Sustainability

TRE HOLDINGS CORPORATION Integrated Report

Integrated Report 2024

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We have published our Integrated Report 2024, which introduces the corporate image of TRE HOLDINGS as a comprehensive environmental management company and explains its medium- to long-term vision and strategy. This integrated report presents the TRE Group's reason for existing, value-creating foundations, business models, and the value it creates, as it develops diverse environmental businesses.

This report provides a review of the TRE Group's First Medium-Term Business Plan and to communicate the strategies of the Second Medium-Term Business Plan, which started in April 2024, from both a financial and non-financial perspective.

Sustainability Management

TRE HOLDINGS is enhancing our corporate value and strengthening governance structure so that our various stakeholders will trust us. On top of that, we are practicing sustainability management as a comprehensive environment management enterprise that responds to various environment-related needs.

Issue 1: Strengthen the corporate governance structure

Way of thinking about the priority issue

We are working to further enhance balanced relationships with all our shareholders and to maximize mid- to long-term corporate value based on a strengthened governance structure.

Efforts of TRE HOLDINGS

We will strengthen our structure to monitor management decision-making and execution from an independent standpoint. We will do this by being a company with an audit & supervisory committee and ensuring at least one third of our directors come from outside the company and include female officers. In addition, we will establish a nomination & remuneration committee with outside directors accounting for a majority of members.

Issue 2: Develop an environment where diverse personnel can work comfortably

Way of thinking about the priority issue

We respect diversity. Accordingly, we will provide an environment in which each employee can work vibrantly and enjoy a work style with a fulfilling private life in addition to work hours.

Efforts of TRE HOLDINGS

We will promote telecommuting and paperless operations amid the COVID-19 pandemic. We will also promote the appointment of female managers and the acquisition of childcare leave by men to build vibrant workplaces in which it is possible to experience growth together with the company. In addition, we will work to ensure closer communication between companies and departments to foster a sense of unity as the new TRE. For example, managers will listen to the opinions from on-site employees. In this way, we will promote the creation of an open organization.

Issue 3: Promote efforts utilizing our identity as a comprehensive environment management enterprise

Way of thinking about the priority issue

Sincere efforts in the businesses of TRE lead to global environmental conservation. We will enter into collaboration and cooperation with local governments and other companies for things that we cannot achieve in the TRE Group alone. We recognize that the climate change problem is a particularly important issue on a global scale. Under this recognition, we will proactively take action as the TRE Group and also work on the business to treat disaster waste generated by frequent natural disasters.

Efforts of TRE HOLDINGS

  1. We will look to achieve carbon neutrality concerning the electric power we use about five years after our merger.
  2. We will promptly formulate a basic environmental policy. Under this policy, we will come together as one in our group to conduct various activities to contribute to global environmental conservation upon enhancing our environmental activity promotion structure. We will also disclose the integrated report in line with the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) early.
  3. We will participate in RE100 and cooperate with other participating companies.
  4. TRE HOLDINGS will launch a foundation for SDGs promotion upon taking over and developing the TAKEEI Foundation for SDGs Promotion. We will extensively contribute to the promotion of its activities.
  5. We will work on business to support the treatment of disaster waste upon cooperating with related companies and local governments while utilizing the infrastructure and personnel in each of our new group bases.

Policy for Constructive Dialogue with Shareholders

December 2024

TRE HOLDINGS will accurately understand its capital cost and profitability by practicing the policies and achieving the targets below. We will pursue management that is conscious of capital cost and stock price to increase its corporate value.
We will disclose the status of our initiatives and assessments to our shareholders in an easy-to-understand way and actively engage in dialogue with them about the content.

■Actions taken to practice management that is conscious of capital cost and stock price

In analyzing and assessing where we are, we will determine our cost of shareholder capital and weighted average cost of capital while also thoroughly examining the expected effects of planned large-scale investments to estimate our cost of capital precisely. We will disclose this information promptly through supplemental materials to financial statements, medium-term business plans, and other means.
In terms of increasing the return on capital, the Second TRE Medium-Term Business Plan targets a return on equity (ROE) of 10% or higher. To achieve this, we will work to bring large-scale capital investment projects into operation, enter business and capital alliances with major manufacturers to establish a circular economy, and pursue mergers, acquisitions, and overseas business development. At the same time, we will manage our business portfolio appropriately to drive profitability gains for the entire company.
As measures to enhance shareholder returns, we have raised our target total return ratio from the previous 30% to a range of 35% to 40% in the Second TRE Medium-Term Business Plan. While increasing shareholder dividends, we will consider share buybacks depending on stock price trends.

■Dialogue with shareholders: status and other information

TRE HOLDINGS has created a department in charge of investor relations (IR). This department and our president and COO engage in dialogue with shareholders and investors as appropriate.
For investors and shareholders, quarterly financial results briefings are held four times a year, and in fiscal 2023, we also held a total of 127 individual meetings with Japanese and overseas institutional investors and small meetings hosted by securities companies (126 held in fiscal 2022). At these meetings, we analyze trends in our business performance, provide information on progress made in the key businesses and new businesses included in the Medium-Term Business Plan, and hold Q&A sessions to gain the understanding of shareholders and investors. The opinions and requests received through dialogue with institutional investors have been incorporated into the Medium-Term Business Plan announced on May 15, 2024.
Furthermore, to raise our corporate value over the medium to long term, we positively comply, to a reasonable extent, with meeting and interview requests from shareholders and investors seeking to engage in constructive dialogue while ensuring that important unannounced information is not disclosed to only certain investors.
Going forward, we will pursue efforts to engage in further constructive dialogue with investors. These efforts include providing information on business plan progress and on new projects in a timely and easy-to-understand manner through our website and other media, further enhancing our Integrated Report, and planning programs for investors to visit our main recycling plants.

Issuance of Sustainability-Linked Bond

TRE HOLDINGS has developed the following "Sustainability-Linked Finance Framework." The Groups will execute Sustainability-Linked Finance based on the framework. We will pursue sustainable growth to create an efficient recycling society and a carbon-neutral society with our stakeholders.