CSR for Toyota Tsusho Corporation

Message from the President

Jun Karube
President

I would like to express my deepest condolences for all who perished in the Great East Japan Earthquake and my sincerest sympathies to all who were affected by this disaster. I pray for the earliest possible recovery of the stricken region.

CSR Inseparable from Management

Toyota Tsusho does not view CSR as a special undertaking. Rather, we see it as being inseparable from the management of all corporate activities. Based on this viewpoint, we established our Corporate Philosophy as living and prospering together with people, society, and the Earth. Accordingly we aim to be a value-generating corporation that contributes to the creation of a prosperous society. The Group has established Behavioral Guidelines as a fundamental code of conduct for realizing this philosophy. We also seek to pass on a deeper understanding of The Toyota Tsusho Group Way, which sets forth the Group's unique values, beliefs and daily principals.

Toyota Tsusho's mission is to continually address society's changing needs, create new business models, and deliver new value to markets and society. To realize this mission, we are continuing efforts to build a company that is trusted by all of its stakeholders and to increase corporate value.

Principal CSR Initiatives in Fiscal 2010

In fiscal 2010, Toyota Tsusho continued to pursue its CSR initiatives in line with the mission described above. Under a business model designed to help resolve some of the issues that society faces, in June 2010 we embarked on the complete cultivation of bluefin tuna. We established a new company, Tuna Dream Gotoh Co., Ltd., to handle the intermediate cultivation of these tuna through a technology-sharing agreement with Kinki University, which developed the technique. This new company is significant in that it aims both to protect biodiversity and sustain Japan's gastronomic culture. In October 2010, we also established a new company to produce bio-PET raw materials from bioethanol derived from sugar cane. We thereby formed the world's first global supply chain for bio-PET, with an integrated system spanning raw material procurement, intermediate and final processing and sales.

We believe that promoting environmental management is essential to our mission of living and prospering together with people, society and the Earth, and being trusted by our stakeholders. Accordingly, in fiscal 2010 the Group promoted its certification under the ISO 14001 international standard for environmental management systems. During the year, two of our companies in Japan and two overseas companies received this certification.

Formulation of New Management Vision

The environment in which Toyota Tsusho operates is changing with previously unimaginable speed. To meet the expectations of our shareholders and create new value under these circumstances requires us to adopt a broader perspective and view our business in new ways. To address this need and clarify Toyota Tsusho's objectives for the next 10 years, we have formulated the new GLOBAL 2020 VISION, to be shared among all Group employees worldwide.

In this vision, Toyota Tsusho keeps 2020 in its sights as it establishes priority initiatives such as making contributions in such areas as the evolution of next-generation automobiles, further improvements in living conditions and solving global issues. Furthermore, Toyota Tsusho indicates its corporate “ideal self” as maintaining an unwavering sense of responsibility and securing our customers'trust. We have clearly set out our priorities to achieve environmental sustainability and ensure the trust of our customers.

Going forward with this vision, Toyota Tsusho will pursue CSR initiatives designed to contribute even more to the creation of a sustainable society. In these endeavors, I ask our stakeholders for their continued support in the years ahead.

CSR Policy

Our Behavioral Guidelines describe how we will conduct CSR activities to realize our Corporate Philosophy.

Toyota Tsusho's Corporate Philosophy sets forth the Company's raison d'être and the resolve with which it manages its operations. Our Behavioral Guidelines define a code of action for all executives and employees. Toyota Tsusho's basic management philosophy is based on a Fundamental Philosophy of unchanging ideals that should be passed on to future generations.

Our Behavioral Guidelines describe how we will conduct CSR activities to realize our Corporate Philosophy.

Promotion Structure and Stakeholders

We aim to provide added value that will satisfy all our stakeholders.

In 2005, we reorganized the Corporate Ethics Committee and named it the CSR Committee (chaired by the president), to serve as the central organization for promoting CSR throughout the Group. This committee meets once each year. In June 2010, we placed the Specified Import & Export Control Committee, the Conference on the Global Environment and the Safety Management Improvement Committee under the CSR Committee, to invigorate our CSR activities further.

Within this framework, Toyota Tsusho aims to provide added value to satisfy all stakeholders.

Toyota Tsusho Stakeholders and CSR

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