Nadeshiko Brands and Semi-Nadeshiko Brands Selected for FY2021

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1. Outline of the Nadeshiko Brands

The Nadeshiko Brand initiative aims to introduce TSE-listed enterprises that are outstanding in terms of encouraging women's success in the workplace as attractive stocks to investors. An emphasis is put on improving corporate value in the mid- and long-term, thereby further raising investors' interest in such enterprises, and accelerating further the efforts for encouraging women’s success in the workplace.

METI and the TSE assessed enterprises among approximately 3,700 enterprises listed on all TSE sections by scoring them based on their efforts necessary for diversity management to improve corporate value and the level of information disclosure concerning the efforts. Following this, they selected 50 high-scoring enterprises from each industry as Nadeshiko Brands.

Continuing from the previous fiscal year, METI and the TSE decided to award a higher score to enterprises that have multiple female board members and executive officers.

Moreover, METI and the TSE selected 15 enterprises as "Semi-Nadeshiko Brands" out of the high-scoring enterprises that have been ranked as candidate enterprises but have not been selected as Nadeshiko Brands. These enterprises were selected regardless of the industry to which they belong.

1. In the Nadeshiko Brand initiative, enterprises which have answered the Survey on Enterprises Encouraging Women's Success in the Workplace will be assessed based on certain criteria, e.g., screening requirements and scoring criteria for measuring women's success in the workplace. Outstanding enterprises will be selected as Nadeshiko Brands: if they are high-scoring enterprises in a predetermined selection block for the industry to which they belong and if [i] they have won higher scores equivalent to 85% or more of the total scores that the top enterprise in the same industry has won and [ii] they have been ranked at about the top 15% or more among all candidate enterprises.

2. METI and the TSE will select "Semi-Nadeshiko Brands" out of the high-scoring enterprises that have been ranked within the top 15% or higher of all candidate enterprises but have not been selected as Nadeshiko Brands. These enterprises are selected regardless of the industry to which they belong.

2. Selected enterprises as Nadeshiko Brands or Semi-Nadeshiko Brands (in the order of securities code by industry category)

The selected Nadeshiko Brands are shown in pink cells, while the selected Semi-Nadeshiko Brands are shown in orange cells. The enterprises selected as Nadeshiko Brands in past fiscal years are shown with a dot in pink (●), while those selected as Semi-Nadeshiko Brands in past fiscal years are shown with a dot in white (〇).

Name of industry type	Securities code	Name of selected enterprise	Selected year
			FY 2012	FY 2013	FY 2014	FY 2015	FY 2016	FY 2017	FY 2018	FY 2019	FY 2020
Fishery, agriculture and forestry, and foods	2229	Calbee, Inc.		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	〇
	2502	Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd.	●			●	●	●	〇	●	●
	2503	Kirin Holdings Company, Limited					〇	●	●	〇	●
	2802	Ajinomoto Co., Inc..						●	●	〇	〇
	1332	Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd.
	2914	Japan Tobacco Inc.				●			●	●
Mining, oil and coal products	5021	Cosmo Energy Holdings Co., Ltd.								●
Construction	1808	Haseko Corporation
	1878	Daito Trust Construction Co., Ltd.
	1951	EXEO Group, Inc.								●	〇
Textiles and apparel	3401	TEIJIN LIMITED					〇	●	●	●	●
Pulp and paper	3861	Oji Holdings Corporation						●			●
Chemicals	4183	Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.							●	〇	●
	4631	DIC Corporation							●	●	●
	4911	Shiseido Company, Limited								〇	●
	4922	KOSÉ Corporation									〇
	4204	SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.					●	●		●	●
Pharmaceuticals	4519	Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.			●	●	●	●			●
Glass and clay products	5334	NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.					〇		●
Iron and steel	5602	Kurimoto, Ltd.
Non-ferrous metals	5802	Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.					●		●		●
Metal products	5957	NITTOSEIKO CO., LTD.
Machinery	6289	GIKEN LTD.
	6471	NSK Ltd.								●	●
Electrical equipment	6594	Nidec Corporation							●		〇
	6645	OMRON Corporation						●	●	●	●
	6674	GS Yuasa Corporation
	6504	FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.				●	●	●	〇
	6856	HORIBA, Ltd.							●	●	●
Rubber products and transportation equipment	7259	AISIN CORPORATION								〇	●
Precision machines	7701	SHIMADZU CORPORATION					●	●	●	●	●
Other products	7911	Toppan Inc.								●	●
	7912	Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.							〇	〇	〇
Electricity and gas	9532	Osaka Gas Co., Ltd.		●	●	●	●	●			〇
Land, marine and air transportation	9005	TOKYU CORPORATION	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Maritime transportation and air transportation	9104	Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd.									●
Information and communication	4307	Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.					●	●	●	●	●
	4739	ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation							〇	〇	〇
	8056	Nihon Unisys, Ltd.							〇	〇	〇
	9613	NTT DATA Corporation					〇		〇	●	●
	9719	SCSK Corporation			●	●	●	●	●	●	●
	3626	TIS Inc.
	9749	FUJI SOFT INCORPORATED
Wholesale trade	2768	Sojitz Corporation					●	●	●	●	●
	8001	ITOCHU Corporation				●
	8015	Toyota Tsusho Corporation	●
	8031	Mitsui & Co., Ltd.			●	●	〇	●	〇	●	●
Retail trade	2685	Adastria Co., Ltd.									〇
	3086	J. FRONT RETAILING Co., Ltd.								〇	〇
	8252	MARUI GROUP CO., LTD..						●	●	●	●
Banking	7182	JAPAN POST BANK Co., Ltd.
	8303	Shinsei Bank, Limited									〇
	8308	Resona Holdings, Inc.			●	●	●		〇
	8316	Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc.	●		●		●		●	●
	8331	The ChibaBank, Ltd..						●	●	●	●
	8306	Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.		●							●
Securities and commodities futures	8601	Daiwa Securities Group Inc.			●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Insurance and other financing business	8725	MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, Inc.							〇	●	●
	8439	Tokyo Century Corporation					●		〇	〇	〇
	8566	RICOH LEASING COMPANY, LTD.				●
	8630	Sompo Holdings, Inc.						●	●	●	●
	8766	Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc.		●		●	〇	●	●	〇	〇
Real estate	8801	Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd.
Services	2168	Pasona Group, Inc.								〇
	2395	SHIN NIPPON BIOMEDICAL LABORATORIES, LTD.

3. FY2021 Report on the Nadeshiko Brands

METI will publicize the FY2021 Report on the Nadeshiko Brands on its website. This report introduces "Noteworthy Enterprises," selected as outstanding enterprises that have been advancing representative efforts for women's success in the workplace, and contains a "Nadeshiko Challenge List" showing outstanding enterprises engaging in efforts for women's success in the workplace, and the current level of their information disclosure.
This year's "Noteworthy Enterprises" includes features on "Efforts introduced to increase women employees' motivation to pursue promotions and their outcomes" and "Efforts implemented to promote women to managerial positions, following revisions to the corporate governance code."

• Nadeshiko Brands: Enterprises Outstanding in Terms of Encouraging Women's Success in the Workplace (in Japanese)

(Details of the report)

• Message from METI Minister Hagiuda Koichi (video clip)
• Message from TSE Director Konuma Yasuyuki (video clip)
• Economic and Social Policy Office, METI: The future of the "Nadeshiko Brands" (video clip)
• List of the FY2021 winners
• FY2021 Report on the Nadeshiko Brands

Reference

• TSE: Release of the FY2021 Report on the Nadeshiko Brands (in Japanese)
• METI: New Diversity Management Selection 100 Program (in Japanese)

Division in Charge

Economic and Social Policy Office, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau