Background and Issues

The Konica Minolta Group recognizes that, around the world, many people are forced to work with no respect for their rights or in deplorable conditions. Child and migrant workers^*1 are particularly susceptible to these negatives. The Group also understands that companies must fulfill their social responsibilities, including making improvements in the areas of labor issues (human rights), employee health and safety, the environment, and ethics, not only for their own products, but also throughout the entire supply chain^*2 involved in delivering these products to customers.

*1

A migrant worker is a person who either migrates within their country of origin (internal migration) or outside it (crossing an international border) to pursue employment.

*2

Supply chain: The series of activities involved in delivering a product or service to a customer, ranging from procurement and production to distribution and sales.

Vision

Konica Minolta aims to contribute to building a sustainable society that takes social issues such as human rights into consideration. To achieve this goal, we are working together with our clients along the entire supply chain to help solve these social issues. Through such initiatives, the business value of both Konica Minolta and our clients is improved, and by providing products that our customers can feel comfortable purchasing, we can ‘create shared value’.

Key Measures and KPIs

*1

Requests submitted to suppliers for each medium-term plan’s period from FY2022 to FY2022 and FY2023 to FY2025

*2

Figures are cumulative for the medium-term plan (FY2023 - FY2025) and are calculated as the number of CSR third-party audits implemented divided by the number of sites planned for implementation (Group production sites + major suppliers)

*3

Number of major supplier: Reviewed annually

*4

Total number of product manufacturing sites that have received third-party audits for new or continued RBA certification and hold RBA certification of SILVER or higher