Sherpa & Company announces corporate rebranding
*Sherpa & Company Co., Ltd.*
Press release: September 10, 2024
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Sherpa & Company announces corporate rebranding
*- As we celebrate our 5th anniversary, we are redefining our company’s role and the value we provide. Revamping our corporate philosophy in anticipation of further business and organizational expansion -*
* Sherpa & Company Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Representative Director and CEO)
Jun Sugimoto (hereinafter referred to as Sherpa) will celebrate its 5th anniversary on September 5, 2024, and have undergone a corporate rebranding. We have renewed our corporate philosophy (management vision, mission, and core values), and accordingly have renewed our corporate website and formulated and published our recruitment policy. *
* ■Background of rebranding*
Sherpa was established in September 2019, and started operating the news media “ESG Journal” in 2021.
In November 2022, we began providing official services for the ESG information disclosure support cloud “SmartESG” for companies. Under the global trend of strengthening sustainability, “SmartESG” is rapidly expanding its business as a solution to relieve the increasing workload of companies, and by the beginning of 2024, the total market capitalization of companies that have adopted it will exceed 100 trillion yen. Ta. The number of employees, including outsourced work, will triple in one year (compared to 2022 and 2023), and at the end of 2023, we will open a Kansai base in Kyoto City as our first regional base, supporting corporate sustainability management on a nationwide scale. We are building a system to do so.
* ■Renew our corporate philosophy and redefine our company’s role in the market and the value we provide*
In recent years, the domestic sustainability/ESG systems market has been rapidly expanding as a framework for sustainability information disclosure has been developed. On the 5th anniversary of its establishment, Sherpa has renewed its corporate philosophy in order to redefine its role in the market and the value it provides as a “sustainability data platform” to improve corporate value. Based on the five years we have spent together with our previous purpose of “Making sustainability and technology a normal part of all economic activities,” we have created an ideal world image (management vision) that we should aim for in our future business development domestically and overseas. To achieve this, we have verbalized the value (mission) that Sherpa can provide.
* ■New corporate philosophy*
* Management vision: “Realize a world where profit and sustainability are fused.” ”*
* Environmental destruction, resource depletion, human rights violations, and information transparency. *
* If companies continue to pursue only profits and turn a blind eye to these issues, they will be unable to maintain their business foundations and economic activity will come to a halt. *
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We will explore the ideal environment, society, and governance, and create a system to visualize invisible non-financial information and convert it into corporate value in order to increase the number of companies that engage in management. We will accompany and carve out a new economic path that goes beyond just the pursuit of profit. * * We will move forward toward realizing a “world where profit and sustainability are fused,” where corporate value increases as sustainable initiatives are evaluated. *
* Mission: “Unleash the potential of non-financial information. ”* * “Achieving both economic rationality and sustainability” is an area where there is still no correct answer. *
* Visualize a company’s sustainable efforts as non-financial information and transform it into the desired economic form. * * We use cutting-edge technology and ESG expertise to unlock the potential of non-financial information,
We will pave the way for a future where companies and society can sustainably prosper. *
We have also updated our core values, which are the organization’s standard of value. These are the values that we value as an organization, and we have defined the values that we would like all Sherpa members to have in common.
* Core values: *
* “Go Higher” * – Challenge – Each person is a challenger to reach even higher heights
* “Integrity First” * – Integrity – Honestly towards all stakeholders * 『Collective Pioneers』 * – Achievements – Be a pioneer group that opens up unexplored areas
* 『Respectful Team』 * – Pride – Become a team that respects each other and is proud of.
* “Fast & Creative” * – Fast and creative – Rush towards the future with quick challenges and creativity
Representative Sugimoto says the following about his thoughts on this rebranding.
“I would like to thank all our stakeholders, including our customers, business partners, investors, and Sherpa members, for continuing to expand our business in the five years since our establishment. SmartESG, an ESG information disclosure support cloud for companies that has grown into a business, will be further advanced and will be expanded to cover financial and non-financial data from the
sustainability department, which has been the main target of support, to include finance and corporate planning. By providing a platform that enables integrated management, we will further focus on supporting the promotion of ESG management in companies. We are also making preparations to expand overseas, including in Asia. We aim to become the No. 1 sustainability data platform that contributes to improving the corporate value of companies both domestically and internationally. ”
For more information, please see below.
* Representative Sugimoto’s note: https://note.com/jun_sgmt/n/nfa6cd96fe4e0
Additionally, we have newly released our recruitment policy. In addition to our basic policy for conducting recruitment activities that respect fundamental human rights, we also describe our policies and corporate stance towards the three parties involved in recruitment activities: candidates, hiring partners, and employees.
* Recruitment page: * * https://cierpa.co.jp/recruit*
Based on our new management vision, “Realizing a world where profit and sustainability are fused,” Sherpa uses cutting-edge technology and ESG expertise to unlock the potential of non-financial information and support companies in advancing their sustainability management. I’m coming.
* ■Company profile*
Company name: Sherpa & Company Co., Ltd.
Representative: Atsushi Sugimoto, Representative Director and CEO Location: 2nd floor, Tokyo Neon Building, 6-4-22 Minamioi, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo Established: September 2019
Capital: 100 million yen
Business: Development and provision of ESG information disclosure support cloud “SmartESG”, ESG/sustainability specialized media “ESG Journal”
Japan” and provide consulting services “ESG Advisory” by experts.