Environmental Communication Sustainability

Since 2008, Goldwin has done all that it can as a sports apparel manufacturer, considering the environment together with consumers with the aim to realize a sustainable society, under the banner of GREEN IS GOOD.

We aimed to realize a circular society by developing and manufacturing products that integrate ideas to reduce environmental impact, while taking action with our customers who use these products, aiming to care for different environments within all areas of sports and the outdoors. We are promoting communication and activities with our customers through our stores and products, on our company website, and through events.

Goldwin Group conducts semiannual environmental education for each business department, aiming to ensure awareness of our Environmental Philosophy and Environmental Policies, and to share progress on key environmental issues.

In FY 2023, environmental education was given to all employees to share with them our progress on key environmental issues and share examples of initiatives in each division to achieve our environmental targets. Each division conducts two 25-minute environmental education workshops, which are attended by all employees. We are also working to instill sustainability within the company using our intranet. For instance, we published Sustainability Navigation, a series of articles to encourage employees to think about sustainability in terms of themes that are familiar to them. In FY 2023, the series included a total of 14 articles.

We also conducted a total of eight ESG study sessions at our business sites in Toyama, Sapporo, Osaka, and Fukuoka, with a total of 178 employees participating. The study sessions introduced basic knowledge about sustainability and our efforts through the Integrated Report. The study sessions are archived and shared with employees who were unable to attend.

In FY 2024, in addition to enhancing content on our intranet, we are planning a training workshop to raise employee awareness of sustainability. We will continue to provide all employees with opportunities to learn about the environmental issues surrounding our Group as well as to ensure that they are fully aware of our Environmental Policies.

Goldwin Group actively communicates our environmental initiatives, for example, through our website, our Integrated Report, and through event sponsorship.

We also promote activities to improve the global environment in-store and through sporting events, together with participants in sporting and outdoor activities. In addition, we hold activities to raise interest in Earth and the environment among children, who have Earth’s future in their hands, and to help them to understand the importance of working together to protect our natural environment, through experiences and fun, such as Kids Nature School and Play Earth Park.

Collection of Clothing at the 2023 Toyama Marathon

Since 2015, Goldwin has been a sponsor of the Toyama Marathon, which is held in Toyama Prefecture where the company was founded. At the marathon held on Sunday, November 5, 2023, we organized a booth to showcase our environmental initiatives, and we collected approximately 539 kg of clothing. Clothes made of polyester and nylon are chemically recycled back into high-purity raw materials. We thus reuse collected clothes as raw materials for new products as much as possible and recycle them into resources, thereby aiming to reduce environmental impact.

Collection of Clothing at Kataller Toyama Home Matches

Goldwin has continued to support Kataller Toyama (a professional soccer team) by supplying uniforms since the team debuted in 2008 in Toyama Prefecture where the company was founded.

During the 2022 season, we started collecting unwanted clothing from Kataller Toyama supporters at home matches. In FY 2023, 1,091.1 kg of clothes were collected.

Cooperation for the Shonan International Marathon

Goldwin and THE NORTH FACE cooperate with the Shonan International Marathon, dubbed a “My Bottle Marathon” aimed at zero waste.

Starting from the event held in 2022, runners are asked to bring their own drink bottles, and water tanks and jugs are set up at over 200 locations along the course. All paper cups, plastic cups, and PET bottles are completely eliminated from the event, equating to approximately 31,500 PET bottles and 500,000 paper and plastic cups that were previously needed, plus another 26,500 PET bottles that were distributed after the goal line. We have also started the collection of wear and shoes that can be recycled or reused, collecting about 260 kg of goods from participants and visitors.

Community Clean-up Activities

Each of the Goldwin Group’s business departments undertake community clean-up activities. In FY 2023, we conducted 640 such activities, including clean-up activities at each of our business locations and stores, as well as beach clean-up activities and clean-up mountain-climbing activities.

Tree-planting Activities

Goldwin’s THE NORTH FACE brand is conducting the “ONE PRODUCT ONE TREE” campaign in which one tree is planted for every product sold. The aim of the campaign is to get people to think about the global environment through the act of choosing a product.

We have planted approximately 12,000 trees to date and plan to continue this initiative going forward.