In an effort to increase employees' awareness of volunteerism, Super Sports XEBIO Hamamatsu-Miyatake (Hamamatsu, Shizuoka) is involved in cleaning up the beach near the store. Hamamatsu-Miyatake employees clean Nakatajima Beach, a popular local surfing spot, twice monthly. They arrive at 7:30am for a half-hour cleanup that has begun to attract local volunteers. This opportunity to interact and bond with each other is part of the significance of their activities for both XEBIO employees and local participants. Once, they even discovered a wounded sea turtle on the beach—with everyone's cooperation it made it safely back to ocean. We also sponsored the XEBIO-ROXY Beach Clean Ladies Circuit women's surfing tournament at Tohoyama Beach (Iwata, Shizuoka). During the event, the organizers (XEBIO employees), athletes, and spectators all worked together to clean up the beach.

As part of XEBIO's environmentally friendly policy, we are working to reduce the amount of cardboard used to transfer products between stores. Until recently, nearly all of our logistics and inter-store product transportation relied on cardboard. However, we have made a switch to collapsible containers that allow us to reuse resources, reduce costs, and take better care of the environment. In fiscal 2006, we saved nearly 300,000 boxes!
With further reductions coming, we pledge to continue protecting the environment in the future, too.

 

Keeping the office A/C at 28°C in the summer is a great way to do our part to reduce greenhouse gases. Cool Biz is the dressed-down wardrobe for the hot summer office—and for the planet. This year, a whole new lineup of materials, designs, and outfits have hit Japan to promote this eco-friendly fashion statement. It has even been suggested that adding a little mint or lavender "aromatherapy" to the office could you feel cool and refreshed through the hot summer. Still, there is still a lot of work to be done to make Cool Biz the norm for the majority of the population. Here at XEBIO, we support Cool Biz at our own offices and recommend that our business partners come dressed down to save the planet.

Japan's Ministry of the Environment also recommends that we lower the thermostat to 20°C through the winter. "If you're cold, put on a sweater." That simple wilingness not to depend overly much on the heater is the essence of Warm Biz: comfortable, easy fashion that won't leave you out in the cold.
In other words, Warm Biz is a way to reduce heating energy and greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, a lot of well insulated modern buildings can maintain an internal temperature of more than 20°C even in the winter. Buildings like these are doing their part to stop global warming.
We support Warm Biz with special retail displays of clothing and accessories designed to keep our customers warm: from gloves and mufflers to innerwear, socks, and blankets.

We design, produce, and sell our very own Cool Biz/Warm Biz lines.
We believe that our customers will understand our aggressive stance on global warming prevention and the environment, and support our eco-friendly product development.

The December 16, 2005 signing of the Kyoto Protocol on the environment was a major step in international cooperation to reduce global warming.
At Kyoto, Japan promised the world to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 6%. XEBIO is part of Team -6%, a national project to meet this goal.