Stakeholders Evaluation
Nikon Group is doing our best to keep good communications with our stakeholders and reflect their ideas and opinions to our CSR activities. Followings are the evaluations by our outside stakeholders.
SRI index portfolio
Socially responsible investment (SRI) considers not only a company's financial standing and potential for growth but also social responsibility of the company. There are many SRI mutual funds being managed in the world.
FTSE4Good Index Series
Nikon has been a constituent of FTSE4Good Index Series since 2004.
FTSE Group, co-owned by The Financial Times and London Stock Exchange, creates and manages the social responsibility investment indices: FTSE4Good Index Series.
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Morningstar Socially Responsible Investment Index(MS-SRI)
Nikon Corporation was selected as a member company of Morningstar Socially Responsible Investment Index (MS-SRI) in September 2010.
The Morningstar Socially Responsible Investment Index (MS-SRI) is the first socially responsible investment index in Japan. Morningstar Japan K.K. selects 150 companies from among approximately 3,600 listed companies in Japan by assessing their social responsibility, and converts their stock prices into the index.
ECPI Ethical Index Global
In 2011, Nikon Corporation was selected as a constituent of "ECPI Ethical Index Global "by ECPI. ECPI (Establishment:1997 ) is a company based in Italy and Luxembourg, and conducts research, rating and indices about companies' ESG (Environmental, social and governance) performance.
Other outstanding achievements
The year ended March 31,2012
- Received a Prime Minister's Prize of the Fourth Monodzukuri Nippon Grand Award (February 2012)
- Ranked number 12 in "Japan's Best Global Brands 2012" announced by Interbrand Japan (February 2012)
- Received the highest ranking in the digital camera category of the "2011 After-sale Service Satisfaction Ranking" in Nikkei Business Publications (July 2011)
The year ended March 31,2011
- Ranked in eighth place in the Nippon Foundation's selection of 100 admirable CSR-oriented Japanese companies (October 2010)
- Nikon Salon awarded the Photographer Smile Award in the Mecenat Grand Prize category of the 2010 Mecenat Awards (October 2010)
- Nikon CSR Report 2009 has received as Notable COP by the UN Global Compact for the second consecutive year (September 2010)
- Nikon Corporation's Sagamihara Plant and Sendai Nikon awarded the Minister's awards from Japan's Ministry of Health Labor and Welfare (June 2010)
- Nikon CSR Report 2009 recognized as Good Practice by the UN Global Compact & Japan Network (April 2010)
The year ended March 31,2010
- The institutional investors who were signatories to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) praised Nikon Corporation as one of the leaders that are (February 2010)
- Received the highest evaluation in a CSR survey on digital cameras conducted by consumer organizations in Europe (February 2010)
- An employee of Nikon Corporation was granted the"Green Cross Award" (October 2009)
- Nikon CSR Report 2008 has received as Notable COP by the UN Global Compact (September 2009)
- Nikon Imaging (China) Co., Ltd. recognized as an "Excellent Company for CSR in WND (Wuxi New District) "by the Wuxi New District Administrative Committee (June 2009)