Basic Approach
Our code of conduct commits us to embracing our corporate citizenship. We uphold our corporate social responsibility in three main ways: creating positive social impacts through our business activities, supporting communities, and encouraging employees to donate their time or money to good causes.
Main Actions
Supporting forestry conservation
We work with community stakeholders to support forestry conservation.
Prima Meat Packers Forest Growing
In 2006, we launched Prima Meat Packers Forest Growing, an initiative that promotes forest conservation activities in Saitama Prefecture. As part of the initiative, employees from PrimaFineFoods Co., Ltd. engage in forest thinning operations and other activities.
Afforestation work during the Shimizu Green Festival
Employees from Prima Meat Packers Hokkaido Plant participate on an ongoing basis in afforestation work during the Shimizu Green Festival, which is organized by the Shimizu Town Forestry Promotion Association.
Afforestation work in Honjo Suigen
Employees from Akita Prima Foods Co., Ltd. participate on an ongoing basis in forest cultivation activities organized by the Honjo Suigen no Mori Ikuseikai.
Dietary education
As a food manufacturer, Prima Meat Packers supplies elementary schools with original learning materials to educate children about the importance of diet and food safety and to transmit a bountiful dietary heritage.
Visiting lectures at Showa Women’s University
Prima Meat Packers offers a lecture on business management in the food industry to Showa Women’s University. The lecture is delivered in the Department of Food Safety Management, part of the university’s Faculty of Food Health Science, by Prima Meat Packer’s Chairperson and Representative Director, Naoto Chiba, in his role as a visiting professor at the university. During each lecture, Chairperson and Representative Director Chiba discusses procurement, product development, production and quality management, and sales operations.
Cleanup event
Prima Meat Packers Hokkaido Plant participates in Love Earth Cleanup in Hokkaido, a cleanup program run by an NPO (the Hokkaido Environmental Community Network). During each event, employees clean the vicinity of the plant.
Prima Meat Packers Ibaraki Plant participates in largescale cleanups organized in the Kasumigaura and Kitaura areas by Tsuchiura’s municipal government. During each event, the employees cleaned the Hanamuro River. A cumulative total of 222 employees participated in the events held in July 2024 and March 2025, and a cumulative total of 238 employees participated in the events held in August 2025 and March 2026.
Promotion of Volunteer Activities
At Prima Meat Packers, Ltd., we offer a volunteer leave program and a volunteer leave-of-absence program to encourage employees to participate in social contribution activities.
Donations
At Prima Meat Packers, Ltd., we provide donations to the Japan Association for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) as emergency support in the event of disasters. Donation amounts for recent fiscal years are shown below. In addition, we regularly provide food donations to children’s cafeterias and engage in other similar activities.
| Fiscal year | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Donation amount | 14,457 | 42,397 | 4,222 |
- *The scope of the figures is Prima Meat Packers, Ltd.