President of the Global Compact Network Japan. Our CEO, Yoshinori Isozaki, has been offered a job.

TOKYO, June 2, 2025 - Kirin Holdings Company Limited is pleased to announce that its Representative Director of the Board & CEO, Yoshinori Isozaki, is in line to be appointed as the next Chair of the Board of the Global Compact Network Japan (Chair of the Board Toshio Arima, hereinafter GCNJ). His appointment is expected to be approved at the GCNJ Annual General Meeting and Board of Directors meeting on 25 June (Wednesday).

Since its inception in 2003, GCNJ has been working as a platform for the realisation of a sustainable global environment and society. It is currently supporting 652 participant companies and organizations in Japan to realise the Global Compact Ten Principles*1 and the SDGs.
The Company has adopted CSV management, which simultaneously creates social and economic value by utilising its strengths to solve social issues, and this is the driving force behind its sustainable growth. We joined the GCNJ in 2005 when we expressed our commitment to the UN Global Compact. Since then, we have been active in the platform, participating in working groups and seminars on environmental and social issues. Going forward, we will continue to tackle issues common to the entire Group and contribute to sustainable growth around the world through the GCNJ.
*1 The ten principles in four areas (human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption) set out in the UN Global Compact are all recognised by the international community as universal values that have been adopted and agreed worldwide. For more information, see URL. URL:https://www.ungcjn.org/library/files/10principles.pdfPDF：2.5MB

The Kirin Group contributes to the realisation of a spiritually rich society by expanding new joys in food and health through manufacturing that focuses on nature and people.

About the UN Global Compact

As a special initiative of the UN Secretary-General, the United Nations Global Compact is a call to companies everywhere to align their operations and strategies with ten universal principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption, and to take action in support of UN goals. With more than 20,000 companies based in over 160 countries, and more than 60 Global Compact Country Networks, it is the largest corporate sustainability initiative in the world.

A voluntary initiative for each company and organisation to act as a good member of society and achieve sustainable growth by exercising responsible and creative leadership, the companies and organisations that sign up to the UN Global Compact express their commitment by the top management to protecting human rights, eliminating unfair labour practices, addressing environmental concerns, and enforcing anti-corruption measures and just governance and to continue to work towards their realisation.

For Reference. About Global Compact Network Japan | Organisation Profile | Global Compact Network Japan (ungcjn.org)
https://www.ungcjn.org/gcnj/about_gcnj.html

About Kirin Holdings

Kirin Holdings Company, Limited is an international company that operates in the Food & Beverages domain (Food & Beverages businesses), Pharmaceuticals domain (Pharmaceuticals businesses), and Health Science domain (Health Science business), both in Japan and across the globe.

Kirin Holdings can trace its roots to Japan Brewery which was established in 1885. Japan Brewery became Kirin Brewery in 1907. Since then, the company expanded its business with fermentation and biotechnology as its core technologies, and entered the pharmaceutical business in the 1980s, all of which continue to be global growth centers. In 2007, Kirin Holdings was established as a pure holding company and is currently focusing on boosting its Health Science domain.

Under the Kirin Group Vision 2027 (KV 2027), a long-term management plan launched in 2019, the Kirin Group aims to become “A global leader in CSV*, creating value across our world of Food & Beverages to Pharmaceuticals.” Going forward, the Kirin Group will continue to leverage its strengths to create both social and economic value through its businesses, with the aim of achieving sustainable growth in corporate value.

* Creating Shared Value. combined added value for consumers as well as for society at large.