The FGI Group strives to address various social issues, including threats to the global environment, with climate change at the top of the list, as well as economic disparity, by investing in businesses and providing financial solutions based on structured arrangements. This approach serves a dual purpose in that the Group will be part of the effort to realize a sustainable society while at the same time ensure its own sustainable growth. Toward this end, the Group will pursue businesses that underpin achievement of SDGs.
- Renewable energy projects
- Metsä business
- Business succession support, business revitalization services
- Facility upgrades, urban redevelopment projects
- Metsä business
- Support for people with disabilities
- Increase human capital
- Corporate governance
Environment, Society
Activities
Invest in and provide financial arrangements for renewable energy, such as solar, hydro and wind power generation facilities
Aggregate project value
¥37 billion (October 2010–September 2022)
Arranged windpower fund
Arranged windpower fund with small, onshore windpower facilities in Hokkaido as the investment target
Activities
Support to help companies deal with specific business issues
Aggregate project value
¥44.1 billion (October 2010–September 2022)
Activities
Investment and financial arrangement for facility upgrades and urban redevelopment projects
Project value
¥31.2 billion (October 2010–September 2022)
Tsuruoka project
(Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, 2017~)
Arranged financing for a large-scale upgrade project involving several facilities, including a hotel. Entrusted with asset management.
Wakkanai Building Project
(Wakkanai, Hokkaido, 2015~)
Arranged changes to scheme based on Act on Specified Joint Real Estate Ventures to address issues with existing scheme for special purpose company with commercial complex under redevelopment. Entrusted with asset management.
Ethical Choice is Moominvalley Park's original brand
The Ethical Choice logo is applied to comprehensive efforts to develop in-facility production environments, foods, products, materials and services based on ethical and sustainable choices (selection) that place no burden, neither tangibly nor intangibly, on the human body or the environment.
Ethical Choice debuted with “Apron Many Times"
The Reusable Bib comes with the Kids Meal Bucket available at Moominvalley Park. It is a tangible expression of coexistence with nature, made of Paptic®, a resource-efficient material produced from renewable wood fibres by Paptic Ltd., that is durable to allow reuse but flexible and soft to the touch. The idea behind this product is for children wear the bib while enjoying their meal at Moominvalley Park and then use the bib again at home.
To learn more about Ethical Choice, please visit the Metsä official website
Activities
・Sponsor Tonttu Festival*
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Event organized by Decent Work Lab, a non-profit organization the undertakes activities to realize decent work for all.
Festival to promote social inclusion, where people enjoy diversity, understand differences and, as necessary, provide mutual support.
2023 Tonttu Festival
The festival was held at Metsä Village over the November 11-12, 2023 weekend, on the theme of communication, that is, one person conveying an idea and another understanding it. Many modes of communication were applied, including puzzle-solving games using sign language and gestures as well as stage performances and arts and crafts workshops.
To learn more about Tonttu Festival
(Tonttu Festival website)
A strength of the FGI Group is the know-how needed to create products and structures by connecting the various insights and capabilities of management and staff, along with a corporate culture that draws on these qualities to successfully embrace challenges that deliver innovation. Management recognizes that sustainable growth of the Group into the future requires securing human resources with expertise in special fields and developing their skills further, and an improvement in communication and engagement. FGI has prepared several measures to expand human capital.
Activities
Securing human resources
・Take robust approach to recruit human resources with high-level knowledge, techniques and experience irrespective of nationality, gender identification or other personal characteristics.
・Encourage employees to take advantage of childcare leave, expand cafeteria space, promote digital transformation (DX) and pursue other measures to create comfortable working environment.
Human resources development
・Establish programs, such as financial assistance and incentive programs, to help individuals acquire specialized knowledge necessary to the execution of their work.
・Implement personnel evaluation based on individual results and utilizing a target-oriented management system while clarifying behavioral traits required for each position and assessing results based on the ability and aptitude of each employee.
Improving communication and engagement
・Get involved in various meeting opportunities to better understand the unique perspectives of human resources, each of whom brings different knowledge, experience and background into play, and encourage everyone to acquire a multifaceted viewpoint. This process will underpin good communication among employees and build a strong bond between employees and FGI and other companies within the FGI Group, ultimately fostering enthusiasm for the job and promoting deeper engagement.
Governance
Activities
・Transition to company with Audit and Supervisory Committee, raise outside director ratio above 50% (December 2019–)
・Appoint female directors (December 2019–)
・Establish corporate governance guidelines (February 2021)
・Introduce evaluation system for Board of Directors (fiscal 2021)
Relevant information
Corporate Governance
