SC Foods Initiatives

Food Safety Enriching Our Daily Lives with Flavor and Passion for a Sustainable Future: Based on the Sumitomo Corporation Group’s priority initiative, “Six Material Issues to Achieve Sustainable Growth with Society,” we utilize our position as a food expert that consistently provides safe, reliable, and high-quality products to contribute solutions to social issues through our business activities and to pursue the realization of a sustainable society where every individual can live a healthy life with a sense of security.

Contribution through
Business Activities
that address Material Issues

Social
Contributions

Relationship with Society

By providing safe and reliable products, maintaining good relationships with our business partners, creating a work place where employees feel motivated, and conducting social contribution activities in local communities, we aim to be a company that is forever trusted, not only by all the customers that support our business but also by the society at large.
Food Safety
Management

Safe and reliable
food products for all

As a food trading company, SC Foods conducts a strict management throughout its supply chain, from selection of production sites around the world, procurement of raw materials, product development, and production/processing management to logistics and domestic distribution, with a view to providing safe, reliable, and high-quality products.
Environmental
Consideration

Achieving Harmony with
the Global Environment

Our business activities rely on food materials that are Nature’s greatest gifts on Earth. We give due consideration to the impact of our business activities on the environment and make every effort to achieve sustainable development aimed at both social and economic progress along with environmental preservation.

Sustainable Procurement

Sumitomo Corporation Group's Material Issues

In April 2017, Sumitomo Corporation Group identified its material issues that illustrate the relationships between its business activities and society. They have defined the Six Material Issues to achieve Sustainable Growth with Society as an important factor in developing business strategies and in the decision-making process for individual businesses. Going forward, we at SC Foods will pursue sustainable growth by resolving these issues through our business activities.

Enhancing Governance
Achieving Harmony with the Global Environment
Establishing a Foundation for Comfortable and Enriching Lifestyles
Developing Human Resources and Promoting Diversity
Contributing to the Development of Local Communities and Industries
Providing Diverse “Accessibility”

SC Foods possesses resources across a broad range of food-related fields, from procurement to logistics. By aligning those resources to achieve a sustainable society, we would be able to change existing profit structure and increase economic value while simultaneously creating new social values. In these days, in addition to being safe, reliable, and high in quality, attractive food products and ingredients need to be associated with initiatives toward addressing environmental and social issues in all stages from procurement of raw materials to distribution. Such initiatives include consideration to the environment, preservation of natural resources, and respect for human rights of workers in relation to the supply chain. Integrating sustainability into core business strategies, we will continue to pursue new challenges and innovations as a member of the Sumitomo Corporation Group that continues to expand globally, by focusing on customer needs and providing attractive food products and ingredients that contribute to a sustainable future.

CSR Initiatives for Supply Chain Management

The Sumitomo Corporation Group has established the CSR Action Guidelines for Supply Chain Management. Through the implementation of these guidelines, we seek to realize a sustainable society by working together with our suppliers and business partners to achieve socially responsible value chain management.

The Sumitomo Corporation Group CSR Action Guidelines for Supply Chain Management

Established in November 2009
Revised in November 2013

The Sumitomo Corporation Group aims to be a global organization that, by constantly staying a step ahead in dealing with change, creating new value, and contributing broadly to society, strives to achieve prosperity and realize the dreams of all our stakeholders through sound business activities in strict adherence to our Corporate Mission Statement, and the management style principle contained therein, wherein prime importance is given to integrity and sound management with the utmost respect being paid to the individual.

In order to promote sustainability and social wellbeing in accordance with our mission, the Sumitomo Corporation Group hereby sets down these CSR Action Guidelines for Supply Chain Management. With a view to further strengthening the global relations which form one of the foundations of our core competence of integrated corporate strength, we request our suppliers and business partners to kindly accept, understand, and practice these guidelines so that together we can achieve responsible value chain management.

Our suppliers and business partners are expected to:

Respect human rights and not to be complicit in human rights abuses
Prevent forced labor, child labor and the payment of unfairly low wages
Not engage in discriminatory employment practices
Respect the rights of employees to associate freely in order to ensure open and fair negotiations between labor and management
Provide employees with safe and healthy work environments
Protect the global environment and give due consideration to biodiversity
Ensure the quality and safety of products and services
Ensure fair business transactions, to abide by all applicable laws, rules and regulations, and to prevent extortion, bribery and all other forms of corrupt business practices
Ensure appropriate information security
Cooperate with members of local host communities and contribute to sustainable regional development
Disclose information regarding the above in a manner both timely and appropriate.

Compliance with the UK’s Modern Slavery Act 2015

In accordance with the UK’s Modern Slavery Act 2015, the Board of Directors are resolved to eradicate slavery in the workforce and human trafficking around the world, together with our business partners and clients.

FY2022 Statement(PDF/162KB)