"A Christian Company"
Core Values and Principles Inspired by the Bible
St. Cousair, like its parent company St. Cousair, is known among its employees and some customers and associates as "A Christian Company." To learn in detail how this came to pass, please read our story, The Apple Jam Miracle.
In the early 1990s, when St. Cousair was going through its worst economic and financial difficulties, founder Ryozo Kuze was under an enormous amount of stress. His wife, Mayumi, who had become a Christian, read Bible verses to him in order to help calm him. The words he heard often soothed him right to sleep, which was exactly what he needed. Eventually, Ryozo himself became a Christian, and he decided to change the way he relates to family, friends and co-workers.
Ryozo had long been hot tempered and difficult to work with, but after becoming a Christian, he decided to make his company a place with a lively atmosphere, where everyone could feel good being there. Mayumi wrote new company core values and management principles, all of these based on the Bible and focused on mutual respect, caring, helping one another and forgiveness when things go wrong.
These core values and principles emphasize:
- Honesty
- Valuing the Golden Rule
- Self-improvement through humility and sincerity
- Prioritizing teamwork with mutual appreciation for each other
- Respecting and being accepting of others' differences
- Originality, creativity and readiness to take on new challenges
And other similar ideals.
These core values, while based on the Bible, do not specifically quote scripture, other than the mention of valuing the Golden Rule; do to others what you want them to do to you. St. Cousair continues the commitment to these values and principles.
To read our Company Core Values, click here.
St. Cousair Concept
Core Purpose
- Our aim is to be a company of integrity that our customers, shareholders, business clients and partners can rely on through conducting sound business practices.
- We create a rich, mature culture in which people respect each other's differences and contribute to realizing a comfortable and pleasant society.
Core Values
- To be honest.
- To value the Golden Rule. We cherish the heart and the mind and seek to do unto others as we would have done unto us, without discrimination, with an open mind and with respect for others.
- To keep improving ourselves by being humble and sincere.
- To prioritize teamwork with mutual appreciation.
- To be original and creative and always be ready to take on challenges.
Base of Our Company
We operate healthy business activities to fulfill our goal in becoming a good company that contributes to our community and society for a long period of time.
We are open to everyone as we become a healthy company that is operated by partners who share our business concept.
We emphasize the three-sided satisfactions among our partners, customers, and company in order to build mutually fruitful relationships.
Quality Policy
- We operate a quality management system through judgment and action in alignment with our business concept.
- Our first priority is to provide healthy, tasty, and safe food. Our targeted goal is to be at the top of the world standards.
- We continue to improve the effectiveness of our quality management system, clarifying and capturing expectations and needs of our customers in order to exceed customers' expectations.
Quality Vision
- We guarantee that our food is consistently safe from the farm to the family dining table.
- We are unique and offer services that impress our customers.
- We say hello from our heart with a smile.
- We thoroughly implement 5S (Sorting, Setting in Order, Shining, Standardizing and Sustaining) in preparation to greet our customers.
Social Responsibilty
St. Cousair, in accordance with its core values and principles, is committed to supporting local charitable, educational and healthcare institutions. For information on our charitable support, please click here.
