Material issues
VITAL KSK Holdings assessed the importance of various issues from the perspectives of social trends, stakeholder expectations, and the potential contribution to improving corporate value. After repeated discussions by the Sustainability Committee, we identified the following material issues and formulated initiatives to address them.
Process for Identifying Material Issues
Identifying issues
When considering the kind of society we want to create and what we want to do through business operations, we must not forget that our primary mission in dealing with healthcare products is to deliver pharmaceuticals to people who need them, when they need them. While focusing on this mission, we also identified issues from other perspectives, such as the Company’s evaluation by various institutions as well as dialogues with and requests from stakeholders.
Assessing identified issues
Identified issues were classified into ESG (environmental, social, and governance) categories, as initiatives to create a sustainable society and assessing the importance (materiality) of each issue.
Identifying material issues
Based on the assessment of material issues, the Sustainability Committee held additional discussions and identified five key material issues. We also linked these to the 17 goals and 169 targets of the UN’s SDGs.
Risks and Opportunities by Material Issue
SDG Initiatives
We believe that the Group’s operations and initiatives will contribute achieving the 17 SDGs adopted at the United Nations Summit in September 2015.
SDG initiatives by Group Companies