Awards and Recognition

December 2023
The Dow Jones Sustainability Index and the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index are globally recognized sustainability indexes developed jointly by S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC. Companies are selected for inclusion in these indexes by evaluating their sustainability based on economic, environmental, and social factors. The Company has been reclassified from the Retailing sector to the Financial Services sector this fiscal year. MARUI GROUP has been included in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for six consecutive years and in the Dow Jones Sustainability Asia Pacific Index for seven consecutive years.

December 2023
The D&I AWARD is a program that rates the diversity and inclusion initiatives of companies active in Japan through a proprietary diversity score rating system. In the 2023 iteration of this program, MARUI GROUP received its first D&I AWARD Grand Prize. This honor was received in recognition of the fact that MARUI GROUP is disclosing information pertaining to its various diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and contributing to social reforms by promoting these principles throughout its business. Specific examples of the initiatives disclosed include our efforts to encourage employees to voluntarily take part in internal projects and businesses pertaining to diversity, equity, and inclusion as well as undertakings aimed at generating our desired impact together with stakeholders in order to help shape a more inclusive society.

* This link leads to a page that is available in Japanese only.

December 2023
The PRIDE Index is an index for evaluating corporate initiatives pertaining to the LGBTQ community established in 2016 by work with Pride, an organization tasked with promoting and entrenching diversity management pertaining to sexual minorities. MARUI GROUP has received the highest rating of gold in the PRIDE Index for seven consecutive years. This achievement reflects the evaluation of MARUI GROUP’s initiatives, including regular LGBTQ sensitivity training, coordination with Pride House Tokyo, and the displaying of messages and images employing rainbow designs emblematic of the LGBTQ community at Marui and Modi stores while participating in and exhibiting at Tokyo Rainbow Pride 2023.

* This link leads to a page that is available in Japanese only.

October 2023
The Awards for Excellence in Corporate Disclosure is an award program arranged by the Securities Analysts Association of Japan to encourage improved disclosure of corporate information. Award recipients are chosen based on evaluations by some 500 securities analysts. In the 2023 Awards for Excellence in Corporate Disclosure, MARUI GROUP ranked high among the 23 companies in the retail category for all five evaluation criteria, which included management’s stance toward investor relations and briefings as well as ESG-related initiatives, such as efforts to explain medium- to long-term management plans and human capital investments. As a result, MARUI GROUP achieved the No. 1 overall ranking in the retail industry for the fifth time.

* This link leads to a page that is available in Japanese only.

August 2023
Science Based Targets is an initiative that was jointly established by CDP, the United Nations Global Compact, the World Resources Institute, and WWF. This initiative is tasked with contributing to the creation of a society in which the economy and the environment are in harmony by supporting companies in setting science-based greenhouse gas reduction targets and providing certification of said targets. MARUI GROUP has, in its ESG DATA BOOK for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2023, declared its intent to become carbon neutral by accomplishing its new net-zero targets. We have also launched an emissions reduction plan leading up to 2050 and laid out strategies for linking effective reduction measures and decarbonization activities to business growth. These strategies have been certified by Science Based Targets as viable for achieving net-zero emissions.

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August 2023
MARUI GROUP was selected for inclusion in Gender Equality Group 1, the highest rating in the Morningstar Japan ex-REIT Gender Diversity Tilt Index. This inclusion also means that the Company is a constituent of all six of the ESG indexes for Japanese stock used by the GPIF.

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August 2023
MARUI GROUP was included in the FTSE4Good Index Series, a series of stock indexes comprising companies meeting the ESG evaluation standards of FTSE Russell, for the seventh consecutive year.

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July 2023
The Asia-Pacific Climate Leaders 2023 ranking includes companies headquartered in the Asia Pacific region selected based on the degree of their reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Having become a member of RE100 in 2018, MARUI GROUP is moving ahead with the introduction of renewable energy in order to achieve its target of procuring 100% of the electricity used in its business activities from renewable power sources by 2030.

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July 2023
The Digital Transformation Stock Selection is a program jointly arranged by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc., for recognizing companies that are creating internal frameworks for promoting digital transformation to improve corporate value and achieving results through stakeholder engagement, management commitments, and management strategy initiatives. MARUI GROUP has been chosen for inclusion in the 2023 selection in reflection of the high evaluation of initiatives such as the issuance of Japan’s first digital social bonds to be offered by a company other than a financial institution and its provision of the OMEMIE service that allows for contracts for opening stores in Group facilities to be concluded completely online.

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May 2023
The Career Ownership Management Award is a program for recognizing corporate activities aimed at promoting “career ownership management,” which is viewed as a practical approach toward maximizing human capital, and companies generating outputs and results that would be desirable to see on a more widespread basis. MARUI GROUP received the Grand Prize in the Corporate Culture Transformation category of the 2023 Career Ownership Management Award program based on the strong impression of the Company’s efforts to develop organizations that encourage employee independence and autonomy as it seeks to foster a new corporate culture founded on the principles of “corporate culture career ownership.”

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March 2023
The Nadeshiko Brand is a joint program instituted by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc., aimed at certifying companies that exhibit excellence in empowering their female employees as Nadeshiko Brand companies. MARUI GROUP has been included in this selection for six consecutive years based on the evaluation of its efforts to accommodate the unique health challenges faced by women and to create a workplace environment that is more conducive to the contributions of female employees.

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March 2023
The Health & Productivity Stock Selection is a joint program launched by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc., that selects Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed companies that are strategically addressing employee and other health and productivity management issues based on a management perspective. In 2023, MARUI GROUP was selected for the sixth consecutive year to represent the retail sector from among the 3,169 major companies that applied.

* This link leads to a page that is available in Japanese only.

January 2023
The Sustainable Finance Awards is a program launched by the Research Institute for Environmental Finance in 2015 to promote and spread understanding regarding environmental financing, an approach toward addressing environmental issues through financing methodologies. MARUI GROUP is partnering with microfinance companies and other institutions to issue social bonds as a vehicle for building assets while contributing to society. In addition, EPOS cardholders can now access the first digital security tokens in Japan to be issued by a non-financial institution. These and other cutting-edge ESG finance initiatives won MARUI GROUP an Outstanding Performance Award in the 2023 Sustainable Finance Awards.

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December 2022
The Dow Jones Sustainability Index and the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index are globally recognized sustainability indexes developed jointly by S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC. Companies are selected for inclusion in these indexes by evaluating their sustainability based on economic, environmental, and social factors. Compiling major global companies, the 2023 iterations of these indexes comprise 322 companies chosen from among the 2,506 companies surveyed. Of these companies, 36, including three retailers, are from Japan. MARUI GROUP has been included in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for five consecutive years and in the Dow Jones Sustainability Asia Pacific Index for six consecutive years.

December 2022
The Climate A-List is a list of companies that have been recognized for taking superior action in their climate change response measures and in their strategies. MARUI GROUP has been selected for inclusion in the Climate A-List, which represents the highest evaluation offered by CDP. The Company’s inclusion in this list is a reflection of the evaluation that its climate change and information disclosure initiatives, such as its receipt of certification from Science Based Targets and its endorsement of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures, are of a high level even on the international stage.

December 2022
The PRIDE Index is an index for evaluating corporate initiatives pertaining to the LGBTQ community established in 2016 by work with Pride, an organization tasked with promoting and entrenching diversity management pertaining to sexual minorities. MARUI GROUP has received the highest rating of gold in the PRIDE Index for six consecutive years. This achievement reflects the evaluation of MARUI GROUP’s initiatives, including regular LGBTQ sensitivity training, coordination with Pride House Tokyo, and measures for creating inclusive stores that are inviting to members of sexual minorities or other marginalized communities who may face barriers in visiting other stores.

* This link leads to a page that is available in Japanese only.

October 2022
In the 2022 Awards for Excellence in Corporate Disclosure, MARUI GROUP ranked high among the 22 companies in the retail category for all five evaluation criteria, which included management’s stance toward investor relations and efforts for promoting and enhancing disclosure of ESG and other non-financial information in securities reports. As a result, MARUI GROUP achieved the No. 1 overall ranking in the retail industry for the fourth time.

* This link leads to a page that is available in Japanese only.

July 2022
MARUI GROUP was included in the FTSE Blossom Japan Index, the FTSE Blossom Japan Sector Relative Index, the MSCI Japan ESG Select Leaders Index, and the MSCI Japan Empowering Women Index, the four ESG indexes for Japanese stocks that are utilized by the Government Pension Investment Fund. In addition, MARUI GROUP was selected for inclusion in the S&P/JPX Carbon Efficient Index, a global environmental stock index. Combined with the aforementioned four indexes, this means that MARUI GROUP is included in all five of the ESG indexes utilized by the Government Pension Investment Fund.

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July 2022
MARUI GROUP was included in the FTSE4Good Index Series, a series of stock indexes compiled by FTSE Russell comprising companies meeting ESG evaluation standards, for the sixth consecutive year.

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June 2022
MARUI GROUP was included in the SOMPO Sustainability Index for the fifth consecutive year. This active index is compiled by Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Asset Management Co., Ltd., on a proprietary basis by combining its ESG and stock price evaluations of investigation firms to select approximately 300 companies. The index is used by this company's SOMPO Sustainable Investment Fund, an asset management product utilized by multiple pension funds and institutional investors. MARUI GROUP's inclusion in this index is a reflection of its initiatives for accomplishing its three impact targets of creating a future for future generations together, creating happiness for individuals, and creating platforms for co-creation, which are based on its 2050 Vision, along with the targets for the respective key performance indicators.

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April 2022
The All-Japan Executive Team Rankings is a ranking of Japanese listed companies compiled by U.S. financial industry magazine Institutional Investor, based on votes from institutional investors and securities analysts from around the world. In the 2022 ranking, MARUI GROUP was included among the Most Honored Companies with No. 1 rankings in the retailing sector in all five of the categories for which it was nominated. This included President Hiroshi Aoi ranking No. 1 in the Best CEOs category and Managing Executive Officer Hirotsugu Kato ranking No. 1 in the Best CFOs category.

April 2022
MARUI GROUP has been selected for inclusion in the FTSE Blossom Japan Sector Relative Index. This sector-neutral ESG index reflects the performance of Japanese companies excelling in terms of environmental, social, and governance initiatives within their respective sectors and has been recently adopted by the Government Pension Investment Fund.

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April 2022
The Government Pension Investment Fund requests that the institutions contracted to manage its domestic stock holdings select listed companies that issue superior corporate governance reports based on the principles of the latest version of Japan's Corporate Governance Code. A total of 44 companies were selected in 2022. MARUI GROUP was one of the companies selected and was the highest scoring company with strong ratings from six institutions.

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March 2022
The Nadeshiko Brand is a joint program instituted by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc., aimed at certifying companies that exhibit excellence in empowering their female employees as Nadeshiko Brand companies. MARUI GROUP has been included in this selection for five consecutive years based on the evaluation of its official Groupwide project team tasked with combating gender preconceptions and its efforts in encouraging female employees to pursue career advancement opportunities.

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March 2022
The Health & Productivity Stock Selection is a joint program launched by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc., that selects Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed companies that are strategically addressing employee and other health and productivity management issues based on a management perspective. In 2022, MARUI GROUP was selected for the fifth consecutive year to represent the retail sector from among the 2,869 major companies that applied.

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December 2021
The Career Select Ability Award program was established by en Foundation for HR development for the purpose of honoring next-generation human resource development companies to be recommended to people in their 20s that tackle social issues through their businesses and foster the businesspeople that will be needed in the society of the future while maintaining high profitability. In the 2021 program, MARUI GROUP was selected for this honor out of reflection of the high evaluation of factors such as its intra-Group company profession change program and its culture of encouraging voluntary participation by employees.

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October 2021
In the 2021 Awards for Excellence in Corporate Disclosure, MARUI GROUP was ranked No. 1 among the 22 companies in the retail category for all five evaluation criteria, which include fair disclosure and disclosure related to corporate governance. As a result, MARUI GROUP achieved the No. 1 overall rank in the retail industry for the third time.

* This link leads to a page that is available in Japanese only.

July 2021
MARUI GROUP was included in the FTSE Blossom Japan Index, the MSCI Japan ESG Select Leaders Index, and the MSCI Japan Empowering Women Index, three of the ESG indexes for Japanese stocks that are utilized by the Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), for the fifth consecutive year. In addition, MARUI GROUP was selected for inclusion in the S&P/JPX Carbon Efficient Index, a global environmental stock index, for the fourth consecutive year in March 2021. Combined with the aforementioned three indexes, this means that MARUI GROUP is included in all four of the ESG indexes utilized by the GPIF.

* This link leads to a page that is available in Japanese only.

July 2021
MARUI GROUP was included in the FTSE4Good Index Series, a series of stock indexes compiled by FTSE Russell comprising companies meeting ESG evaluation standards, for the fifth consecutive year.

* This link leads to a page that is available in Japanese only.

July 2021
MARUI GROUP was included in the SOMPO Sustainability Index for the fourth consecutive year. This active index is compiled by Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Asset Management Co., Ltd., on a proprietary basis by combining its ESG and stock price evaluations of investigation firms to select approximately 300 companies. The index is used by this company's SOMPO Sustainable Investment Fund, an asset management product utilized by multiple pension funds and institutional investors. MARUI GROUP's inclusion in this index was a result of its practice of forward-looking co-creation sustainability management, an approach that merges its business, environmental, social issue response, and corporate governance initiatives in an integrated manner.

* This link leads to a page that is available in Japanese only.

March 2021
MARUI GROUP received the highest rank of A in the Development Bank of Japan Inc.'s DBJ Environmentally Rated Loan Program, which scores companies on environmental management activities, selects companies exhibiting excellence, and sets financing conditions accordingly.

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March 2021
The Nadeshiko Brand is a joint program instituted by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc., aimed at certifying companies that exhibit excellence in empowering their female employees as Nadeshiko Brand companies. MARUI GROUP has been included in this selection for four consecutive years based on the evaluation of its efforts in supporting two-income households by helping both men and women succeed. These efforts include official Groupwide initiatives and the promotion of working inclusion.

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March 2021
The Health & Productivity Stock Selection is a joint program launched by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc., that selects Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed companies that are strategically addressing employee and other health and productivity management issues based on a management perspective. In 2021, MARUI GROUP was selected for the fourth consecutive year to represent the retail sector from among the 2,523 major companies that applied.

* This link leads to a page that is available in Japanese only.

February 2021
Published by S&P Global, the Sustainability Yearbook is a compilation of major global companies that have been rated highly in evaluations looking at matters such as sustainability and environmental, social, and governance initiatives. For the 2021 iteration of the Sustainability Yearbook, a total of 7,032 companies from around the world were evaluated, and 631 companies, of which 78 were Japanese companies, were selected as sustainability leaders. In this iteration, MARUI GROUP was the only retailer included among the 70 companies, six of which were Japanese companies, in the Gold Class. This year marks MARUI GROUP's fourth year of inclusion in the Sustainability Yearbook, with the Company being recognized among the Sustainability Yearbook Members in 2018, as Bronze Class in 2019, and as Silver Class in 2020.

December 2020
The Eruboshi certification system is a program through which companies engaged in superior activities based on the Act on the Promotion of Female Participation and Career Advancement in the Workplace can apply to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to receive certification. Applying companies are assigned one of three ratings for each of five categories: hiring, continuous employment, workhour and work style reforms, representation of women in management, and career course diversity. In 2020, MARUI GROUP was presented with a three-star rating based on its high scores in all categories.

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December 2020
The Climate A-List is a list of companies that have been recognized for taking superior action in their climate change responses and in their strategies. MARUI GROUP has been included in the Climate A-List, which represents the highest evaluation offered by CDP, for three consecutive years. The Company's inclusion in this list is a reflection of the evaluation that its climate change and information disclosure initiatives, such as its receipt of certification from Science Based Targets and its endorsement of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures, are of a high level even on the international stage.

* This link leads to a page that is available in Japanese only.

November 2020
The PRIDE Index is an index for evaluating corporate initiatives pertaining to the LGBT community established in 2016 by work with Pride, an organization tasked with promoting and entrenching diversity management pertaining to sexual minorities. MARUI GROUP has received the highest rating of gold in the PRIDE Index for four consecutive years. This achievement reflects the evaluation of MARUI GROUP's initiatives, including periodic LGBT sensitivity training, coordination with Pride House Tokyo, and joint planning and operation of booths with student members of Chikushi Jogakuen University's Caapa LGBTQ advocacy group at KYUSHU RAINBOW PRIDE.

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November 2020
The IR Awards is an annual program that recognizes Japan Investor Relations Association member companies engaging in exceptional investor relations (IR) activities. In 2020, MARUI GROUP was selected for the IR Grand Prix Award due to high evaluations of its ongoing leading-edge and sustainability-minded IR activities. The IR Grand Prix Award is presented to companies that have received the Best IR Award twice within the past decade and that have been judged worthy of a third award. MARUI GROUP also received the "Most Liked!" IR Award, an award established for the 2020 IR Awards to commemorate the 25th anniversary of this awards program. This new award is designed to share information on companies' proactive IR activities and on IR best practices. A total of 17 highly rated companies were presented with awards out of the 211 candidates in the 2020 IR Awards based on votes informed by the award program's theme of IR during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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November 2020
The Dow Jones Sustainability Index and the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index are globally recognized indexes developed jointly by S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC of the United States and RobecoSAM AG of Switzerland. Companies are selected for inclusion in these indexes by evaluating their sustainability based on economic, environmental, and social factors. Compiling major global companies, the 2020 iterations of these indexes comprise 323 companies chosen from among the 2,470 companies surveyed. Of these companies, 39, including three retailers, are from Japan. MARUI GROUP has been included in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for three consecutive years and in the Dow Jones Sustainability Asia Pacific Index for four consecutive years. In addition, MARUI GROUP was identified as an industry leader in the 2020 indexes with the highest score in the retailing sector.

September 2020
In the 2019 Vision Awards Annual Report Competition, one of the United States' two major report competitions, MARUI GROUP's Co-Creation Management Report 2019 (English-language edition) received a Gold award, a first for the Company, along with the highest rating of any Japanese integrated report. The 2019 competition received entries from around 1,000 companies and other organizations from more than 20 countries worldwide. Co-Creation Management Report 2019 received a Gold award with a score of 98 out of 100, with perfect scores in five of the eight judging categories for which perfect scores were received in the previous year, including "Report Cover," "Letter to Shareholders," and "Report Narrative." In addition, Co-Creation Management Report 2019 was MARUI GROUP's first report to receive a perfect score in the category of "Creativity."

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September 2020
MARUI GROUP's Co-Creation Management Report 2019 (English-language edition) was listed under the Honors of the Integrated AR & CSR: Traditional Format section of the Specialized Annual Reports category of the 2020 International ARC Awards. Held on a yearly basis by U.S. independent evaluation institution MerComm, Inc., the International ARC Awards are the world's foremost annual report competition. Judging criteria include financial information as well as the president's letter, vision, and other management information and visual aspects such as report concept and design.

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July 2020
MARUI GROUP was included, for the fourth consecutive year, in the MSCI Japan Empowering Women Index, which is one of the ESG Japan stock indexes utilized by the Government Pension Investment Fund. The MSCI Japan Empowering Women Index consists of companies that exhibit gender diversity excellence in each industry, based on the GICS^®, selected from among the top 700 companies in terms of market capitalization. This index was developed based on the idea that companies with high levels of gender diversity are resilient to the risks associated with the future labor shortfalls expected to result from the declining birthrate and aging population and are therefore highly profitable and sustainable.

July 2020
MARUI GROUP was included in the MSCI Japan ESG Select Leaders Index, one of the ESG Japan stock indexes utilized by the Government Pension Investment Fund, for the fourth consecutive year. The MSCI Japan ESG Select Leaders Index comprises Japanese companies with relatively high ESG evaluation scores within their industries selected from among the top 700 companies in terms of market capitalization. In addition, companies are selected within their industry, as defined by the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS^®), with the aim of having the index represent 50% of the market capitalization of each industry, making for a selection of companies with high ESG scores within each industry.

July 2020
MARUI GROUP was included in the FTSE Blossom Japan Index for the fourth consecutive year. One of the ESG Japan stock indexes utilized by the Government Pension Investment Fund, this index is meant to reflect the performance of Japanese companies exhibiting exceptional ESG performance, and industry is therefore not considered when selecting companies for inclusion.

July 2020
MARUI GROUP was included in the FTSE4Good Index Series, a widely recognized series of social responsible investment stock indexes comprising companies meeting ESG evaluation standards, for the fourth consecutive year.

July 2020
MARUI GROUP was included in the SOMPO Sustainability Index for the third consecutive year. This active index is compiled by Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Asset Management Co., Ltd., on a proprietary basis by combining its ESG and stock price evaluations of investigation firms to select approximately 300 companies. The index is used by this company's SOMPO Sustainable Investment Fund, an asset management product utilized by multiple pension funds and institutional investors. MARUI GROUP's inclusion in this index was a result of its practice of forward-looking co-creation sustainability management, an approach that merges its business, environmental, social issue response, and corporate governance initiatives in an integrated manner.

* This link leads to a page that is available in Japanese only.

May 2020
The All-Japan Executive Team Rankings is a ranking of Japanese listed companies compiled by U.S. financial industry magazine Institutional Investor, based on votes from institutional investors and securities analysts from around the world. In the 2020 ranking, MARUI GROUP was included among the Most Honored Companies in the retailing sector while President Hiroshi Aoi ranked No. 1 in the Best CEOs category and Managing Executive Officer Hirotsugu Kato ranked No. 2 in the Best IR Professionals category.

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April 2020
The IR Good Visual Award program recognizes single slides from the investor relations presentation materials of listed companies in Japan and presents awards for single slides that effectively communicate the corporate value of the respective company. In the 7th IR Good Visual Award, MARUI GROUP received its first such award. This award recognized the slide entitled "Earnings Structure based on Distinctive Business Model" contained in the presentation materials for its financial results briefing for the six months ended September 30, 2019. Highly evaluated aspects of this slide included how it explained MARUI GROUP's distinctive business model merging retailing and finance and its earnings structure in an easy-to-understand, visual manner.

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March 2020
In 2020, MARUI GROUP earned, for the second time, the highest rank of A in Development Bank of Japan Inc.'s DBJ Employees' Health Management Rated Loan Program, a world-first investment program that incorporates a specialized health management rated loan methodology and evaluates companies based on the consideration given to employee health and to workstyle reforms, selecting superior companies and setting financing conditions based on their rating. The acquisition of this rank is thought to be a reflection of the high evaluation of MARUI GROUP's practice of wellness management—the Company's approach toward promoting and heightening the physical and mental health and energy of employees as part of its human resource initiatives aimed at contributing to the happiness of all people, as stated in its mission and long-term vision.

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March 2020
The Nadeshiko Brand is a joint program instituted by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc., aimed at introducing listed companies designated as Nadeshiko Brand companies that exhibit excellence in empowering their female employees as appealing stocks to investors focused on medium-to-long-term improvements in corporate value and thereby encouraging investment in these companies in order to accelerate their initiatives. In 2020, MARUI GROUP was selected for inclusion in the Nadeshiko Brand for the third consecutive year out of reflection of the high evaluation of its declared intent to promote diversity as a management strategy, its promotion of Companywide workstyle reforms, and its cultivation of managers and leaders that are adept at utilizing employee diversity.

* This link leads to a page that is available in Japanese only.

March 2020
The Health & Productivity Stock Selection is a joint program launched by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc., that selects Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed companies that are strategically addressing employee and other health and productivity management issues based on a management perspective. In 2020, MARUI GROUP was selected, for the third consecutive year, to represent the retail sector from among the 2,328 major companies that entered the program.

* This link leads to a page that is available in Japanese only.

February 2020
The ESG Finance Award Japan is a program developed by Japan's Ministry of the Environment for the purpose of promoting the spread and expansion of ESG finance. This goal is accomplished by evaluating and recognizing financial institutions, organizations, and sustainability management-practicing companies that are actively engaged in ESG finance. In 2020, MARUI GROUP was the only retailer to receive a bronze award in the environmentally sustainable company category of this award program.

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February 2020
The RobecoSAM Sustainability Yearbook is published by RobecoSAM as a compilation of major global companies that display excellence in terms of sustainability and ESG initiatives. After being included among the yearbook members in 2018 and in the Bronze Class in 2019, MARUI GROUP was included in the Silver Class in 2020. This recognition reflected the high evaluation of the Company's practice of co-creation sustainability management—a forward-looking management approach that merges business, environmental, social issue response, and corporate governance initiatives in an integrated manner.

February 2020
The Environmental Communication Awards are a program designed to contribute to better disclosure by promoting the environmental management and communication initiatives of companies through awards for superior environmental information and management reports. In the 23rd iteration of this award, MARUI GROUP's Co-Creation Management Report 2019 integrated report and its VISION BOOK 2050 were highly evaluated, leading the Company to receive the climate change declaration award (Minister of the Environment Award) for the first time.

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February 2020
The Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) has commissioned the institutions to which it outsources the management of domestic securities to select excellent integrated reports, and the GPIF designates the reports that have received high evaluations from several institutions as excellent integrated reports. Five of these securities management institutions had high evaluations of MARUI GROUP's Co-Creation Management Report 2019 as an excellent integrated report. We have been selected for this honor for four consecutive years.

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February 2020
The NIKKEI Annual Report Awards is an annual contest launched by Nikkei Inc. in 1998 to promote the spread and enhancement of annual reports. In 2019, MARUI GROUP's Co-Creation Management Report 2019 integrated report received a runner-up award, following the special award obtained in 2018, based on the high scores for its senior management messages (corporate philosophy and principles) and the descriptions of its medium-to-long-term financial policies.

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January 2020
The Climate A-List is a list of companies that have been recognized for taking superior action in their climate change responses and in their strategies. MARUI GROUP has been included in the Climate A-List, which represents the highest evaluation offered by CDP, for two consecutive years. The Company's inclusion in this list was a reflection of the evaluation that its climate change and information disclosure initiatives, such as its receipt of certification from Science Based Targets and its endorsement of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures, are of a high level even on the international stage.

December 2019
The Forbes JAPAN WOMEN AWARD is designed to award companies that create environments conducive to the efforts of ambitious female employees as well as women who are proactive in pursuing their own paths. MARUI GROUP was recognized in this award program for the first time in 2019 out of reflection of the evaluation of its high rate of male employees receiving childcare leave, its significant ratio of female employees in management positions, its low levels of overtime, and its proactive, organization-wide efforts to empower female employees.

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November 2019
The PRIDE INDEX is an index for evaluating corporate initiatives pertaining to the LGBT community established in 2016 by work with Pride, an organization tasked with promoting and entrenching diversity management pertaining to sexual minorities. MARUI GROUP has received the highest rating of gold in the PRIDE INDEX for three consecutive years. This feat reflects the evaluation of MARUI GROUP's periodic LGBT sensitivity training, its coordination with Pride House Tokyo, and other initiatives.

* This link leads to a page that is available in Japanese only.

November 2019
The Green Purchasing Award is a program launched in 1998 with the aim of recognizing organizations that contribute to the spread and proliferation of green purchasing. In the 20th iteration of this award program, a special renewable energy proliferation category was established with the goal of recognizing superior renewable energy proliferation initiatives by electricity retailers and purchasers. MARUI GROUP received an award of excellence in the special renewable energy proliferation category out of reflection of its contributions to the expansion of green purchasing markets through initiatives such as the introduction of renewable energy and the issuance of the first green bonds to be offered by a Japanese retailer.

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November 2019
The Best IR Award is an annual program that recognizes Japan Investor Relations Association member companies engaging in exceptional IR activities. In 2019, MARUI GROUP was selected for the second time due to high evaluations of its ongoing, leading-edge, and sustainability-minded IR activities.

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November 2019
The WICI Japan Award for Excellence in Integrated Reporting is a program launched by WICI Japan in 2013 with the aim of promoting the spread of integrated reporting. MARUI GROUP's Co-Creation Management Report 2019 received the Best Integrated Reporting Grand Prize in the 2019 iteration of this program, following the Integrated Reporting Award obtained in 2018.

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October 2019
The Dow Jones Sustainability World Index is a globally recognized index developed jointly by S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC of the United States and RobecoSAM AG of Switzerland. This index selects companies for inclusion by evaluating their sustainability based on economic, environmental, and social factors. Compiling major global companies, the 2019 iteration of this index comprises 318 companies chosen from among the 2,526 companies surveyed. Of these companies, 33 are from Japan, and MARUI GROUP, included in this index for the second consecutive year, is the only Japanese retailing company.

October 2019
The Dow Jones Sustainability Asia Pacific Index is a globally recognized index developed jointly by S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC of the United States and RobecoSAM AG of Switzerland. This index selects companies for inclusion by evaluating their sustainability based on economic, environmental, and social factors. A total of 148 companies from the Asia Pacific region, 76 of which are Japanese companies, are included in the 2019 iteration of this index from among the 612 companies surveyed. MARUI GROUP has been selected for inclusion in this index for three consecutive years.

August 2019
MARUI GROUP's VISION BOOK 2050 (English-language edition) won a Silver award in the Sustainability Report: Asia, Mid-East & Pacific section of the Specialized A.R. category of the 2019 International ARC Awards. Held on a yearly basis by U.S. independent evaluation institution MerComm, Inc., the International ARC Awards are the world's foremost annual report competition. Judging criteria include financial information as well as the president's letter, vision, and other management information and visual aspects such as report concept and design.

July 2019
MARUI GROUP's VISION BOOK 2050 (English-language edition) won a Gold award and four other awards in the 2018 Vision Awards Annual Report Competition, one of the United States' two major report competitions. The 2018 competition received entries from around 1,000 companies and other organizations from more than 20 countries worldwide. VISION BOOK 2050 ranked in the top 100 worldwide with a score of 98 out of 100, with perfect scores received for six of the eight judging categories including "Letter to Shareholders," "Report Financials," "Creativity," and "Message Clarity."

July 2019
In the 2018 Vision Awards Annual Report Competition, one of the United States' two major report competitions, MARUI GROUP's Co-Creation Management Report 2018 (English-language edition) received a Silver award and three other awards. The 2018 competition received entries from around 1,000 companies and other organizations from more than 20 countries worldwide. Co-Creation Management Report 2018 received a Silver award with a score of 97 out of 100, with perfect scores in four of the eight judging categories, matching the previous year's performance, including "Report Cover," "Letter to Shareholders," and "Report Narrative," while also receiving a perfect score for the new category "Message Clarity," for a total of five perfect scores.

July 2019
MARUI GROUP was included in the FTSE4Good Index Series, a widely recognized series of social responsible investment stock indexes comprising companies meeting ESG evaluation standards, for the third consecutive year.

July 2019
MARUI GROUP was included in the FTSE Blossom Japan Index for the third consecutive year. One of the ESG Japan stock indexes utilized by the Government Pension Investment Fund, this index is meant to reflect the performance of Japanese companies exhibiting exceptional ESG performance, and industry is therefore not considered when selecting companies for inclusion.

July 2019
MARUI GROUP was included in the MSCI Japan ESG Select Leaders Index, one of the ESG Japan stock indexes utilized by the Government Pension Investment Fund, for the third consecutive year. The MSCI Japan ESG Select Leaders Index comprises Japanese companies with superior ESG evaluation scores selected from among the top 500 companies in terms of market capitalization. In addition, companies are selected within their industry, as defined by the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS^®), with the aim of having the index represent 50% of the market capitalization of each industry. This approach mitigates the overconcentration on specific industries that occurs when selecting companies purely based on ESG evaluation scores.

July 2019
MARUI GROUP was included, for the third consecutive year, in the MSCI Japan Empowering Women Index, which is one of the ESG Japan stock indexes utilized by the Government Pension Investment Fund. The MSCI Japan Empowering Women Index consists of companies that exhibit gender diversity excellence in each industry, based on the GICS^®, selected from among the top 500 companies in terms of market capitalization. This index was developed based on the idea that companies with high levels of gender diversity are resilient to the risks associated with the future labor shortfalls expected to result from the declining birthrate and aging population and are therefore highly profitable and sustainable.

June 2019
MARUI GROUP was included in the SNAM Sustainability Index for the second consecutive year. This active index is compiled by Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Asset Management Co., Ltd., on a proprietary basis by combining its ESG and stock price evaluations to select approximately 300 companies. The index is used by this company's SNAM Sustainable Investment Fund, an asset management product utilized by multiple pension funds and institutional investors. MARUI GROUP's inclusion in this index was a result of its practice of forward-looking co-creation sustainability management, an approach that merges its business, environmental, social issue response, and corporate governance initiatives in an integrated manner.

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June 2019
The Nikkei Corporate Environmental Management Survey has been conducted once a year since 1997 to evaluate companies that are effectively addressing environmental issues while managing their business. MARUI GROUP ranked first in the retail and restaurants category for the second consecutive year in the 2019 survey with perfect scores in areas related to environment management systems, pollution prevention and biodiversity initiatives, and global warming countermeasures.

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May 2019
The Companies Supporting Childrearing by Two-Income Households Grand Prix is a program sponsored by Nikkei DUAL, a website that provides information for parents looking to balance work with childrearing in two-income households. Awards are presented to companies that exhibit excellence with regard to factors including the implementation of measures for supporting employees raising children, regardless of their gender, and for helping them develop their career and for promoting the equal involvement of men and women in both work and childrearing. MARUI GROUP received the grand prize in this program for the first time in reflection of the high evaluations of the large number of male employees acquiring three or more simultaneous days of childcare leave, its low average amount of monthly overtime, and its provision of opportunities for career education regardless of employees' gender, age, or other traits.

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April 2019
The Competitive IT Strategy Company Stock Selection is compiled and released by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Tokyo Stock Exchange. This selection compiles companies that are aggressively using IT to reform management, improve profitability, or boost productivity from the perspectives of medium-to-long-term increases in corporate value and enhanced competitiveness. MARUI GROUP was included in this selection for the first time out of recognition for various initiatives. These initiatives include its efforts to contribute to the resolution of social issues based on the same principles that underpin the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and its creation of cross-Group organizational structures for promoting digitization. Recognition was also received for MARUI GROUP's use of IT in work style reforms and in the promotion of financial inclusion providing financial services for everyone.

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March 2019
In the fiscal year ending March 31, 2019, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry unveiled the Diversity Management 100 Prime program through which it recognizes companies that have been previously selected in the New Diversity Management Selection 100 and that have been advancing ongoing, companywide initiatives under the Diversity 2.0 program. MARUI GROUP has positioned the promotion of diversity as part of its management strategies aimed at accomplishing its corporate philosophy. Accordingly, we are shaping our corporate culture and reforming our frameworks to better address diversifying values and needs. The Company's receipt of this honor is thought to reflect the strong evaluation of these initiatives and how they have contributed to the creation of new services and the improvement of corporate value.

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March 2019
The Nadeshiko Brand is a joint program instituted by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc., aimed at introducing listed companies that exhibit excellence in empowering their female employees as appealing stocks to investors focused on medium-to-long-term improvements in corporate value and thereby encouraging investment in these companies in order to accelerate their initiatives. Promoting diversity has been defined as one of the strategies of MARUI GROUP's medium-term management plan, and we are therefore pursuing diversity with regard to individual talents, gender, and age. In addition, our entry into the securities business in August 2018 resulted in the appointment of the Group's first female CEO. Recognition of these factors led to MARUI GROUP being chosen for inclusion in the Nadeshiko Brand for the second consecutive year.

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March 2019
The Japan Green Bond Awards program was established in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2019, with the goals of accelerating the trend toward issuance of and investment in green bonds and communicating innovative green bond initiatives to society. MARUI GROUP was presented with the Minister of the Environment Award in the Japan Green Innovation Category of this program, a category designed to recognize companies that have contributed to the development of the domestic green bond market with innovative ideas. This award was a reflection of the high evaluation of MARUI GROUP's issuance of Japan's first green bonds for procuring renewable energy as an exemplary and innovative initiative.

March 2019
The RobecoSAM Sustainability Yearbook is published by RobecoSAM as a compilation of companies that display excellence in terms of economic, environmental, and social initiatives and information disclosure. Of the 12 retail sector companies selected as 2019 sustainability leaders, MARUI GROUP was the only Japanese company. Furthermore, the Company was included in the Bronze Class, and it was also recognized as an Industry Mover, indicating that it was the retail sector company whose score had improved the most from the previous fiscal year.

February 2019
The Health & Productivity Stock Selection is a joint program launched by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc., in 2015 that selects, in principle, one Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed company from each industry that is strategically addressing employee and other health and productivity management issues based on a management perspective. In 2019, MARUI GROUP was selected from among retail sector companies for the second consecutive year.

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February 2019
The Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) has commissioned the 17 institutions to which it outsources the management of domestic securities to select excellent integrated reports. Seven of the 17 domestic securities management institutions had high evaluations of MARUI GROUP's Co-Creation Management Report 2018 as an excellent integrated report. We have been selected for this honor for three consecutive years.

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February 2019
The NIKKEI Annual Report Awards is an annual contest launched by Nikkei Inc. in 1998 to promote the spread and enhancement of annual reports. In 2018, MARUI GROUP's Co-Creation Management Report 2018 integrated report received a special award, following the award for outstanding performance obtained in 2017, based on the high scores for its senior management messages and promotion of financial sustainability.

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January 2019
MARUI GROUP became the first Japanese retailing company to be included in the Climate A-List, which represents the highest evaluation offered by CDP. The Company's inclusion in this list was a reflection of the evaluation that its climate change and information disclosure initiatives, such as its receipt of certification from Science Based Targets and its endorsement of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures, are of a high level even on the international stage.

January 2019
The Tohoku Carbon Offset Grand Prix is a program for recognizing superior carbon offset initiatives in the Tohoku region that should serve as model examples for other initiatives and the organizations that implement these initiatives. MARUI GROUP conducts carbon offset initiatives in the Tohoku region pertaining to its private brand products and, having identified links between environmental awareness and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, proposes ecologically sound lifestyles that are in harmony with nature and the environment through its website and stores. These initiatives earned the Company the SDGs Carbon Offset Award in this program.

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January 2019
The Sustainable Finance Awards is an award program launched in 2015 by the Research Institute for Environmental Finance, an organization that seeks to promote and spread awareness pertaining to environmental finance, which entails addressing environmental issues through finance. The receipt of this award by MARUI GROUP is a reflection of the evaluation of its joining RE100, its issuance of the first green bonds in Japan to be used to purchase electricity generated from renewable power sources, and other Groupwide efforts to introduce renewable energy.

December 2018
The Forbes JAPAN WOMEN AWARD was launched in 2016 to award companies that create environments conducive to the efforts of ambitious female employees as well as women who are proactive in pursuing their own paths. In 2018, Asumi Kantake, representative director and CEO of Group company tsumiki Securities Co., Ltd., was presented with an innovator award in the individual category, which is aimed at women who are active on the front lines of fields where women are lacking.

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November 2018
The Awards for Companies Promoting Equality and Work-Life Balance is a program in which the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare presents awards to companies that take positive action to empower female employees to exercise their talents, that support employees in balancing their work with child-rearing or long-term care for families, and that serve as model examples for other companies. MARUI GROUP received the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare's Award for Excellence in this program for the first time in reflection of its expansion of the scope of duties performed by female employees and its increase in the number of female managers. These improvements were achieved by tracking women's empowerment indexes, which were established for the purpose of measuring the progress in initiatives for empowering female employees.

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November 2018
The WICI Japan Award for Excellence in Integrated Reporting is a program launched by WICI Japan in 2013 with the aim of promoting the spread of integrated reporting. MARUI GROUP was selected for receipt of this award for the first time in 2018 for its Co-Creation Management Report 2018, which adopted a multifaceted approach toward describing how MARUI GROUP's core value—the co-creation of creditability—is connected to the Company's business, both today and tomorrow.

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October 2018
MARUI GROUP was awarded with the highest rating of gold in the PRIDE INDEX for the second consecutive year out of recognition of its expansion of the scope of application of systems for spouses of employees to include common-law marriage and same-sex partners and its establishment of an external consultation venue catering to concerns related to LGBT and other issues.

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October 2018
From among the 22 retail sector companies evaluated in the 2018 Awards for Excellence in Corporate Disclosure, MARUI GROUP was ranked No. 1 in terms of corporate governance, fair disclosure, and stance of management toward investor relations. This was the second time the Company has been ranked No. 1 in this award program, with the first time being in 2016.

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October 2018
MARUI GROUP was selected for inclusion in the S&P/JPX Carbon Efficient Index for the first time. This index comprises companies included in the Tokyo Stock Price Index (TOPIX) and uses a selection process that entails overweighting or underweighting companies in reflection of their disclosure of environmental information and their carbon efficiency (carbon emissions per unit of revenue). By employing an evaluation scheme that increases the weight of companies that practice satisfactory disclosure of environmental information and that have high carbon efficiency, this index is designed to promote more robust environmental initiatives and disclosure throughout the market.

September 2018
The Dow Jones Sustainability World Index is a globally recognized index developed jointly by S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC, of the United States and RobecoSAM AG of Switzerland. This index selects companies for inclusion by evaluating their sustainability based on economic, environmental, and social factors. Compiling major global companies, the 2018 iteration of this index comprises 317 companies chosen from among the 2,521 companies surveyed. Of these companies, 34 are from Japan, and MARUI GROUP is the only Japanese retailing company included.

September 2018
The Dow Jones Sustainability Asia Pacific Index is a globally recognized index developed jointly by S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC, of the United States and RobecoSAM AG of Switzerland. This index selects companies for inclusion by evaluating their sustainability based on economic, environmental, and social factors. A total of 150 companies from the Asia Pacific region, 75 of which are Japanese companies, are included in the 2018 iteration of this index from among the 612 companies surveyed. MARUI GROUP has been selected for inclusion in this index for two consecutive years.

August 2018
MARUI GROUP won a Bronze award in the Integrated AR & CSR section of the Specialized A.R. category of the 2018 International ARC Awards. The International ARC Awards are a yearly annual report competition held by U.S. independent evaluation institution MerComm, Inc. Uninfluenced by advertisers or sponsors, reports are submitted to impartial evaluations by judges selected from a wide range of fields. Judging criteria include financial information as well as the president's letter, vision, and other management information and visual aspects such as report concept and design.

August 2018
MARUI GROUP was selected for inclusion in the JPX-Nikkei Index 400 for the first time. Compiled and disclosed by Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc., and Nikkei Inc., this index is composed of companies with high appeal for investors that meet requirements of global investment standards, such as efficient use of capital and investor-focused management perspectives.

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July 2018
MARUI GROUP's Co-Creation Sustainability Report 2017 (English-language edition) won a Gold award and its Co-Creation Management Report 2017 (English-language edition) won a Silver award in the 2017 Vision Awards Annual Report Competition, one of the United States' two major report competitions. Co-Creation Sustainability Report 2017 received a Gold award with a score of 98 out of 100, with perfect scores received for six of the eight judging categories including "Letter to Shareholders," "Report Financials," "Creativity," and "Message Clarity." Co-Creation Management Report 2017 received a Silver award with a score of 97 out of 100, with perfect scores received for five of the eight judging categories including "Report Cover," "Letter to Shareholders," "Report Narrative," and "Information Accessibility."

July 2018
The FTSE4Good Index Series is a series of well-known socially responsible investment indexes that comprise companies meeting evaluation standards pertaining to ESG factors. MARUI GROUP has been included in the FTSE4Good Index Series for two consecutive years. As of June 30, 2018, a total of 925 companies from around the world were included in these indexes, of which 152 were Japanese companies.

July 2018
The FTSE Blossom Japan Index is an ESG index of Japanese companies utilized by the Government Pension Investment Fund. To reflect companies exhibiting exceptional performance with regard to ESG factors, industry is not considered when selecting companies for inclusion. MARUI GROUP has been selected for inclusion for two consecutive years.

July 2018
The MSCI Japan ESG Select Leaders Index is an index for Japanese stocks based on ESG criteria. This index is utilized by the Government Pension Investment Fund. It comprises companies with relatively high MSCI ESG Ratings in each industry selected from among the top 500 companies in terms of market capitalization. This is MARUI GROUP's second consecutive year of inclusion in this index.

July 2018
The MSCI Japan Empowering Women Index is an ESG index for Japanese stocks consisting of companies that exhibit gender diversity excellence in each industry, selected from among the top 500 companies in terms of market capitalization. This index advocates the idea that companies with high levels of gender diversity are resilient to the risks associated with the future labor shortfalls expected to result from the declining birthrate and aging population and are therefore highly profitable and sustainable. MARUI GROUP has been selected for inclusion in this index for two consecutive years.

June 2018
MARUI GROUP was selected for inclusion in the Snam Sustainability Index for the first time. This index is an ESG-minded product launched by Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Asset Management Co., Ltd., in August 2012. This index is utilized by several pension funds and institutional investors.

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May 2018
The All-Japan Executive Team Rankings are annual rankings of listed Japanese companies sponsored by U.S. financial industry magazine Institutional Investor and based on votes from institutional investors and securities analysts worldwide. For the 2018 iteration, votes were submitted by 1,002 individuals from 410 institutions around the world. In this iteration, MARUI GROUP was ranked No. 1 among retailing sector companies in the Best Analyst Days category as well as in the newly established ESG/SRI Metrics and Corporate Governance categories.

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March 2018
The Science Based Targets initiative was jointly established by CDP, the United Nations Global Compact, the World Resources Institute, and the World Wildlife Fund. This initiative is tasked with encouraging companies to set science-based greenhouse gas reduction targets with the aim of keeping the average increase in global temperature from pre-industrial times below 2℃.

February 2018
The Health & Productivity Stock Selection is a joint program launched by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc., in 2015 that selects, in principle, one Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed company from each industry that is strategically addressing employee and other health and productivity management issues based on a management perspective. In 2018, MARUI GROUP was rated the highest among retail sector companies for its management philosophy and policies, its implementation of systems and measures, and its evaluation and improvement frameworks.

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February 2018
The Awards for Enterprises and Workplaces with Pleasant Working Environments and High Productivity are meant to recognize companies implementing superior initiatives for improving labor productivity and managing labor (building pleasant working environments) that can serve as model examples for other companies. In 2018, MARUI GROUP was presented with an award for outstanding performance in recognition of its efforts to reduce overtime through various work systems and to build a pleasant working environment.

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February 2018
The RobecoSAM Sustainability Yearbook is published by RobecoSAM AG as a compilation of companies displaying excellence in terms of economic, environmental, and social initiatives and information disclosure. In RobecoSAM Sustainability Yearbook 2018, MARUI GROUP was the only Japanese company from among the 13 retail sector companies identified as sustainability leaders in 2018 to be selected as a yearbook member.

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February 2018
The NIKKEI Annual Report Awards are a contest that has been held by Nikkei Inc. each year since 1998 with the aim of promoting the spread of and further improvements to annual reports. In NIKKEI Annual Report Awards 2017, MARUI GROUP's Co-Creation Management Report 2017 integrated report received an award for outstanding performance based on the high scores for its senior management messages, descriptions of measures and plans for improving medium-to-long-term corporate value, and overall quality.

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January 2018
The Nikkei Corporate Environmental Management Survey is a survey designed to evaluate companies effectively addressing environmental issues in their management that has been instituted once a year since 1997. MARUI GROUP ranked first in the retail and restaurants category of the most recent survey with perfect scores in areas related to environment management systems, pollution prevention and biodiversity initiatives, and global warming countermeasures.

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January 2018
MARUI GROUP was selected for inclusion in the Morningstar Socially Responsible Investment Index for two consecutive years out of recognition of its commitment to contributing to the creation of a flourishing and inclusive society offering happiness to all through co-creation activities with all of its stakeholders. This socially responsible investment index compiles and indexes the stock price of approximately 150 companies from among the roughly 4,000 listed companies in Japan that surveys have identified as displaying a proactive stance with regard to corporate governance, the environment, social concerns, and human resource-related matters.

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December 2017
MARUI GROUP has received a Special Encouragement Award in this program for two consecutive years, in 2016 and 2017, out of recognition of the high evaluation of its efforts to promote diversity within the Company and understanding in this regard and to increase the ratio of applicable male employees taking childcare leave and to reduce overtime. This award also recognizes MARUI GROUP's efforts to support the work-life balance of employees raising children and implement workstyle reforms among its management strategies.

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December 2017
MARUI GROUP was presented with the Head Judge's Award out of recognition of its renovation of NOCTY PLAZA's Rooftop Square and its efforts to build bonds with communities through rooftop greenery areas, both of which were conducted through co-creation between NOCTY PLAZA and Marui Family Mizonokuchi.

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November 2017
MARUI GROUP received the grand prize in the GP Environmental Award in 2015 and 2016 and a runner-up prize in 2017. In this program, which is operated by the Japan Federation of Printing Industries, the Company was recognized for its proactive utilization of the "Green Printing" certification scheme and its environmental preservation initiatives.

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November 2017
MARUI GROUP was awarded a score of A- for the second consecutive year in CDP Climate Change Report 2017, Japan edition, out of recognition for its efforts to control emissions of CO₂ and other greenhouse gases and manage risks related to climate change.

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November 2017
Hakata Marui received the grand prize in the Kindness from All category of the Universal City Fukuoka Award 2017 out of recognition for its store development initiatives implemented in terms of services and facilities. These initiatives included internal training on universal design and LGBT manners for improving customer service as well as the establishment of restrooms for everyone on all floors and the development of charging spaces for electric wheelchairs.

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November 2017
MARUI GROUP received a Best IR Award in the 2017 IR Award program of the Japan Investor Relations Association, following the IR Special Award received in the 2016 program, based on the high evaluation of the Company's efforts to step up its investor relations activities, particularly those conducted by members of senior management; the stance to co-creating corporate value with investors expressed in these activities; and its explanatory forums pertaining to ESG matters and integrated reports.

October 2017
MARUI GROUP was awarded with a silver rating in the PRIDE INDEX, which was established by work with Pride, in 2016 and then the highest rating of gold in 2017 out of recognition of its inclusion of a clear declaration that individuals are not to suffer discrimination on the basis of sexual identity or sexual orientation among the items prohibiting discriminatory treatment in its labor agreements and its establishment of an internal consultation venue for LGBT issues, among other initiatives.

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October 2017
MARUI GROUP received the highest rank of A in the Development Bank of Japan Inc.'s DBJ Environmentally Rated Loan Program, which scores companies on environmental management activities, selects companies exhibiting excellence, and sets financing conditions accordingly. The Company was also presented with a special award reserved for companies with particularly high ratings that can serve as model examples.

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September 2017
MARUI GROUP was selected for an award in the Impact category of Universal Manners Award 2017, which is sponsored by the Japan Universal Manners Association to recognize companies and organizations that are working to create more comfortable environments for a diverse range of people including senior citizens and differently abled individuals. This award was received based on the high evaluation of MARUI GROUP's proactive adoption of universal design concepts, which has made the Company a example referenced by other commercial facilities; its participation in TOKYO RAINBOW PRIDE and its clear stance as an understanding ally of the LGBT community; and its other wide-ranging communication initiatives.

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September 2017
MARUI GROUP was, for the first time, chosen to be included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Asia Pacific Index, an index comprised of companies in the Asia Pacific region. The Dow Jones Sustainability Asia Pacific Index is part of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index series, a major global socially responsible investment index series jointly established in 1999 by RobecoSAM AG of Switzerland and S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC of the United States. In 2017, Dow Jones Sustainability Asia Pacific Index included 152 companies, 72 of which were Japanese.

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August 2017
The MerComm Annual Report Competition is a yearly competition for annual reports held by U.S. independent evaluation firm MerComm, Inc. This competition receives several applications from around the world from companies seeking impartial judgment and evaluation of their annual reports from various perspectives, including financial and management information, concept, and design, without having to worry about influences from advertisers or sponsors. In 2017, 1,987 reports from 33 countries were judged, and MARUI GROUP's Co-Creation Sustainability Report 2016 (English-language version) was able to rise above the competition to receive a Silver award.

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July 2017
MARUI GROUP was chosen for inclusion, for the first time, in the FTSE4Good Index Series social responsible investment index. FTSE Russell selects companies for inclusion that meet evaluation standards based on ESG criteria. As of June 30, 2017, 883 companies (148 of which are Japanese companies) had been selected for inclusion in this index.

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July 2017
MARUI GROUP was included in the FTSE Blossom Japan Index, which is an index for Japanese stocks based on ESG criteria and compiled by Government Pension Investment Fund. Meant to reflect the performance of Japanese companies that meet various ESG-related requirements, this index is compiled without consideration for the industries of included companies.

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July 2017
MARUI GROUP was chosen as one of the companies to be included in the MSCI Japan ESG Select Leaders Index, an index for Japanese stocks based on ESG criteria and compiled by Government Pension Investment Fund. This index is comprised of companies with relatively high MSCI ESG Ratings in each industry selected from among the top 500 companies in terms of market capitalization after excluding those companies with the lowest MSCI ESG Rating of CCC and those that have been involved in serious scandals.

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July 2017
MARUI GROUP has been included in the MSCI Japan Empowering Women Index. This index of Japanese stocks is compiled by Government Pension Investment Fund and based on ESG criteria for the purpose of supporting decisions by institutional investors interested in investing in companies that exhibit excellence on the front of gender diversity. This index is comprised of companies exhibiting such excellence in their industry, based on the Global Industry Classification Standard, that have been selected from among the top 500 companies in terms of market capitalization.

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May 2017
MARUI GROUP was ranked No. 3 among retail sector companies in the Honored Companies category of the 2017 All-Japan Executive Team Rankings. Also in the Best IR Companies category, the Company was ranked No. 1 in the Combined and Buy Side rankings and No. 2 in the Sell Side ranking. Furthermore, MARUI GROUP President Hiroshi Aoi came in No. 3 in the Buy Side ranking under the Best CEO category. MARUI GROUP also placed No. 2 in the Combined ranking under the Best Analyst Days category. In this manner, the Company claimed high positions in all categories of this ranking.

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February 2017
The Environmental Communication Awards are a program for recognizing superior environmental reports and environment reporting activities by companies that engage in proactive environmental communication. As tools for providing a deep level of understanding with regard to its co-creation management activities, MARUI GROUP began issuing integrated co-creation management reports in 2015 and then re-branded its CSR reports as co-creation sustainability reports in 2016. These efforts were recognized when MARUI GROUP received an award for excellence as part of the 20th Environmental Communication Awards.

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January 2017
The Morningstar Socially Responsible Investment Index is a socially responsible investment index that compiles and indexes the stock price of approximately 150 companies from among the roughly 4,000 listed companies in Japan that display excellence in terms of social contributions based on evaluations of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns and human resource-related matters. MARUI GROUP has set forth its new goal of achieving sustainability in light of social trends and a standpoint emphasizing ESG concerns and is working to transform its main business into a socially contributing undertaking with eyes to the future. These efforts resulted in the Company's inclusion in this index.

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December 2016
The Carbon Offset Awards were established with the aim of furthering the development of a low-carbon society by promoting proper understanding of carbon offset and encouraging utilization in business activities to spread usage. The acknowledgment of the Rakuchin Kirei series of shoes as eco-friendly products and the high evaluation of related carbon offset initiatives, which began in 2014, made MARUI GROUP the first apparel company to be recognized by this award program.

November 2016
MARUI GROUP aims to be a leader in developing products, services, and stores that bring joy to all customers, regardless of their age, gender, or physical characteristics. As one facet of efforts to this end, we promote understanding within the Company by conducting LGBT manner training and inviting minority representatives to give lectures. In addition, we have continually participated in events held by TOKYO RAINBOW PRIDE. The high evaluation of these efforts led to the Company receiving a silver rating in the PRIDE INDEX in work with Pride 2016.

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November 2016
The Japan Investor Relations Association presented MARUI GROUP with the Best IR Award in its 2016 IR Award. Reasons for our receipt of this award, a first time achievement, included the high evaluation of the recent redoubling of our investor relations (IR) activities and the enhancement of our activities, as well as the fact that we listen to investor feedback and make our capital measures easier to understand by identifying return on equity and return on invested capital as key performance indicators. Other highly evaluated initiatives include the construction of more easily understood briefings materials and the holding of detailed business briefings and ESG-related briefings as well as activities emphasizing uniqueness such as MARUI IR DAY and co-creation management reports.

October 2016
The Japan Federation of Printing Industries selects companies for the GP Environmental Award that have demonstrated a passionate approach toward reducing their environmental impact and displayed the GP mark on the largest number of publications. MARUI GROUP received this award in both 2015 and 2016 for its understanding and active use of the GP certification system.

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October 2016
MARUI GROUP received a Special Judges Award in the 5th Contest for Corporate Activities on Biodiversity in recognition of the high evaluation of various initiatives for creating biodiversity-rich spaces in urban areas and advancing co-creation activities with community members conducted at Nakano Marui's Four Seasons and Waterside Gardens.

October 2016
In the 2016 Awards for Excellence in Corporate Disclosure, MARUI GROUP was ranked No. 1 among the 19 companies in the retail category for three of the five evaluation criteria: disclosure at briefings, fair disclosure, and disclosure related to corporate governance. As a result, MARUI GROUP achieved the No. 1 overall rank in the retail industry for the first time ever.

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June 2016
MARUI GROUP placed No. 2 in the Sell Side ranking among retail sector companies in the Best IR Companies category of the 2016 All-Japan Executive Team Rankings. In addition, MARUI GROUP President Hiroshi Aoi came in No. 1 in the Sell Side ranking under the Best CEO category and No. 2 in the Combined ranking.

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January 2015
MARUI GROUP received the Nakano Greenery Contribution Award out of consideration of the Company's stance toward preserving the environment and contributing to communities, its efforts to create so-called urban oases and make these available to the public, and its promotion of biodiversity through the development of waterside areas.

September 2014
The Organization for Landscape and Urban Green Infrastructure officially certified Q-COURT as an "Urban Oasis" in 2014 after determining that it met the requirements in the three categories of public accessibility, safety, and environmental consideration through document and on-site inspections.

October 2013
Amid the extreme heat of early August, we utilize specialized "comfort thermometers" that can easily measure the perceived temperature to perform measurements in the areas of Nakano Marui's Four Seasons and Waterside Gardens enclosed in greenery and in urban areas surrounded by asphalt. Based in part on these results, it was determined that the gardens met the requirements in the three judgment categories through document and on-site inspections, leading to their official certification as "Urban Oases."

August 2008
MARUI KIT CENTER CO., LTD., received the First Prize in the FY2008 Awards for Superior Examples of Workplace Improvements for Employing Differently Abled Individuals. The honor was an acknowledgment of the company's efforts to develop an environment in which differently abled individuals can continue to work while feeling motivated and exercising independence by providing appropriate work stages. These efforts were undertaken after broadening MARUI KIT CENTER's management concept from the prior goal of promoting employment of differently abled individuals and making such employment an entrenched part of its operations to the new goal of facilitating long-term employment and accommodating aging.