Kao Included “Top 10%” in S&P Global’s Sustainability Yearbook 2025

S&P Global, based in the US, annually evaluates the performance of selected companies with ESG (environmental, social and governance) criteria, and announces the results in its Sustainability Yearbook. From among a total of over 7,690 companies evaluated for the 2025 Yearbook, S&P Global granted “Top 1%” awards to 65 companies, “Top 5%” awards to 75, and “Top 10%” awards to 99, including Kao as “Top 10%”.

Since 2021, Kao has been promoting the Kao Group Mid-term Plan with its vision of “protecting future lives” and “sustainability as the only path.” The Kao Group will continue to integrate its ESG strategy into the core of its company management. It will also develop its business, provide better products and services for consumers and society, and work toward its purpose, “to realize a Kirei world in which all life lives in harmony”.