2024.07.23 Corporate

Kansai Paint has been included for the first time in the FTSE Blossom Japan Sector Relative Index

Kansai Paint Co., Ltd.

 Kansai Paint Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Kita-ku, Osaka, President & CEO: MORI Kunishi, hereinafter referred to as “Kansai Paint”) announces it has been included for the first time in the FTSE Blossom Japan Sector Relative Index.   

 

■About FTSE Blossom Japan Sector Relative Index
 The FTSE Blossom Japan Sector Relative Index is designed as a sector neutral benchmark that reflects the performance of companies demonstrating strong Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices in Japan. The index selects companies with higher ESG Ratings within the top 50% of each sector and supports climate transition to a low carbon economy by evaluating companies’ climate governance and climate change efforts via the Transition Pathway Initiative’s Management Quality Score. 
 The FTSE Blossom Japan Sector Relative Index is one of the ESG index which has been selected by Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), one of the world’s largest institutional investors. It is used by a wide variety of market participants to create and assess responsible investment funds and other products.

 

Further information can be found online at the FTSE Blossom Japan Index series page.

 

■Kansai Paint Group’s sustainability and ESG initiatives
 The Kansai Paint Group began its 17th Medium-term Management Plan in April 2022. We have positioned this period as a shift toward a sustainable growth cycle and promote initiatives that emphasize sustainability management in all E/S/G aspects. In addition, we have identified four material issues (materiality) including “Realizing decarbonization”. We aim to be a group that can contribute to the earth and society from a medium-to-long-term perspective with sustainable growth.

 

Further information can be found online at Kansai Paint global website.
    Integrated report and ESG data :  https://www.kansai.com/sustainability/library/
    May 15, 2024, Strategy Briefings : https://asset.kansai.com/uploads/investors/pdf/FY2023_4Q_en_strategy.pdf

 

 

Contact Information

Kansai Paint Co., Ltd
Investor and Public Relations Dept. Corporate Panning Div.
(Horiguchi, Nishimura)
E-mail: koho@als.kansai.co.jp