About UsCorporate Philosophy

1. Providing truly appreciated healthcare products and services

For people who hope for healthier lives, we will provide the Sawai Group’s products and services that are truly appreciated by them.

2. Developing healthcare products and services focusing on people’s needs

In working together to benefit people who hope for healthier lives, we will focus on the timely and prompt creation of healthcare products and services that meet their needs.

3. Providing reliable healthcare products and services

By pushing ourselves to pursue higher quality in everything we do, we will continue to offer people healthcare products and services they can trust.

4. Sincerely considering the feelings of people who hope for heathier lives

We will listen carefully to people who hope for heathier lives and respond with genuine empathy, thereby ensuring that they stay at the heart of everything we do.

5. Offering information from the viewpoint of people who hope for healthier lives

We will provide people who hope for heathier lives with the most pertinent and beneficial information based on impartial, factual data.

1. Building relationships of trust

We are keenly aware that everything we do leads back to medical and health care.
Through high-quality responses and sincere action, we will build and maintain relationships of trust with medical and healthcare professionals.

2. Developing healthcare products and services from the viewpoint of medical and healthcare professionals

With a precise understanding of needs in the medical and healthcare field, we will develop reliable and safe healthcare products and services with high added value.

3. Ensuring a stable supply

We will provide a stable and timely supply of healthcare products and services by sharing information with medical and healthcare professionals, strengthening relationships with our business partners, and building a demand-sensitive supply system.

4. Providing meaningful information

We will promptly provide accurate, useful information about our healthcare products and services as well as medicine and healthcare in general.

5. Making a full commitment to achieving higher quality

We will make a full commitment to achieving higher quality in everything we do with our healthcare products and services.

6. Complying with laws, regulations, and codes of promotion

We will comply with relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards in all our activities for product promotion and advertising, thereby ensuring the ethicality and appropriateness of those activities.

1. Striving for harmonious coexistence and co-prosperity

We will build relationships of trust with companies that provide products and services with outstanding quality and technical capabilities, as well as companies committed to a stable material supply, aiming to grow and develop together with them.

2. Conducting fair and transparent transactions

We will comply with applicable laws and regulations and conduct fair and transparent business transactions.
We will also offer equitable access to business opportunities and will not make unreasonable use of our superior bargaining position in any transactions.

3. Adequately controlling import and export

When importing or exporting healthcare products, raw materials, machinery, equipment, and technology, we will fully understand and comply with the relevant laws, regulations, and other rules of the countries where we operate, thereby preventing those imports or exports from being misused to threaten world peace.

4. Maintaining prudent business relationships and distinguishing between public and private

We will maintain upright, prudent relationships with our business partners and will not engage in illicit transactions involving the grant or receipt of improper benefits.
We will not attempt to use our professional positions for our own benefit or that of third parties.

1. Vision

We envision that every employee takes part in achieving the Sawai Group Corporate Philosophy. Remaining thankful and humble, we will reflect honestly and sincerely on what we are and what work we are doing. Moving forward, we will continue improving our abilities and attitudes to better foster a deep sense of humanity, responsibility, and integrity throughout our Group.

2. Improving ourselves and tackling new challenges

Recognizing that each of us represents the Sawai Group, we will improve ourselves as professionals and take on new challenges by harnessing our ambition and motivation for positive changes.

3. Ensuring fair, impartial evaluation and treatment

We believe that our employees’ characters and capabilities are our greatest assets.
We will provide opportunities for those with outstanding ability and motivation to perform to their fullest. We will also ensure that all employees are evaluated and treated fairly and impartially.

4. Creating a safe and healthy workplace

In the belief that the best healthcare products and services are made in healthy environments in both mental and physical terms, we will create a safe, healthy, and harassment-free workplace.

5. Promoting diversity and a culture of unity

By creating new ideas and value through the active promotion of diversity, we will create a corporate culture of openness and unity through communication and teamwork based on mutual respect.

6. Achieving a good work-life balance

By enhancing work efficiency and fostering thoughtful cooperation, we will support the diverse lifestyles of our employees so that they can achieve a good work-life balance, as well as harmony with their communities.

1. Maximizing corporate value

We will enhance corporate value through well-informed, rational investment decisions and efficient allocation of corporate resources to achieve the goal of maximizing shareholder and investor profits.

2. Securing the rights and equal treatment of shareholders

We will take appropriate measures to fully secure shareholder rights by establishing a favorable environment for the exercise of voting rights while also securing effective equal treatment of shareholders and their rights.

3. Making prompt, bold decisions from a global perspective

To achieve sustained growth and mid- to long-term improvement in corporate value, we will make prompt, bold decisions from a global perspective, thereby reacting quickly to changes in the business environment.

4. Enhancing our corporate governance

To better enhance our corporate governance, we will build and establish optimal management structures, including internal controls related to compliance and financial reporting.

5. Engaging proactively in investor relations

Through our investor relations (IR) activities, we will disclose financial and non-financial information in a timely and appropriate manner to ensure transparency. We will also strive to engage in constructive dialogue and collaboration with our shareholders and investors.

1. Our social responsibility

We position the realization of the Group Corporate Philosophy through our business activities as our most important social responsibility.
We will contribute to the achievement of the SDGs by improving both access to medicine and healthcare and the financial sustainability of healthcare through the provision of the Sawai Group’s healthcare products and services.

2. Coexisting harmoniously with society

At the Sawai Group as a good corporate citizen, of which each of us acts as a representative, we will make a meaningful contribution to society through an ongoing dialogue with local communities, thereby helping achieve a sound, fulfilling society.

3. Respecting human rights

We support and respect the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights.
We oppose any form of discrimination on the basis of race, gender, nationality, ethnicity, religion, ideology, political opinion, sexual orientation, disease, or disability and will make sure that we are not complicit in human rights abuses.

4. Paying taxes appropriately

As part of our social responsibility, we will comply with the tax laws of every country where we operate and pay all necessary taxes.

5. Eliminating antisocial forces

We will never be involved with any antisocial forces and will work with the police, attorneys, and other outside experts in taking a resolute stand against them.

6. Maintaining appropriate involvement in government and politics

While we do work to build sound relationships with the government authorities, we will never offer gifts, entertainments, or other illegal benefits to government employees of any country.
When we make political contributions and donations, we will do so in a fair and transparent manner in compliance with all applicable laws and company regulations.

1. Preserving the global environment

To help achieve a sustainable society, each of us will actively work to preserve the global environment with keen awareness of the environmental impact of our corporate activities.

2. Preventing global warming

We will investigate concrete ways to prevent global warming and take the initiative in working to reduce CO₂ and other greenhouse gas emissions from our corporate activities and elsewhere.

3. Contributing to a recycling-oriented society

We will work to establish a recycling-oriented society by effectively using our limited resources through recycling and by reducing waste.

4. Managing chemical substances appropriately to reduce their environmental impacts

As part of our responsibility as a company handling chemical substances, we will appropriately monitor and manage the chemicals associated with our business and reduce their environmental impacts.

5. Preserving biodiversity

In full recognition that we owe our production of pharmaceutical products to the diversity of bioresources, we will work to preserve biodiversity through corporate activities that are conscious of their impacts on ecosystems.

6. Ensuring proactive environmental communication

We will increase environmental awareness throughout our Group by collecting information on environmental preservation and educating our employees.
We will also have proactive environmental communication with the general public by disclosing environmental information and participating in related events.

1. Controlling and utilizing corporate assets appropriately

We will maintain appropriate control over all assets of our Group, including tangible assets, intellectual property rights, and information.
At no time will we use these assets for personal or other purposes outside of business.

2. Managing confidential third-party information appropriately and respecting other companies’ intellectual property

We will manage and make appropriate use of confidential information provided to us by other companies by applying standards that are as rigorous as or more rigorous than those applied to our own confidential information. We will also respect the intellectual property of other companies and will not infringe on their rights.

3. Managing personal information appropriately

With full respect for the privacy of all individuals, we will carefully manage the personal information we obtain through our corporate activities in accordance with relevant laws and company regulations.

4. Prohibiting insider trading

We will not be involved in actual or suspected insider trading based on internal or external information not yet made public.
We will also not disclose such information to third parties, including our friends and family members.

5. Preparing and keeping accurate, adequate business records

Recognizing that accurate and adequate records of all our operations provide a basis for public trust in the Sawai Group, we will prepare and keep such records in accordance with relevant laws and company regulations.