ASICS has been selected for the second time as a component company of the Dow Jones Sustainability Asia/Pacific Index. The Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) are a series of globally-recognized Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) indices.
The DJSI is jointly determined by S&P Dow Jones Indices (US) and investment company RobecoSAM (Switzerland). The DJSI evaluates the sustainability of company business practices from three perspectives – economic, environmental, and social. Only firms that are rated as leading their respective industries become component companies.
The DJSI Asia/Pacific Index covers companies in the Asia and Oceania region, and 146 companies were selected this year, including 68 from Japan.
“ASICS is honoured to be recognized by DJSI as a sustainability leader in Asia for the second consecutive year,” said Motoi Oyama, President and CEO of ASICS Corporation. ‘We believe that this reflects our progress on priority sustainability topics, in collaboration with our supply chain partners and other stakeholders. Our efforts will continue as we focus on delivering on our 2020 Sustainability Strategy, which supports the ASICS Growth Plan (AGP) 2020.”
This July, ASICS was also selected as a component company of another global SRI index, the FTSE4Good Global Index, created by FTSE Russell (UK). This builds on the company featuring on the MSCI Global Sustainability Indexes, compiled by MSCI (US). ASICS was also included for the first time in RobecoSAM’s The Sustainability Yearbook 2016, which is positioned as the world’s most comprehensive publication on corporate sustainability.
A release from ASICS adds that the company will continue to strive to fulfil its vision to ‘Create Quality Lifestyle through Intelligent Sport Technology’ and to work with business partners that share its commitment to a sustainable and fair sporting goods industry.
