Shiseido Draws Up Supplier Code of Conduct

Shiseido Co., a major Japanese cosmetics manufacturer, introduced a "Suppliers' Code of Conduct in the Shiseido Group" at a March 22, 2006 meeting of material suppliers to its four cosmetics factories. Shiseido is promoting CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) by pursuing corporate ethics and conservation of the environment, and hopes the code will encourage these kinds of activities among its material suppliers as well.

After Shiseido joined the United Nations Global Compact in 2004, it carried out a questionnaire survey targeting about 500 suppliers at home and abroad. The Code of Conduct was formulated based not only on the survey results, but also on the 10 principles of the Global Compact and case studies of leading companies in the world.

The new code is focused on workers' rights, such as prohibiting child labor and discrimination, and environmental protection, such as preventing illegal industrial waste dumping. Shiseido will gradually introduce the code to more of its suppliers at home and abroad.

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Posted: 2006/08/05 09:48:58 PM
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