LY Corporation Selected for Fifth Consecutive Year as Sustainability Yearbook Member in S＆P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment

LY Corporation (hereinafter "LYC") has been selected as a Sustainability Yearbook Member and listed in The Sustainability Yearbook 2025, which is a ranking of companies with outstanding sustainability performance as assessed by S&P Global, a global research and assessment company in the field of ESG investment. LYC was ranked in the top 5% in the Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA) for the Interactive Media, Services & Home Entertainment industry. LYC has been selected as a Sustainability Yearbook Member for five consecutive years.^*1

^*1 Total includes years the former Z Holdings Corporation was selected as a member.

S&P Global assesses the sustainability performance of the world's leading companies from the perspectives of the environment, society, and governance (ESG) and selects the top 15% companies in each industry every year as Yearbook Members. These members are announced in The Sustainability Yearbook. In the 2025 edition, 780 companies, including LYC, were named out of over 7,690 companies. Among the 780 companies, 80 were Japanese companies.

In addition to its selection as a Sustainability Yearbook Member, LYC is included in Dow Jones Best-in-Class World Index,^*2 Dow Jones Best-in-Class Asia Pacific Index,^*3 and in all six ESG indices^*4 for Japanese stocks adopted by Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), including the MSCI Nihonkabu ESG Select Leaders Index.

^*2 Renamed from Dow Jones Sustainability World Index on February 10, 2025.
^*3 Renamed from Dow Jones Sustainability Asia Pacific Index on February 10, 2025.
^*4 MSCI Nihonkabu ESG Select Leaders Index, MSCI Japan Empowering Women Index (WIN), FTSE Blossom Japan Index, FTSE Blossom Japan Sector Relative Index, S&P/JPX Carbon Efficient Index, and Morningstar® Japan ex-REIT Gender Diversity Tilt Index℠

Based on the material issues it identifies, LYC actively promotes and discloses diverse ESG initiatives under its mission statement of "Create an amazing life platform that brings WOW! to our users." In this way, LYC will continue doing its part in resolving social issues and making a sustainable society into a reality.

References:
LY Corporation – Sustainability
https://www.lycorp.co.jp/en/sustainability/

LY Corporation – Acknowledgment as a Sustainable Company
https://www.lycorp.co.jp/en/sustainability/esg/recognition/

Disclaimer
This is an English translation of the original release in Japanese. This translation has been prepared and provided for the sole purpose of the reader’s convenience. All readers are recommended to refer to the original version of the release for complete information.