ZOZO Included in the "Dow Jones Sustainability Asia Pacific Index" for the Second Consecutive Year

ZOZO, Inc. (headquartered in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture, Representative Director, President & CEO: SAWADA Kotaro), which operates the fashion e-commerce ZOZOTOWN, announces that on December 23rd, 2024,  it has been selected for inclusion in the "Dow Jones Sustainability Asia Pacific Index" ("DJSI Asia Pacific Index"), which consists of companies in the Asia-Pacific region of the "Dow Jones Sustainability Indices" ("DJSI"), a leading equity index for ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) investment, for the second consecutive year.

The "DJSI" is a leading ESG investment index jointly developed in 1999 by S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC in the United States and RobecoSAM AG in Switzerland. It evaluates companies in the three areas of environment, society, and governance/economy, and companies that excel in sustainability are selected as constituent stocks.

ZOZO has been selected as a component of the "DJSI Asia Pacific Index," which consists of companies in Japan, Asia, and Oceania, for the second consecutive year, receiving higher ratings than last year in the areas of "Human Rights," "Supply Chain Management," and "Risk and Crisis Management."
In addition to the "DJSI Asia Pacific Index", ZOZO has been a constitution of all six ESG indices adopted by GPIF for Japanese stocks (*1). 

ZOZO has worked on enhancing sustainable growth as a company and solving environmental and social issues since April 2021 based on Sustainability Statement "Fashion Connects and Leads us to a Sustainable Future," and four Key Actions (*2) revised in August of this year. ZOZO will keep working on achieving the goal it has set, and to realize a sustainable world of fashion that considers the environment and society.


(*1) FTSE Blossom Japan Index, FTSE Blossom Japan Sector Relative Index, Morningstar Japan ex-REIT Gender Diversity Tilt Index (GenDi J), MSCI Japan ESG Select Leaders Index, MSCI Japan Equity Empowering Women Index (WIN), S&P/JPX carbon efficient Index（Details：Sustainability / External Evaluation）
(*2) Details：Sustainability Statement and four Key Actions



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