Kao issued its first Environment, Safety and Health Report in 1998. In 2005, we upgraded to a CSR Report that introduced our business operations from the viewpoint of corporate social responsibility (CSR), disclosing and supplying information in response to the interests and concerns of various stakeholders.
In this report, we describe the policies and details of our day-to-day CSR activities promoted in accordance with The Kao Way, our corporate philosophy, along with their progress.
As the scope of the Kao Group's CSR activities expands, the amount of information included in this booklet version of the CSR Report increases every year. This has led to some readers commenting that they were discouraged by the report's excessive length. In response to this feedback, since 2008 information contained in the hardcopy version of the CSR Report mainly relates to material issues that have attracted the interest of society or for which disclosure is highly requested, as well as activities where remarkable progress has been made. Any information concerning the Kao Group's CSR activities which cannot be included in the hardcopy report can be found on the Kao Web site.
