Enactment of “AEON Supplier Code of Conduct”
Dear Business Partners,
Coincident with changing our corporate name to AEON
Co. Ltd. (formerly Jusco Co. Ltd) on August 21, 2001,
we renamed AEON Group as AEON. Ever since, our entire
group is aimed at embodying AEON’s unchanged corporate
philosophy of "Customer satisfaction, as the leading
principle of our emphasis on the ‘pursuit of peace’,
a deep ‘respect for human dignity’, and
the ‘contribution to local community'". We
have since endeavored to achieve all of these by paying
special attention to the daily implementation of an
“ethical behavior”.
We believe that we have to be “truthful”
to all the people related to AEON both, by fulfilling
ethical behavior as well as complying with laws and
regulations. Moreover, we believe that our continuous
challenge, as a 21st Century retailing pioneer, will
contribute to the whole society by bringing innovation
and improving life standards. If we were faced to make
a choice between maintaining the current situation and
venturing to innovation, we would certainly choose innovation
without hesitation.
In this regard, we are pleased to announce the enactment
of “AEON Supplier Code of Conduct” (CoC),
our standards for suppliers. This CoC is original to
AEON and covers 13 areas including the prohibition of
child labor and forced labor, assurance of appropriate
working hours and fair compensation, prevention of environmental
pollution, ban on exchanging gifts, and etc. All suppliers
of AEON are required to follow these standards. As globalization
of corporate production activities gains pace, actions
such as abusing employees’ human rights or ignoring
environmental protection should not be permitted. AEON,
together with its suppliers, will commit not only to
the improvement of product quality, but also to conform
to ethical standards of business in the overall process
of production, and to comply with the legal requirements
regarding the working environment.
AEON will face all the necessary changes with courage
to ensure “a future of limitless promise”,
and to keep innovating to better respond to our customer
expectations and trust. We highly appreciate your understanding
and continued cooperation.
May 2003
Motoya Okada
President
AEON Co., Ltd
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