Society for Food Engineering Society Award (Japan Society for Food Engineering) for research on the soup manufacturing technology “Development of granulation technique for powdered food products with aqua gas as binders”
2014
Received the Japanese Society of Breeding Encouragement Award (Japanese Society of Breeding) for “Development of selection methods in malting barley breeding based on proteome analysis” in beer barley research.
2013
Received the Japan Society for Food Engineering Essay Award (Japan Society for Food Engineering) for research on the soup manufacturing technology “Analysis of fluid bed granulating process of corn starch—affects toward granule growth and fluid bed moisture content by spray pressure and binder supply speed”
2010
Received the Eric Kneen Memorial Award (American Society of Brewing Chemists) for the research on swallowing sensations with beer “Relationship Among Throat Sensation, Beer Flavor, and Swallowing Motion While Drinking Beer”