Employee Volunteer

Basic policy

The Suntory Group conducts a wide range of social contribution activities based on its spirit of Giving back to Society, but a relationship between society and every Group employee is also important.
We actively suggest that employees use time created through work style reform promoted throughout the entire Group to participate in employee volunteer activities to discover new value and serve as opportunities for individual growth.

Providing Opportunities to Volunteer

We launched the internal company website Suntory Volunteers. In addition to volunteer information, we post information that allows users to learn about actual volunteering experience through formats such as "Volunteer Activity Diary," "Experience Reports," and "Volunteer Roundtable" based on the catchphrase "It is enriching to be able to use my abilities outside of work."
Additionally, Suntory Volunteers has partnered with Volunteer Web (provided by the Japan Philanthropic Association) to use its activity introduction and application system.
We have worked with NPOs to create a package of programs for The Let’s Cut Fabric and Picture Book Delivery international contribution volunteer activities, and posted them on "Suntory Volunteers" so that employees themselves can hold the events at locations of their own choice. Furthermore, we established the Volunteer Leave Program as part of this support system.

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  Internal Volunteer information Site
  Suntory Volunteers

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  Volunteer Web

Food donation drive

At the end of the year, we volunteer to donate food and write letters to single-parent households.

Disaster Relief Volunteers and Employee Donations

In order to reflect our employees' desire to help people in disaster-stricken areas, we are planning "Volunteer Support for Disaster-stricken Areas" and "Employee Donation" activities.
We will support the employees to deliver their feelings as Good Pearson to the disaster-stricken areas.

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  Volunteer Activities in the Disaster Area

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  Donation activities for volunteer groups in the affected areas

Kumamoto Flower Project Volunteer Activity

Hojukai Assisting with Window Cleaning at Senior Care Facilities and Nursery School Sports Events

Each year Suntory Group employees perform gardening, window cleaning, provide management support for sports events, and other work together with facility staff at elderly care facilities and child daycare centers operated by the social welfare organization Hojukai. Also, new employees of the Suntory Group also participate in volunteer activities such as road cleaning and weed removal after receiving training at each facility regarding the history of the Hojukai and the founders' ideas about social contribution.

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  Volunteers busy
  cleaning windows

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  Volunteers at work planting flowers
  and pulling weeds

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  Volunteers at a sports event
  held at Tsubomi Nursery School

Volunteering to run events for groups that won the Suntory Prize for Community Cultural Activities

We work to improve communications with local communities and deepen our understanding of local culture by volunteering to run events for groups that won the Suntory Prize for Community Cultural Activities.

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  Volunteer for mowing and tree-planting in
  “Kuruchi no Mori Project in Yomitan”

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  Innoshima Suigun Matsuri
  operations volunteers

Volunteer Activities at Offices

At each Suntory Group business site across Japan, volunteers clean up the area around the site and volunteer to put stickers to translate picture books to be sent to refugee camp facilities overseas.

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  Employees volunteer to
  clean up around the plant

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  Translation and sticker application of
  picture books to be sent to refugee
  camp facilities

Volunteer Activities by Group Companies in Japan

Supporting the Kiritappu Wetland National Trust -- Häagen-Dazs Japan, Inc.

Häagen-Dazs Japan has been providing support for the Kiritappu Wetland National Trust in Hamanaka, Akkeshi since 2007 for the Konsen ward of Hokkaido, which is a production area of milk used as an ingredient for ice cream. Kiritappu Wetland has also been registered in Ramsar Convention in 1993 as the third largest wetland in Japan. Our employees are conducting volunteer activities to preserve the scenery of the wetlands by repairing the boardwalk together with the local people every year in addition to providing financial support. These volunteer activities are planned to be continued every year with 2018 being the 12th year of these activities.

Landscape repair of boardwalk (2014)

Supporting the Revitalization of Communities with Flowers -- Suntory Flowers Ltd.

Suntory Flowers is providing flowers for areas such as parks to allow even more people to experience a life in a community with flowers. The Red Flower Project has expanded throughout Japan since 2012 to play a role in revitalizing communities by planting flowers in parks and public facilities in each area of Japan under the slogan, "Revitalizing Japan with Red Flowers!" We donated Surfinia Red flowers to organization in each community in Japan. From 2015, we have expanded the scope of our activities even further to engage in "Big Flower Project." In addition, we will continue our activities from 2019 to make as many people smile as possible through the power of flowers, focusing on reconstruction assistance in Tohoku and Kumamoto as part of the Tomorrow's Flowers Project.

Red Flower Planting Project

Group Company's Sustainability

Volunteer Activities by Overseas Group Companies