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Message from Top Management

Kunio Yamada, Chairman & CEO(Left) and Hidetoshi Segi, President and Chief Operating Officer(Right)

Left: Kunio Yamada, Chairman and Representative Director
Right: Hidetoshi Segi, President and Representative Director

In 1899, we founded our pharmaceutical business, currently ROHTO Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., aiming to "save patients with gastropathy increased due to changes in dietary habits," which was a social issue of the time. Since then, we have been growing, primarily in manufacturing and selling gastrointestinal medicines, eye drops, and skin care products as our core enterprise. Amidst a significantly changing external environment and the broadening of our business fields, we have consistently faced societal and customer changes and have been continually taking on new challenges. With conviction that delivering "health" to everyone and leading people and society to "Well-being" is our raison d'être and the most important ideal, in 2019, we established the "ROHTO Group Comprehensive Management Vision 2030 -Connect for Well-being-". For us to keep delivering "Well-being" to persons, sustainable organizational operation and continued growth are essential. Building on these, we will leverage the wisdom of our colleagues, both inside and outside the company, who are connected through our business activities, to vitalize "Tomorrow's World".

Intending to realize a "sustainable Well-being society," we have identified five "Materiality (key issues)" and are advancing our initiatives. To conserve the global environment, we have been striving to diminish environmental impact by continuingly employing new technologies following the concept of the circular economy: for example, taking the lead in refilling cosmetics with pouches, thereby reducing the use of plastic and other resources; switching to environmentally friendly raw materials; minimizing waste and energy consumption; and introducing renewable energy. Also, prioritizing addressing human rights and employment-related issues, we initiated the human rights due diligence process at full scale in fiscal 2024. Additionally, to achieve healthy corporate management, with the establishment of the Sustainability Committee as an advisory body to the Board of Directors in fiscal 2021, we are now facilitating responsible management with transparency to reach the "Sustainability Targets 2030."

Being convinced that "humans" are the most essential element in developing our organization and resolving social issues to lead the world to a more prosperous society, we have also focused on nurturing personnel. ROHTO's human resource development means to foster persons capable of taking on challenges with passion and unconventional thinking to "contribute to society" consistently. To address a broad range of issues that beset modern society and to respond to the changing times, we are committed to develop people of talent who can play an active role both inside and outside the company so that our ties with the whole society to be strengthened and ROHTO maintains its presence as a corporation capable of contributing to the Well-being of every single person and the entire world.

As various sustainability-related issues are interrelated and interact, it is crucial to tackle them from a synthesizing perspective. It also requires collaboration with the entire group, rather than just a specific department or staff members. If we approach these issues as a single company and can even produce some results, there will be limitations. However, through combining forces and working together with our stakeholders, we can expect more significant accomplishments. Only by adopting this approach can the ROHTO Group's management vision, "Connect for Well-being," be translated into action and made a reality.

Continuing to fulfill our corporate social responsibilities, the ROHTO Group will build a foundation for sustainable growth through dialogue with our stakeholders and information disclosure, and pursue the Well-being of people around the world, local communities, and the global environment.


Kunio Yamada
Chairman and Representative Director

Hidetoshi Segi
President and Representative Director