Environmental Management System Sustainability

At Goldwin Group, the President and Representative Director holds the highest responsibility and authority for overall sustainability management and is responsible for its effectiveness. The Group-wide environmental efforts comprise the Sustainability Advisory Committee as an advisory committee linked to the Board of Directors, and the Sustainability Committee that confirms the progress of sustainability management and considers a strategy to address. The Sustainability Advisory Committee invites external members in addition to the Company’s directors and auditors, and serves as a forum to discuss the Company’s sustainability strategies. Decisions made at the Sustainability Advisory Committee are executed through the Sustainability Committee as specific tasks. Both the Sustainability Advisory Committee and the Sustainability Committee are held once per quarter.

The EMS Committee, chaired by the President and Representative Director, with a management executive as its deputy chair, is responsible for managing the implementation of environmental activities of the entire Group. Based on ISO 14001, the EMS Committee oversees the results of business divisions’ environmental activities on a monthly basis. The GREEN IS GOOD Working Group, a sub-committee of the Development Committee, which plays a key role in Group product and technological development, primarily promotes activities and manages the progress of environmentally friendly product development and collection of unwanted apparel.

EMS Committee

Under the ultimate responsibility of the President and Representative Director, a management executive serves as deputy chairperson of the EMS Committee. The Committee meets to confirm the progress of each division’s environmental activities and manage ISO 14001 sustainment. The administrative office, comprising members from the Internal Audit Office, General Administration Headquarters, and Corporate Planning Headquarters, manages the progress of environmental activities monthly. The administrative office manages environmental activities of each division, and managers from business divisions are responsible for environmental activities. In this way, we ensure that environmental activities are conducted.

GREEN IS GOOD Working Group, Development Committee

The GREEN IS GOOD Working Group within the Development Committee, mainly comprising members from the Sourcing Headquarters, Corporate Planning Headquarters and Business Headquarters, meets monthly to promote adoption of materials with reduced environmental impact, manage apparel collection and promote marketing activities that communicate our environmental activities to customers. The working group manages registration of materials with reduced environmental impact in business divisions, and works with the EMS Committee to manage the sales mix of products using materials with reduced environmental impact. It also serves to drive Group-wide activities, including sharing information on materials developed.

Specifying Key Environmental Issues

The apparel industry is associated with large environmental impact and urgently required to build systems for society to coexist with nature. Also, sports and outdoor activities, which form the core of our business, cannot be separated from environmental issues. We aim to conserve a sustainable global environment and build social structure, through business activities that reduce environmental impacts by using minimal resources and energy. We added “Biodiversity Conservation and Restoration” to the three key environmental issues specified in May 2021 under the new Medium-term Management Plan formulated in July 2024.

In November 1999, Goldwin’s Toyama facilities obtained certification under ISO 14001, the international standard for environment management systems, making Goldwin the first company in the sportswear industry to receive this certification. To further develop its conservation programs and environment-friendly products while improving the efficiency of its operations through energy-saving measures, all of Goldwin’s offices obtained ISO 14001 certification in February 2006, and Goldwin Logitem followed in July 2008.

Goldwin will continue to implement its corporate guiding principle of “Clean Management,” by providing environment-friendly products and services, and will implement responsible employment and economic practices, in order to contribute to society.

Environmental Audits

Based on ISO 14001, our Group undergoes an audit from a certified organization and conducts an annual internal audit. This internal audit focuses on the conformity of aims set each fiscal year by our business divisions with laws and regulations. In FY 2023, the audit conveyed three non-conformities and 11 observations. The non-conformities were found in the non-achievement of fiscal year targets set by business divisions, the causes were analyzed and corrective actions were implemented.

The examination by the certified organization found no non-conformities, but conveyed six observations. We undertook clarification of the rules in response to these observations. From FY 2021, we shifted management from the floor-level to the smaller unit of business divisions, leading to more active communication from FY 2022 onward and deeper understanding of our Basic Principles of Environmental Protection and Environmental Policies.