SUSTAINABILITY AT THE MEDIUS GROUP
Our group handles over one million medical devices and materials, from medical consumables to cutting-edge medical equipment, and has supported the medical field through its supply, contributing to local medical care for many years. Our mission is to "Persistent Medical Care" at any time. In addition to our core business of selling medical equipment, we support the transforming medical field by developing solutions that contribute to efficient logistics and labor saving, and nursing care and welfare services, and create a better medical environment for tomorrow.
The Sustainability Committee played a central role in the review, and the Board of Directors deliberated and approved the materiality issues, which were then identified. Going forward, in order to promote sustainable management from a long-term perspective with the aim of realizing a sustainable society and achieving sustained growth for the Group, we will advance our sustainability activities based on these material issues.
| Material Issues | Subtopics |
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| Stable supplying reliable medical and nursing care equipment |
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| Supporting medical and nursing care transform by using our imagination |
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| Conserving environment |
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| Promoting human resource development that leads to value creation |
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| Balancing sustainable trust and growth |
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We considered and identifiedmateriality through the following process.
We have comprehensively grasped social issues by referring to market changes (mega trends), international guidelines such as the GRI Standards, and evaluation items from ESG evaluation agencies. In order to identify issues for our Group in light of social issues, we conducted a value chain analysis, management/business analysis, mega trend analysis, and stakeholder analysis to identify issues.
We compared the issues extracted in each analysis in STEP 1 against our group's philosophy, policies, strategies, and society's expectations and demands for the group, and organized and consolidated the issues.
The issues organized and summarized in STEP 2 were evaluated along two axes: "the degree of impact the Group has on society and the environment" and "the degree of impact society and the environment have on the Group's management." Issues with a high degree of impact on each were positioned as materiality candidates.
After approval, we identified our materiality.
MEDIUS Group considers sustainability to be an important pillar and has established a "Sustainability Committee" and a "Sustainability Specialist Committee." The committee is chaired by President and CEO Medius Holdings Co., Ltd. and is composed of the Director in charge of sustainability, who serves as Executive Chairman, Executive Officers, Specialist Chairs, and other members, and is responsible for identifying materiality (important issues), formulating strategies and goals, managing and evaluating the progress of measures, and rolling them out to the entire group. Five sustainability specialist committees have been established, and the contents of discussions at each specialist committee are compiled and reported to the Board of Directors through the Sustainability Committee. The Board of Directors oversees the status of initiatives by the executive side and provides feedback to the Sustainability Committee.
