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Konica Minolta included in the FTSE4Good Index Series for 21 consecutive years and named to all ESG Indexes adopted by the GPIF for eight consecutive years

London, UK | 15 August 2024

Konica Minolta, Inc. (Konica Minolta) has been included in the FTSE4Good Index Series, which is one of the most well-known sustainable investment indexes in the world, for 21 consecutive years.



To coincide with this, Konica Minolta has also been named to all of the six indexes adopted by Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF)1 for the eighth consecutive year. These six indexes are the FTSE Blossom Japan Index, the FTSE Blossom Japan Sector Relative Index, the MSCI Japan ESG Select Leaders Index, the MSCI Japan Empowering Women Index, the S&P/JPX Carbon Efficient Index and the Morningstar Japan ex-REIT Gender Diversity Tilt Index.
Sustainability is now a common issue throughout the world, and since the integration of Konica and Minolta in 2003, the Company has positioned sustainability as one of the core elements of management strategy. More recently, in 2020, Konica Minolta evaluated its own impact on society at large and the environment to help identify opportunities and risks to work towards creating a more sustainable society by 2030. As such, Konica Minolta has identified five material issues to focus on to create value within society. Namely:
 
  • Improving fulfilment in work and corporate dynamism
  • Supporting healthy, high-quality living
  • Ensuring social safety and security
  • Addressing climate change
  • Using limited resources effectively
Konica Minolta has been working to create value through its business in response to five material issues.
 
In the Professional Print Business, the Company has been contributing to improving fulfilment in work and corporate dynamism by promoting the shift from analogue printing to digital printing, significantly reducing the work time through labour saving, elimination of dependence on skills, and remote work transition, and helping create a clean work environment at print shops and transformation to a creative and vibrant workplace. The Company has also been contributing to addressing climate change and using limited resources effectively by reducing transport, storage, disposal, and intermediate goods through production at the right time, in the right amount, at the right place.
In the Industry Business, the Company has been contributing to addressing climate change by helping significantly reduce CO2 emissions and industrial wastewater by shifting the process of manufacturing printed circuit boards to the inkjet method. In terms of functional films, the Company has been contributing to using limited resources effectively by using TAC films derived from plants and achieving 100% recycling of out-of-spec products and surplus materials in the manufacturing process.
 
In the Healthcare Business, the Company has been contributing to supporting healthy, high-quality living by achieving early diagnosis using its proprietary image processing technology and ICT and increasing the efficiency at hospitals and clinics.
 
Through these activities, Konica Minolta aims to help people achieve their own purpose and realize a sustainable society to a greater degree.

FTSE4Good Index Series
The FTSE4Good Index Series, which was introduced by FTSE Russell, a UK-based global index provider, lists companies around the world demonstrating strong environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices, and provides a means for investors and RI funds to select companies with good sustainability prospects for investment.
 
FTSE Blossom Japan Index
The FTSE Blossom Japan Index is designed to include Japanese companies with excellent performance in ESG practices, and was selected by GPIF, the world’s largest public pension fund, as one of the ESG indexes for its passive investment strategy.
 
FTSE Blossom Japan Sector Relative Index
The FTSE Blossom Japan Sector Relative Index is a comprehensive ESG index that incorporates Japanese companies selected based on assessments of the size of companies’ environmental impact and their management of climate change risks, as well as the ESG assessments of FTSE Russell. This index was adopted as an ESG index by the GPIF in 2022.
 
MSCI Japan ESG Select Leaders Index and MSCI Japan Empowering Women Index
The MSCI Japan ESG Select Leaders Index and the MSCI Japan Empowering Women Index are ESG indexes introduced in 2017 by MSCI Inc., a US-based global ESG research and index provider.
 
S&P/JPX Carbon Efficient Index
The S&P/JPX Carbon Efficient Index was launched jointly by S&P Dow Jones Indices, one of the world’s major index providers, and Japan Exchange Group, Inc. Using TOPIX as a benchmark, it is designed to reduce exposure to high-carbon companies while maintaining the risk/return profile similar to that of their benchmarks.
 
Morningstar Japan ex-REIT Gender Diversity Tilt Index
The Morningstar Japan ex-REIT Gender Diversity Tilt Index is one of the gender diversity indices provided by Morningstar, a U.S. provider of investment research and investment management services. It utilizes data and evaluation methods from Equileap and is designed to enable investment focused on companies that have established gender diversity policies as part of their corporate culture, and companies that promise equal opportunities to their employees regardless of gender. This index was adopted as an ESG index by the GPIF in March 2023.

Reference: Evaluation by External Parties
Konica Minolta is currently included in global ESG indexes and is ranked high in the ESG ratings, as shown below.
 
  • FTSE4Good Index Series (UK)
Included in the index consecutively since integration of Konica Minolta in 2003
  • FTSE Blossom Japan Index (UK)
Included in the index consecutively since its establishment in 2017
Included in the index consecutively since its establishment in 2017
 
  • MSCI Japan Empowering Women Index (USA)
Included in the index consecutively since its establishment in 2017
 
  • Morningstar Japan ex-REIT Gender Diversity Tilt Index (USA)
Included in the index since its establishment in 2023 (Certified as the highest Group 1）
 
  • Dow Jones Sustainability Index (USA)
Asia Pacific Index (DJSI Asia Pacific): Included in the index consecutively since 2009
 
  • S&P/JPX Carbon Efficient Index (USA, Japan)
Included in the index consecutively since its establishment in 2018
 
  • S&P Global Sustainability Yearbook (USA)
Included in the Sustainability Yearbook consecutively
 
  • ISS ESG (USA)
Maintained the highest Prime Status since 2011
 
  • CDP (UK)
Included on the Supplier Engagement Leader (2016, 2018, 2020-2023)
 
  • Asia-Pacific Climate Leaders (UK, Germany)
Selected in 2024

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