Acquisition of talents

The Group believes, just as our predecessors have built today's corporate group without sticking to the precedents, that it would be the source of our competitiveness to continue to value a culture of boldness and daring to take on challenges, and to respect diversity which creates new value by bringing in new ideas. Moreover, under the environment of the aging of the population and the declining birthrate and the decreasing working population, we need to focus our efforts on retention of talents as well.

Specific Measures at Wacoal Corp.

Retention of the inhouse human resources and the acquisition of external human resources

We revised three elements of the HR system, "Transition to Role-based Grading System," "Abolition of Positions and Unification of Treatments" and "Evaluation and Treatment." This would improve the retention of the inhouse human resources and the acquisition of external human resources. We are focusing on recruitment of new graduates as well as lateral hires, including recent graduates and mid-career hires. Going forward, we will continue to use lateral hires for approximately 30% to 50% of the total number of career-track positions, for the purpose of acquiring management candidates, and global, EC, DX, new business and other specialists.

Short-term internship program "Wacoal Career Journey"

We hold a new short-term internship program "Wacoal Career Journey" to strengthen early contacts with diverse talent. This program aims for participants interact with Wacoal employees in person to touch upon actual ways of work and value, and thereby to have first-hand knowledge of the significance and culture in working for the Company. This will deepen the mutual understanding with the workplace before joining the Company, and lead to laying the groundwork for co-creation and innovation which Wacoal aspires to.

Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining Beauty Advisors (Sales Positions)

For the beauty advisor position (sales position) for which acquisition of talent is particularly difficult among several positions, as the measure to acquire and retain talent, we have established since August 2020 a system that enables employees to continue working even if the employee in a sales position who was hired with the working area limited moves for his or her own reasons by allowing a change of the work location to his or her new place when certain conditions are met (cumulative total of users of the system as of the end of April 2025: 46). In addition, with "BANK (BA Alumni Network)," a network of retirees, which began operation in April 2022, we have established a structure to continue relationships even after retirement through provision of various information, support for return to work, introduction of their friends, and other means (Number of registrants as of the end of April 2025: 92). In October 2025, we plan to introduce "hiring based on referrals" in which our employees introduce their friends and acquaintances who could be hired based on the introduction, and we will also work on accepting people with high affinity with Wacoal as employees.

Hiring Status of main positions at Wacoal Corp.