March 1, 2021

Kirin Holdings Wins Gold Award in the ESG Finance Awards Japan
Second year in a row to receive Environmentally Sustainable Company Category award.
TOKYO, Monday March 1, 2021 - Kirin Holdings Company, Limited (KirinHoldings) received the Gold Award in the Environmental Sustainable Company
Category of the ESG Finance Awards Japan, and the award ceremony was held on
Wednesday, February 24.
The Ministry of the Environment of Japan established the ESG Finance Awards
Japan in fiscal year 2019. These awards recognize institutional investors, financial
institutions, intermediaries, and companies that have made an impact by actively engaging in ESG finance orenvironmental and social projects, with the aim of sharing their leading efforts with the public and promoting
the spread and expansion of ESG finance.
This is the second year in a row that Kirin Holdings has received the Gold Award, following the first award
last year.
Kirin Holdings is also the first Japanese food company to endorse the recommendations of the Task Force on
Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD), and Kirin Holdings will continue to actively disclose
information, including scenario analysis.
The Ministry of Environment’s Comment on Selecting Kirin Holdings
Under the strong will of the top management to make a positive influence on society, Kirin
Holdings has been steadily advancing environmental measures that it has been working onfor a long time, and is implementing advanced initiatives. These initiatives are firmly
embedded in Kirin Holdings' day-to-day activities, and the disclosure of information on
specific initiatives sufficiently conveys to investors the steady functioning of the PDCA
cycle, from goal setting to future actions.
Environmental sustainability has permeated the entire management of Kirin Holdings,according to interviews with company managers, where it was confirmed that the will of top
management, the composition of the board of directors, and the remuneration system all takesustainability into account.

President and CEO
Kirin Holdings Company, Limited
Yoshinori Isozaki

In the scenario analysis guidance published by TCFD in 2020, Kirin Holdings was the only Japanese company tobe selected out of 15 companies worldwide, and Kirin Holdings has become one of Japan's leading environmental
sustainability companies in both name and reality.
In the future, we would like to see Kirin Holdings more proactively demonstrate that advanced environmental
measures are closely linked to medium- and long-term corporate value enhancement. In order to establish itself as
one of the world's leading companies in CSV*1, we would like to see Kirin Holdings further evolve its initiatives
and become one of the world's leading ESG companies through further assimilation of these initiatives in the groupcompanies.
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*1: Creating Shared Value. Combined added value for consumers as well as for society at large.

The Kirin Group has declared that CSV is at the core of its management, and based on the premise of"responsibility as an alcoholic beverage manufacturer," Kirin Holdings are focusing on the three social issuesof health, local communities and societies, and environment through our business.
With regard to the environment, Kirin Holdings announced the Kirin Group Environmental Vision 2050
in February last year, and Kirin Holdings will accelerate our efforts to achieve a sustainable society under
the four key themes of biological resources, water resources, containers and packaging, and climate change.
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