More informative each year, the JGC Report serves a key role in providing information to investors regarding disclosure for long-term investment decisions. The content of JGC Report 2023 reflects the broad range of preliminary feedback received from shareholders and investors. Additionally, given that the previous period was the third year of the medium-term business plan, interest from the stock market centered around “what progress had been made so far, and whether the targets could be achieved in the remaining three years until 2025.” Accordingly, for each of the three key strategies, the Group outlined the progress of specific initiatives, the business environment, and future policies, showing the path toward achieving the targets set in the medium-term business plan. Moreover, the Group continued to focus on expanding the disclosure of non-financial information. The Group has systematically organized the overall structure of the human resource strategy including specific initiatives aimed at strengthening and enhancing human capital, which is essential for sustainable growth of the Group.

Enhanced information disclosure for shareholders and investors is also sought online, through a more informative corporate website.
We are committed to keeping shareholders, investors, and an array of other stakeholders informed through developing or updating webpages related to functional materials manufacturing and sustainability, among other topics.

The Group holds periodic executive—employee roundtable discussions for participants to speak freely and share in our vision. As a part of this, the JGC Council^*1 was established to provide a relaxed forum at which top management and employees can discuss the future of the Group, with the understanding that the development of the Company and the improvement of employees’ livelihoods are two sides of the same coin, and as such inseparable. Since its establishment in 1972, over 100 roundtable discussions have been held between the top management and employees of each
company. Furthermore, after transitioning to a holding company structure, roundtable discussions^*2 have been introduced between the four companies. In one such discussion held in July 2024, the Group’s medium- to long-term management strategy was discussed, and the expectations for employees were clarified.
In addition, visits by top management to construction sites are carried out continuously. Every year, the top management and executives from operating companies visit construction sites within Japan and overseas with the aim of fostering a culture of safety, and to engage in dialogue with employees at these sites.
The Group also uses various media such as Company newsletters and Company-wide bulletin boards to promote initiatives to better communicate Company management policies and issues to employees, and are implementing communication activities to enhance Group employees’ sense of belonging.

Over the past several decades, the JGC Group has conducted various training programs for engineers and students specializing in fields such as chemical engineering from resource-producing countries for the purpose of strengthening relationships with such countries. Many of the participants in these programs have contributed to resource development and industrial development in their own countries after returning home, which has also led to increased business for the company with these countries.

The JGC Group actively promotes domestic procurement where plants are built, and when sophisticated equipment is ordered, our engineers may go on-site to provide technical assistance tailored to local vendors' expertise and facilities. Viewing these close ties as an asset, we take the initiative in providing technical assistance to vendors.

• Promoting procurement in emerging markets

At overseas construction sites, the JGC Group believes that collaboration with the local community is essential for the smooth execution of projects. The Group is currently conducting a construction project in Basra, Iraq. Academic decline in postwar Iraq has been significant, and educational investment is insufficient, particularly in Basra Province.
Unemployment also remains high among young people, with jobs scarce even for university graduates. Against this backdrop, the Group has been providing education in programming along with science education classes for public elementary schools in Basra every year since 2022, with the aim of making long-term contributions, such as providing educational experiences for children and creating youth employment opportunities. By fiscal 2023, approximately 16,000 children had participated in programming classes, and approximately 7,000 in science experiment classes.

Each year at its Kitakyushu facility, JGC C&C has held workshops with chemistry experiments for local elementary students. For a functional materials manufacturer, this represents a meaningful way to interact with and contribute to the community. JGC C&C will continue to kindle an interest in chemistry through these opportunities, which also educate people about their business activities. We will continue to build positive engagement with the community.
Find out more about our other social contribution activities.