News Release

Kao Discontinues Provision of Hair Bundle Color Samples for Hair Color Sections to Reduce Plastic Use and Is Now Utilizing AR Hair Color Simulation

Kao Announces Its Participation in the Meguru Box Project, a Pilot Project for Recycling Used Plastics, in Kitakyushu City, Japan

The Kao Group's Largest Photovoltaic Power Generating Facility, with a Power Generation Capacity of 2.8 MW, Begins Operation at Sakata Plant in Japan

Kao Group Revamps its Corporate Philosophy—the Kao Way

Kao Continues to be Included in All of the ESG Indices Selected by the Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF)

Kao Releases Progress Reports on its ESG Strategy—the Kirei Lifestyle Plan

Kao Releases the Kao Integrated Report 2021

Retirement of Treasury Shares

Kao is Participating in a Project to Efficiently Recycle Plastics through Integrated Arterial and Venous Physical Distribution in Tokyo's Dai-Maru-Yu Area

Kao Aims for Material Recycling of Plastic Bottles for Cosmetics, Begins Using Chemically Recycled PET Material

Kao Is Aiming to Reduce Its CO2 Emissions to Zero by 2040, and to Be Carbon Negative by 2050

Unilever Japan and Kao Launch a Collaborative Plastic Recycling Program

Consolidated Financial Results for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2021 [IFRS] (Jan. 1, 2021 - Mar. 31, 2021)

Status of Repurchase of the Company's Stock and its Completion (Stock Repurchase in accordance with Articles of Incorporation pursuant to Article 165, paragraph 2 of the Corporation Law)

Entries Now Open for the Twelfth Kao International Environment Painting Contest for Children

Launch of Hair Salon Brand "ORIBE" in Japan Aiming to Strengthen Global Strategies

SENSAI to Launch Official Online Store in Europe

Kao Moves Up Its Target Year for Seeing 100% of Electricity the Company Purchases in Japan and Globally Sourced from Renewable Energy

Status of Repurchase of the Company's Stock (Stock Repurchase in accordance with Articles of Incorporation pursuant to Article 165, paragraph 2 of the Corporation Law)

Kao to Start Using 100% Recycled Plastic for its Bottles in Japan