Messages from the Editorial Staff
Thank you for reading Co-Creation Sustainability Report 2017 toits end. I hope you enjoyed reading this year’s sustainability report.
This report sought to explain MARUI GROUP’s vision for
co-creation sustainability management based on the theme ofinclusion. We also received help from many of the stakeholders
that aid us in our initiatives so that we could include a greater
amount of discussions with stakeholders than had been featured
in last year’s report. The result is explanations featuring a morediverse range of viewpoints. However, we realize that there is still
a lot of room for improving upon our reports. We hope to pursue
improvements in future reports based on the advice of our readers, and we therefore ask that you feel free to offer your frankopinions with regard to this report.
I look forward to your ongoing support of MARUI GROUP.
Sustainability Department and ESG Promotion Department
MARUI GROUP CO., LTD.

MARUI GROUP distributes its co-creation management reportand co-creation sustainability report to all employees. I have yetto see another company that does this. MARUI GROUP’s cocreation sustainability reports came into existence by building
upon its co-creation management reports to place more emphasis on the Company’s connections with all stakeholders. AtMARUI GROUP, employees going about their business have adirect impact on management.
Three years have passed since MARUI GROUP began publishing these reports, and we have therefore had the pleasure ofhelping produce six reports. MARUI GROUP’s innovation andevolution has been palpable throughout this process. In its
second cycle of reports, I look forward to MARUI GROUP spreading its unique brand of inclusion to the world through ongoingengagement and co-creation with stakeholders so that people
can always have a glimpse of the essence of MARUI GROUPin the now.
MARUI GROUP Project TeamEDGE INTERNATIONAL, INC.

Efforts to Spread Inclusion
MARUI GROUP put forth the idea of inclusion in Co-Creation Sustainability Report 2016, and the Company has since been engaged in amyriad of efforts aimed at helping create a flourishing and inclusive society offering happiness to all. These efforts will be continued inthe future to spread MARUI GROUP’s concept of inclusion both inside and outside of the Company and thereby help enrich society.

MARUI GROUP holds explanatory
forums for investors to offer
explanations of management policies
and ESG information.

A booth was established at
Eco-Products 2016 to introduce
try-on stores, and we exhibited inthe area devoted to the SDGs at
Eco-Products 2017.

Inclusion Fes 2017 was held as avenue for fostering awarenessamong employees and allowing
them to experience their differences firsthand.

We are stepping up support fornationwide events as part of the OUT
IN JAPAN LGBT coming out project.

We established Order Suits andshoes corners while participatingin the RAINBOW CROSSINGTOKYO 2017 event supportingLGBT job seekers.

We clothed members of the LGBT
community in Marui yukata to enjoy
summer at a star-viewing event heldat the beach.

MARUI GROUP has concluded
a partnership agreement with theJapan Blind Football Association
through which it holds variousworkshops.

Co-Creation Sustainability Report2016 (English-language version)
received a Silver award in theMerComm Annual Report
Competition.

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