SustainabilityMessage from the Sustainability Committee Chair
Organizational restructuring to strengthen sustainability management: Integration of the Sustainability Promotion Group into the Strategy Division
Taro Ikushima
Corporate Officer General Manager,
Corporate Strategy HQ
The various sustainability fields (human capital, climate change, human rights, etc.) have the potential to exert a major impact on TDK both internally and externally, and it is expected that they will pose both risks and opportunities in the execution of business. By identifying these risks and opportunities, we need to properly understand their impact on TDK’s corporate value and connect this impact to the enhancement of corporate value by building the optimum company-wide strategy and business model to deal with it. For this purpose, to promote management that synchronizes the sustainability of society and the sustainability of the TDK Group (the long-term enhancement of corporate value), and the sustainability of society, we developmentally dissolved the Sustainability Promotion HQ, which was a separate body from the Corporate Strategy HQ, and in April 2025 placed it within the Corporate Strategy HQ as the Sustainability Promotion Group.
Establishment of the Sustainability Committee
The TDK Group newly established the Sustainability Committee in April 2025. With the aim of synchronizing the sustainability of society and the sustainability of the Group (the long-term enhancement of corporate value), the Sustainability Committee identifies sustainability-related risks and opportunities, establish and manage company-wide material issues, review them as internal and external environments change, and address sustainability-related regulations.
Positioning of the Sustainability Committee
The various sustainability fields that exist both within and outside our company (such as human capital, climate change, and human rights) is not something that can be address by individual organizations, must be addressed through company-wide efforts. Therefore, we established the Sustainability Committee, comprising members from across multiple organizations, in April 2025 under the Executive Committee Meeting (ECM), which consists of corporate officers.
