Daikin Industries, Ltd. announces its selection for the “SX (Sustainability Transformation) Brands 2025,” which is jointly awarded by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). SX Brands denote outstanding companies listed on the TSE that are selected for enhancing their ability to create a source of funds for growth in a sustainable manner through the SX to realize corporate value enhancement. The award was established to introduce brands that attract investors emphasizing corporate value enhancement in the medium to long term, and this is the second year that the award has been presented. Daikin was among 13 other companies selected this time, marking the second consecutive year for the company to receive the award.
For Daikin, the ideal long-term value creation is to provide new value that makes people and spaces healthy and comfortable while reducing environmental impact. In its strategic management plan “Fusion 25” aimed at 2025, the company focused on three growth strategy themes: “Challenging Carbon Neutrality”, “Advancing Customer-Related Business Solutions” and “Creating Value with Air”. Daikin has already identified the Group’s key themes to realize these goals and has begun work on implementing them.
This time, the following key points were evaluated in the selection:
Daikin prioritizes climate action that is closely related to its business, and clearly explains its goal to achieve both business growth and environmental and social issues to further enhance its corporate value in the medium to long term.
In formulating its strategic management plan “Fusion 25”, Daikin developed a long-term strategy with a holistic approach by conducting a retrospective analysis of global changes and the company’s ideal state 10 to 20 years into the future, and then setting key strategic themes for the five-year management plan. The key strategic themes outlined in Fusion 25 are consistent and flexible enough to respond to changes in the external environment.
As a distinctive initiative of the implementation strategy, the company is actively involved in the development of regulations in all regions of the world, including developing countries, to ensure that energy-saving performance can be properly assessed, and this has led to the widespread adoption of high-efficiency inverter air conditioners. Both internally and externally, Daikin is focused on creating new intellectual property, including building and strengthening its own intellectual property portfolio, and is developing a system that provides incentives for both parties in the joint creative initiative of creating inventions.
Daikin is committed to both business growth and to solving environmental and social issues, enhancing the strengths it has developed over the years, while continuing to bring new value to a world undergoing significant changes.