April 13, 2010

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited

Takeda’s Annual Report 2009 and CSR Data Book 2009
receive third prize in Sustainability Reporting Award

April 13, 2010, Osaka, Japan – Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (“Takeda”) announced today that its Annual Report 2009 and CSR Data Book 2009 have received third prize in the “Sustainability Reporting Award” section of the 13th Green Reporting Award and Sustainability Reporting Award, co-sponsored by Toyo Keizai Inc., and the Green Reporting Forum^[*].

The “Green Reporting Award and Sustainability Reporting Award” were established for the purpose of encouraging the publication of environment reports and improving CSR (corporate social responsibility) initiatives. This year, the Green Reporting Award and Sustainability Reporting Award mark their 13th and 7th anniversary, respectively.
In the Sustainability Reporting Award, there were 219 applications, including our company.

Takeda, as a good corporate citizen, will continue its efforts to further promote our CSR activities.

About Takeda’s Annual Report 2009 and CSR Data Book 2009

We believe that developing superior pharmaceutical products is the essence of CSR for the Takeda Group. Due to this strong link between our business activities and CSR, since fiscal 2006, Takeda has published an Annual Report featuring CSR activities and other non-financial information as part of our shareholders and other stakeholders. For fiscal 2009, in order to further enhance our accountability, we issued the CSR Data Book (PDF version) which had been re-edited to include more detailed non-financial information in addition to the information contained in the Annual Report 2009.
( http://www.takeda.com/investor-information/annual-reports/article_3366.html )

^[*]Green Reporting Forum
An organization founded to study environment reporting by domestic companies from the perspective of the general public. It consists of members involved in environment management at corporations, researchers, accountants and securities analysts.

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