| 2025 |
- Formulates and announces the Sharp Group Human Rights Policy
- Formulates and announces the Sharp Group DEI Policy
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| 2024 |
- Joins the RE100, a global initiative that aims to have businesses use 100% renewable energy
- Awarded a Bronze rating in the Pride Index 2024, an evaluation index for LGBTQ+ related workplace initiatives
- Joins the TNFD (Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures) Forum in support of the TNFD’s mission and actions
- Sharp Corporation and five affiliated companies* join the 30by30 Alliance for Biodiversity, organized by the Japanese Ministry of the Environment
- Sets up 10 sustainability subcommittees under the Sustainability Committee, each focused on specific sustainability issues
- Sharp Energy Solutions Corporation, Sharp Jusda Logistics Corporation, Sharp Display Manufacturing Corporation, Sharp Tokusen Industry Co., Ltd., Sharp Electronics Sales Okinawa Corporation
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| 2023 |
- Launches Sustainability Committee, chaired by the president and CEO, to strengthen the Sharp Group’s sustainability and ESG efforts
- Launches Company-wide Quality Committee as a way to advance quality technologies by ensuring quality in fields such as new business and deciding policies for dealing with quality-related issues
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| 2022 |
- Executes “Management Emphasizing on ESG” under the new CEO
(1) Further Strengthen Healthcare Related Business
(2) Contribute to Carbon Neutral
(3) HITO-based Management
(4) True Global Company
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| 2021 |
- Announces new direction of business management
(“Realization of Our Business Vision”, “Establishing SHARP, a Powerful Corporate Brand”)
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| 2020 |
- Launches production and sales of face masks in response to Covid-19
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| 2019 |
- Launches efforts to contribute to the SDGs through business and technological innovation and by reducing the social and environmental toll of business activities
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| 2018 |
- Formulates “SHARP Eco Vision 2050”, a new long-term environmental vision for 2050
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| 2017 |
- Announces Fiscal 2017–2019 Medium-Term Management Plan
- Formulates new business vision "Changing the World with 8K and AIoT"
- Establishes Quality and Environmental Technologies Committee to assure quality in new technology areas and share information related to quality and environmental issues arising in new products
- Revises Basic Policy for Internal Control
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| 2016 |
- Launches SHARP Global SER Committee for strengthening Social and Environmental Responsibility
- Formulates Sharp's new corporate motto "Be Original."
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| 2015 |
- Revises Sharp Group Charter of Corporate Behavior and the Sharp Code of Conduct
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| 2014 |
- Formulates action-reform declaration stipulating specific actions in line with Sharp's business philosophy and business creed
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| 2013 |
- Develops and puts into practical use plastic recycling technology for used flat-panel TVs
- Formulates Sharp Group Business Continuity Plan Guidelines, which include BCP basic policy of Sharp Group
- Establishes "Increase Green Shared Value" as a new environmental policy
- Appoints Sharp's first female director
- Integrates the CSR/BRM Committee and Compliance Committee to launch the CSR/Compliance Committee
- Sharp China provides environmental education to a total of 10,000 elementary school children in China
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| 2012 |
- Holds 'My Sharp Our Future' cause-related marketing campaign for the ASEAN, Oceania, and Middle East regions
- Provides environmental education to 180,000 elementary school children in Japan at a total of 3,000 schools
- Sharp Tokusen Industry begins career education support programs for special-needs schools in Japan
- Establishes the Global Basic Policy on Information Security
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| 2011 |
- Appoints Sharp's first female executive officer
- Education support activities, such as environmental classes for elementary school children, given to a total of 150,000 children in Japan
- Revises safety and health basic policy into the global Sharp Group Basic Policies on Safety and Health
- Begins biodiversity protection activities in Ramsar Convention wetlands in Japan
- Appoints Sharp's first non-Japanese executive officer
- Education support activities for children given at a total of 3,000 schools worldwide
- Expresses support for the United Nations Sustainable Energy for All initiative
- Achieves fiscal 2012 goal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions (under its corporate vision of becoming an Eco-Positive Company) one year ahead of schedule
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| 2010 |
- Revises Sharp Group Charter of Corporate Behavior and the Sharp Code of Conduct
- Establishes "Eco-Positive Company" as Sharp's corporate vision
- Begins an educational program that combines factory tours and environmental/craftsmanship lessons
- Expresses support for the Women's Empowerment Principles, created by UNIFEM (now UN Women) and the UN Global Compact
- Creates 12th Sharp Forest in Japan
- Completes acquisition of OHSAS 18001 certification at main production sites in Japan
- Sharp and 10 other companies of GREEN FRONT SAKAI acquire ISO 14001 certification
- Constructs the Global Green Supply Chain, a new scheme for managing substances
- Constructs an environmental safety operations audit system
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| 2009 |
- Establishes the Compliance Promotion Team within the Legal Affairs Division of the CSR Promotion Group
- Sharp's test site certified to carry out testing needed to apply for the Blue Angel Mark, a German environmental label
- Achieves its fiscal 2010 environmental vision two years earlier than planned and sets forth a new environmental vision of "Becoming an Eco-Positive Company"
- Appoints an outside director
- Joins the United Nations Global Compact
- Environmental education given to a total of 100,000 children in Japan
- Begins outdoor environmental education program in Japan
- Distributes Sharp Group Compliance Guidebook for all employees in Japan
- Begins environmental education at special-needs schools for the hearing impaired in Japan
- Joins WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) Japan
- Total volume of plastic recycled and used by closed-loop material recycling reaches 5,050 tons
- Begins Eco Best Practice Forums
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| 2008 |
- Reorganizes the CSR Promotion Department and the Legal Affairs Division to establish the CSR Promotion Group
- Begins the new SGF Ⅱ environmental policy at its plants
- Introduces the executive officer system
- Begins environmental education for elementary schools overseas
- AQUOS R Series LCD TVs become the first consumer electronics products to bear the GE (Green Energy) Mark
- Establishes the Compliance Committee
- Establishes the Social Contribution Promotion Department under the CSR Promotion Group
- Sharp Corporation acquires the Privacy Mark
- Establishes the positions of Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) and Compliance Officer (CO) to strengthen the compliance promotion system company-wide
- Environmental education program given to a total of 1,000 schools in Japan
- Begins craftsmanship education program for elementary schools
- Reorganizes the Corporate Equal Partnership Project Team into the Diversity Development Team
- Builds a flat-panel TV recycling line at Plant No. 2 of Kansai Recycling Systems
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| 2007 |
- Begins purification of reservoir water, a new environmental social contribution activity
- Publishes the Sharp Supply-Chain CSR Deployment Guidebook
- Establishes the Sharp Voluntary Product Safety Action Policy
- Introduces the Green Office certification system
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| 2006 |
- Begins environmental education for elementary schools in cooperation with the Weathercaster Network NPO
- Kansai Recycling Systems begins operation of a second plant
- Introduces an Integrated Management System for the first time in the industry
- Establishes the Internal Control Committee
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| 2005 |
- Develops practical plant-based paint and adopts them for use in AQUOS LCD TVs
- Begins certification of Super Green Devices
- Certifies SMF in France as the first Super Green Factory outside of Japan
- Establishes the Committee for Compliance with the Energy Conservation Law as a Shipper
- Revises the Sharp Charter of Conduct into the Sharp Group Charter of Corporate Behavior and the Sharp Code of Conduct
- Revises the Basic Purchasing Principles
- Expands coverage of the social dimention of Sharp's CSR activities in the Environmental Report and changes its title to "Environmental and Social Report"
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| 2004 |
- Formulates the corporate vision of "Sharps' energy-creating and energy-saving products will more than balance out Sharp's greenhouse gas emissions"
- Establishes the mid-term objective of becoming an "environmentally advanced company"
- Begins certification of Super Green Products
- Begins certification of Green Devices
- Begins creation of Sharp Forests in Japan
- Establishes the Information Security Promotion Department and Personal Information Protection Promotion Department
- Revises the Basic Purchasing Principles from the viewpoint of CSR
- Establishes the Corporate Equal Partnership Project Team
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| 2003 |
- Puts closed-loop plastic material recycling technology to practical use
- Establishes the Sharp Green Club
- Starts Super Green Strategy
- Certifies the Kameyama Plant as Sharp's first Super Green Factory
- Revises the Sharp Business Standards and Action Guidelines into the Sharp Charter of Conduct
- Begins renewed R-CATS small-group activities
- Establishes the CSR Promotion Department
- Reorganizes the BRM Committee into the CSR/BRM Committee
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| 2002 |
- Achieves zero discharge to landfill at all Japanese production sites
- Establishes the Environmental Compliance Committee
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| 2001 |
- Launches Green Engineering training
- Starts Super Green Initiatives
- Acquires ISO 14001 certification at major bases of all sales and service companies in Japan
- Establishes the BRM (Business Risk Management) Committee
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| 2000 |
- All Japanese sites introduce the Green Procurement System
- Introduces environmental accounting system
- Launches environmental solutions business
- Establishes company-wide chemical substance management committee
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| 1999 |
- Environmental Report published
- Kansai Recycling Systems Co., Ltd. established
- Trial introduction of the environmental accounting system
- Issues Green Factory Guidelines
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| 1998 |
- Begins the environmental 3G-1R strategy
- Green Products Guidelines published
- Sharp Green Seal system introduced
- Green Mind Campaign started
- Institutes the Sharp Business Standards and Action Guidelines
- Establishes the Investor Relations Office
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| 1997 |
- Holds the Global Environmental Conference
- Establishes the Environmental Protection Group
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| 1996 |
- Achieves the Waste Reduction Voluntary Plan goal
- Starts an all-company effort to create Green Products
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| 1995 |
- Revises the Product Assessment Guidelines
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| 1994 |
- Phases out ozone-depleting chemicals in the cleansing process of all operations
- Phases out vinyl chloride in all packaging
- Establishes the C-PA (Chemical Product Assessment) system
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| 1993 |
- Holds the First Environmental Strategy Conference
- Announces the Voluntary Plan on the Environment
- Begins registration of persons in charge of environmental management at overseas bases
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| 1992 |
- Enacts the Sharp Environmental Charter and Basic Environmental Conservation Guidelines
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| 1991 |
- Appoints a Corporate Director for Environmental Management
- Establishes the Environmental Activities Promotion Department
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| 1988 |
- Establishes the Legal Affairs Division
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| 1987 |
- Establishes the CFC Regulation Countermeasure Committee
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| 1979 |
- Establishes the First Synthetic Energy Committee
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| 1973 |
- Formulates the Business Philosophy and Business Creed
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| 1972 |
- Establishes 10 Consumer Information Centers around Japan
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| 1971 |
- Establishes the Environmental Technology Center
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