Reinforcing Group governance

Reinforcing Group governance

The Pigeon Group (“the Group”) consists of Pigeon Corporation (“the Company”) and 25 consolidated subsidiaries, with the Global Head Office (“GHO”) overseeing all Group companies and four business segments: Japan Business, China Business, Singapore Business, and Lansinoh Business. The GHO operates the business.We believe that the key issues for the Group are how to make governance work on both the “offensive” and “defensive” sides of Group management, how to optimize the business portfolio, and how to implement effective Group governance, with the aim of improving the Group's growth and profitability over the medium to long term. We believe that these are important issues for the Group, and we have made “strengthening group governance” a specific issue.

Pigeon Group Corporate Philosophy

The Pigeon Group believes that it is important for all employees to understand and respect the Pigeon DNA, the Pigeon Way, and our purpose as the basis of all our activities, and we are continuously working to promote their understanding.

Pigeon DNA・Pigeon Way 

Approach to Strengthening Group Governance

As a shareholder, the Company shall be involved in important decision-making at the Board of Directors and other meetings of each group company through active dialogue based on a relationship of trust, and shall promote collaboration among all businesses and group companies, including the Company.In addition, we will share and practice PigeonDNA and PigeonWay within the group, respond quickly and appropriately to changes in the business environment and sustainability requirements under the leadership of GHO, and evolve the group's business portfolio into a more solid one in order to maximize corporate value. We will strive to maximize corporate value by evolving the Group's business portfolio more firmly.

Internal Controls

In order to operate the organization in a sound and efficient manner, we have determined a basic policy for the establishment of an internal control system in accordance with the Companies Act and the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Companies Act, and based on this policy, we have established and are operating an internal control system for the entire Group.

Risk Management

In accordance with the Risk Management Regulations, the Company has established a GHO Risk Management Committee under the President and Representative Director, chaired by the director in charge of GHO, and a Risk Management Committee under the GHO Risk Management Committee, chaired by the general manager of each business segment (Japan business, China business, Singapore business, and Lansinoh business). This system enables us to consolidate and control risk information related to the entire Group as well as to take prompt actions for each business segment.