Area-based Social Initiatives

Supporting the Cosme Bank Project

The Cosme Bank Project is run by the General Incorporated Association Bank for Smiles. We have supported the project since its pilot stage and have donated approximately 22,000 pieces of cosmetics.In addition, since FY2024, we have also been participating in volunteer activities to help with product packaging.
This project is designed to connect companies with a sleeping stock of cosmetics that have no future destinations and mothers in single-parent families suffering economic hardships. We hope that it will bring smiles to as many faces as possible with the power of cosmetics. The aim of this project is to help such mothers become what they want to be, which is in line with our corporate slogan "BE ANYTHING, BE EVERYTHING." We will continue to support this project.

Examples of retained items donated in the past

Barrier Repair Beauty Serum Mask Brightening

For more about the Cosme Bank Project（Japanese Only）

Area-based Social Initiatives

Head Office Initiatives

Concerts at Head Office

Since 2008, two concerts a year have been held in the first floor lobby of the head office building, with local residents and others invited to attend. The music has ranged from classical to popular, with audiences enjoying live performances by professional musicians.

Local residents and employees at a concert

Blood Drive at Head Office

With most blood transfusion recipients being elderly, Japan's declining birthrate and aging population present a growing risk of blood shortages in the future. Since 1993, Mandom's head office has been cooperating with Japanese Red Cross Society industry association blood drives, holding our own drive during the summer months when blood donations among companies tend to decline. Every year, many employees and local residents participate by donating blood.

Participation in Clean-Up Activities at Head Office

As part of our social contribution initiatives, Mandom has been participating in clean-up activities in Osaka City since 2001. The activity now continues as part of the "Osaka Marathon Clean-UP Operation." This initiative, carried out together with the members of the Juniken-cho neighborhood association, has become an important opportunity for us to express our gratitude to the local community through action.

Participants collecting litter along the streets

Fukusaki Factory Initiatives

Job Experience for Junior High School Students

Hyogo Prefecture has been running a "trial week" program for 8th-grade students in the prefecture to learn more about their local area by choosing a workplace experience for one week. Mandom's Fukusaki Factory has accepted students since first year of the program in 1998. High school students also have the chance to experience working at the factory.
The students are given hands-on tasks in different processes that go into manufacturing a product or in environmental improvement efforts. Commenting on the experience, students have said things like, "Work on the production line was fun" and "I learned how difficult work can be." Those in charge of looking after the students have said things like, "They became more dependable little by little" and "They talked with such enthusiasm that I also became enthusiastic."

Junior high school students working at the Fukusaki Factory

Fukusaki Industrial Park Joint Clean-up

Every year we participate in the clean-up events run by the Fukusaki Industrial Park.