Kao cited as Most Honored Company in Institutional Investor 's The 2020 All-Japan Executive Team ranking of Japanese companies demonstrating superior performance in IR

This ranking, which Institutional Investor has been compiling since 2013, selects the Japanese business enterprises that have implemented particularly outstanding IR activities, based on voting by institutional investors and securities analysts all over the world.

Kao received a high evaluation for the way its management team delivers meaningful messages to investors, such as management strategy among others, and for its publication of the Kao Integrated Report, which combines non-financial and financial information to bring across the measures that the company is taking to enhance corporate value over the medium to long term. In response to Kao's impressive evaluation in The 2020 All-Japan Executive Team ranking, Shigeru Ueyama, Managing Executive Officer and Senior Vice President for Corporate Strategy, commented that "We are deeply honored by the ranking that we have been given, which reflects how highly the Kao Group's activities are viewed by institutional investors and analysts throughout the world from a global perspective".

The Kao Group is making a major shift to ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) -driven management as a new challenge to build a foundation enabling sustainable growth in 2025, 2030, and beyond. Kao has already begun full-scale implementation of the Kirei Lifestyle Plan, its ESG strategy which was announced in April 2019.
In the future, the Kao Group will be striving to realize even more in-depth stakeholder engagement by means of fair, proactive communication, with the goal of fostering understanding and consensus among all of Kao's stakeholders in relation to Kao's ESG activities and other initiatives.

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