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Executive Message

To Change the Future Landscape

Creating Social Value Through Business

My name is Ryo Tanaka, and I am the sustainability promotion director at JINS HOLDINGS Inc. I will take the lead in working toward realizing the JINS Sustainability Vision, “Changing the Future Landscape Through Eyewear.”

Environmental issues such as climate change and social issues such as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) and healthcare defy any attempt at a quick and simple solution. However, JINS will face these issues seriously and resolutely work to address them with a vision and plan unconstrained by existing frameworks.

We also recognize that it is important to do this through the creation of products and services with the core eyewear business of JINS as a starting point, so we would like to continue to take on the challenge of promoting sustainability in tandem with businesses that only JINS can do.

Medium to Long-term Goals and Corporate Governance

JINS is currently setting 2030 Goals and strengthening its sustainability promotion system toward 2030, the year for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In line with setting the 2030 Goals, we are also formulating a roadmap for our promotion activities, as well as making progress with our Business Continuity Plan (BCP) for emergencies and disasters in order to respond to major changes in society.

JINS has set its Sustainability Vision as, “Changing the future landscape through eyewear.” JINS has been challenged to create a “new normal” in the industry since its foundation. We will share our commitment to look ahead to the future of society through our eyewear and constantly take action to overturn conventional wisdom with all of our stakeholders, and will work together to achieve this goal.

We also place importance on corporate governance to ensure that the organization is moving in the right direction. We have established corporate governance as “a mechanism to appropriately supervise the execution of business operations so that sounder, more efficient, and superior management can be carried out with the aim of sustainable growth and development of the company,” and we will promote various measures to enhance our management structure and strengthen its supervisory function for the purpose of increasing trust among all our stakeholders and pursuing enhanced corporate value.

Identifying Material Issues

JINS has identified six areas as material issues for sustainability initiatives: consideration for the environment, sound governance, dependable products and services, human capital maximization and respect for human rights, healthcare and innovation, and social contribution. We will focus on these and promote them strategically from now on.

These material issues have been developed after narrowing down various social issues centered primarily on global issues such as environment, society, and governance (ESG) and the SDGs, and formulated in consideration of their importance to JINS, its stakeholders, and overall society.

For one of the material issues, “consideration for the environment,” for example, we have worked on producing eyewear made using sustainable materials toward realizing a recycling-oriented society, in order to reduce our environmental impact.
Further, in the area of “healthcare and innovation,” which is closely related to eyewear, we research light and promote educational activities to raise awareness in order to help protect eye health, as well as manufacturing sensing devices to care for vision, along with body posture and mental health. We would also like to take on the challenge of creating various innovations in the area of healthcare, with eyewear as a starting point, such as developing medical devices that not only correct myopia, but proactively work to prevent it.
Moreover, in the area of “human capital maximization and respect for human rights,” to promote DE&I among employees, JINS is creating an environment where diverse personnel working at JINS can thrive in their careers regardless of normal differences between individuals, including nationality, race, ethnicity, social status, religion, creed, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, mental or physical disabilities, family, career, experiences, working styles, or the like. Leveraging the abilities and characteristics of each individual person as much as possible will lead to further innovation and value creation.

Relationships with Stakeholders

JINS is engaged in business to maximize the value it can provide to its stakeholders. To this end, we recognize the importance of listening carefully to the expectations and opinions of our stakeholders and moving forward together while considering the impacts that JINS will have on the environment and society. In addition, we will contribute to all of our stakeholders and build trusting and collaborative relationships with them through our business itself, which is aligned with the direction of our management strategy and that of social demands.

From now on, we will continue to take on the challenge to create a “new normal,” deepening our relationship with all our stakeholders in order to demonstrate the value of JINS to society, and aim to co-create new value while making persistent efforts to realize a sustainable and prosperous society.

Ryo Tanaka
Executive Vice President
Sustainability Promotion Director