Pulmuone Awarded Highly Outstanding ESG Company, Becoming Nation’s First Food Company Rated A+ for 4 Consecutive Years

◦ Pulmuone is selected as Highly Outstanding ESG Company in 2020 Best ESG Company Awards ceremony hosted by KCGS on Oct 27

◦ Given A in environmental, A+ in social and A+ in governance, Pulmuone is the nation’s only food company to receive overall A+ ESG rating

◦ Faithful activities and outcomes of Pulmuone for sustainable business management are recognized by winning Highly Outstanding ESG Company Award

▲ Won-mu Yoo(right), Head of Compliance at Pulmuone, and Jhin-young Shin(left), President of KCGS are posing for a photo with an award plaque

SEOUL – October 29th, 2020 – Pulmuone is awarded Highly Outstanding Company in 2020 ESG Evaluation which assesses ratings of non-financial values by categories of environmental, social and governance.

Pulmuone announced on 27th that the company was selected as a Highly Outstanding Company in the 2020 Best ESG Company Awards ceremony hosted by the Korea Corporate Governance Service at Korea Exchange Seoul Office, becoming the nation’s only food company to be rated overall A+ grade for four consecutive years.

Pulmuone is also the only food company to obtain overall A+ grade in the country this year. Selected as an Outstanding Company in 2019, Pulmuone is now awarded a Highly Outstanding Company, which is given to two companies out of 40 candidates listed by Korea Corporate Governance Service.

By evaluation categories, Pulmuone received ratings of A in environmental, A+ in governance rating and A+ in social.

▲ Jhin-young Shin(left), President of KCGS, is bestowing an award to Won-mu Yoo(right),

Head of Compliance at Pulmuone

▲ Won-mu Yoo(second left), Head of Compliance at Pulmuone, is posing for a photo with award plaque

along with other awardees

KCGS, a member organization of Korea Exchange, has conducted ESG evaluation since 2011 to measure the level of sustainable management and help listed Korean companies seek improvement.

Based on independently developed evaluation models reflective of domestic and international business management circumstances, KCGS applies 281 core evaluation criteria to assess environmental, social and governance ratings of companies and selects awardees of best ESG companies every year.

“We highly recognize Pulmuone’s efforts to establish evaluation systems for environmentally sustainable management, implement socially responsible activities related to its business sector and ensure independent, diversified rights of corporate boards,” said a KCGS official commenting on Pulmuone’s nomination for Highly Outstanding ESG Company and overall A+ rating.

“We are proud and honored to be awarded as Highly Outstanding ESG company, which is an improvement from the Outstanding ESG Company award last year,” said Sang-mu Yoo, Head of Compliance at Pulmuone in the ceremony. “With an aim to accomplish its mission of becoming a LOHAS company with love for human and nature, Pulmuone will continue its efforts to contribute to the industry and the society by preserving the ESG values.”

▲ Won-mu Yoo, Head of Compliance at Pulmuone, is posing for a photo with award plaque and flower along with Pulmuone colleagues

ABOUT PULMUONE

For decades, Pulmuone has been making plant-forward and Asian-inspired cooking easier and more delicious for people from all walks and stages in life. Pulmuone’s family of brands: Nasoya, Wildwood, Emerald Valley Kitchen, and Monterey Gourmet Foods are proud to inspire healthy eating while providing conscious choices for the planet and its people - putting us all on a path for a better tomorrow.