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Toward building good partnerships and fulfilling its social responsibilities with suppliers
The Kao Group strives to conduct purchasing with fairness, according to laws and ethics, and with full consideration to safety and the environment.
We conduct purchasing with fairness, legal compliance and the highest ethics.
We give full consideration to safety and the environment in our purchasing activities, striving to fulfill our corporate social responsibilities.
(1) We determine with fairness suppliers based on rational judgment of quality, price, delivery time, corporate management stability, manufacturing and supply capability, environmental conservation activities and other important elements of candidates.
(2) We provide potential suppliers with the opportunity for fair competition, inside and outside Japan.
(1) We carry out our purchasing in compliance with the letter and spirit of all relevant laws.
(2) We maintain confidentiality regarding all supplier information obtained in our purchasing activities. We also do not engage in purchasing activities which infringe on third party rights such as the intellectual property rights.
(3) We do not conduct reciprocal trade for the purpose of selling our products or services.
(4) We keep entertainment and receipt of gifts involving suppliers within socially acceptable standards. As a principle, we also prohibit the exchange of entertainment and gifts between our purchasing staff and suppliers.
(1) We strive to fulfill our corporate social responsibilities aiming to contribute to the achievement of a sustainable society by giving full consideration to preservation of resources and the environment, safety, human rights and other social issues.
(2) We exchange necessary information with suppliers and evaluate mutually with sincerity trading conditions, mutual behavior and so forth in transactions, striving to improve both sides.
