ESG Committee

The management responsibility of companies in social, environmental and economic aspects is to help companies create common value with society to further improve the sustainability competitiveness of companies. Therefore, we will progressively implement social responsibilities within the organization with respect to the directions and objectives specified in the Uni-President Sustainable Development Code of Practice. In 2017, we formally established a "CSR Committee," renamed the "ESG Committee" in 2022. The Committee is chaired by the Presidents and convened by the Head of the Finance Group. There are five functional groups under the Committee, namely corporate governance, products, environment, employees and social welfare. The ESG Committee is composed of senior executives from different fields as the group convener to jointly review the implementation of sustainable development work and set the priorities and goals of sustainable development work based on the Company's operations and issues of concern to external stakeholders. The functional groups formulate plans and projects based on the committee's policies and indicators, regularly track the implementation progress, and report to the ESG Committee.

The ESG Committee is Uni-President's main division for sustainable development. Externally, the committee is accountable for examining Uni-President's corporate sustainability reports and recognizing sustainable matters of interest to stakeholders; internally, it is responsible for drafting corporate sustainability policies, key performance indicators, goals, and plans for each functional group and reviewing the implementation thereof. Aside from such periodical activities, the committee assesses progress in the five areas, namely, product R&D management, environmental management, food safety management, sustainable procurement management, and occupational safety management, on a quarterly basis through the evaluation of 17 sustainable management indicators.

The Board of Directors paid attention to ESG and risk management implementation results, and urged the management team to make adjustments when necessary. The Committee takes in the views of the Board to strengthen the items needing adjusted.