ANA joins “Blue Number Initiative”
【TOKYO, December 13, 2016】
ANA HOLDINGS (hereafter ANA HD) has become the first Japanese company to take part in the Blue Number initiative which aims to build ethical food supply chains. Please see the News Release here in English and Japanese.
(The following is an excerpt from the News Release)
ANA HD has become the first Japanese company to take part in the Blue Number initiative*1 which aims to build ethical food supply chains. As interest around the world grows in food safety and traceability, environmental protection and respect for human rights during food production processes, ANA HD will work together with the Blue Number Foundation*1 to build a transparent food supply chain platform in Japan.
The Blue Number acts as a unique identifier for use by anyone involved in the food chain from farmers, producers, distributors and vendors to consumers. Producers can use their blue number to allow the end consumer access to information about their products including contents, nature of the product and region of origin. This ensures that the supply chain linking producers and consumers becomes visible, creating traceability and transparency.
ANA HD aspires to use this platform to further strengthen the management of its supply chain for all food related services including in-flight meals enabling it to continue providing passengers with safe, reliable food products. These activities will also form part of ANA HD’s contribution to the achievement of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals*2.
*1 Blue Number Foundation
The foundation, headquartered in New York is a nonprofit organization that engages in projects around the world and manages registration information from an independent, neutral standpoint. The foundation aims to allow all parties to disseminate information about their activities and raise public awareness of their role through the Blue Number, facilitating the meaningful and effective usage of registered data. In Japan, the Caux Round Table has been the designated national partner since September 2016, and the organization works together with national partners in other nations. The Caux Round Table is a global network of business leaders that aims to harness business activities to create a freer, fairer and more transparent society.
*2 Sustainable Development Goals
These goals were adopted by the United Nations in September 2015 and aim to eliminate extreme poverty, inequality and injustice as well as protect the global environment for the period up until 2030.
【Contacts】
ANA: Corporate Communications, ANA HOLDINGS | +81-3-6735-1111 |
publicrelations@ana.co.jp |
CRT Japan: | +81-3-5728-6365 |
info@crt-japan.jp |
About ANA HOLDINGS INC.
ANAHD is an aviation group with global operations and a total of 63 consolidated subsidiaries and 17 equity method affiliates. It is divided into passengers and cargo services segments as well as airline related business such as Catering and IT Services. ANAHD was formed in April 2013 and is the parent company of ANA; full service carrier, and Vanilla Air; LCC. ANA HD promotes a multi-brand strategy to leverage the strength of ANA brand and stimulate demand in markets not completely covered by its full-service airline offering, while expanding market share for the Group as a whole, leading to enhanced value. ANA has about 260 aircraft flying to over 90 destinations and carrying about 50 million passengers per year. ANA is the largest airline in Japan by revenues and passenger numbers. ANA is a member of Star Alliance. Management vision of ANAHD is “It is our goal to be the world’s leading airline group in customer satisfaction and value creation.”
About CRT
The Caux Round Table (CRT) (http://www.cauxroundtable.org/) is an international network of experienced business leaders, who work with business and political leaders to design the intellectual strategies, management tools and practices to strengthen private enterprise and public governance to improve our global community. In Japan, since 2012, Caux Round Table Japan (https://crt-japan.jp/en/) coordinates a multi-stakeholder platform to discuss adverse human rights impacts which business may be involved with through their activities and in their supply chain, and provides the tools as Sedex (ethical supply chain management platform).
