SYMRISE AG 
By • Increased quality and transparency
• Key values improved
Symrise is publishing its latest sustainability report with
a new look and new structure. The report, entitled
Sustainable Solutions, underscores the company's
sustainability strategy with facts and figures, background
reports and interesting articles. With this report, Symrise
is inviting stakeholder groups to join the discussion on
sustainability issues.
Acting sustainably means assuming responsibility and
considering the future today. Global megatrends such as
world population growth and the increasing scarcity of
resources present both companies and society with numerous
challenges, such as ensuring health and food supplies. But
these trends also offer great opportunities. That's why
Symrise AG's 2011 annual report and sustainability report
both put a strong focus on global needs and sustainable
solutions. The company wants to offer its customers
solutions to the urgent issues of our time with its
innovative new products and technologies.
"Delivering sustainable added value is a focal point of our
entrepreneurial activity. This means, specifically, that we
aim to offer our stakeholders added value along the entire
value chain and at the same time open up attractive growth
potentials for our company. To do so we collaborate closely
with customers, employees, suppliers and partners and make
their requirements our own," explains Dr. Heinz-Jürgen
Bertram, CEO of Symrise AG, about the company's
sustainability strategy.
Now in its sixth edition, Symrise's sustainability report
documents the development of the company's sustainability
strategy in 2011. A comprehensive performance section
contains specific data and interesting articles on
activities along the value chain. Key figures show how much
progress Symrise made in 2011. Progress was seen in various
areas, such as environmental care, efficiency and safety.
Water consumption dropped 31 percent relative to sales
volumes since 2007, relative energy consumption also
decreased by 23 percent, while relative carbon dioxide
emissions were reduced by 23 percent and the number of
accidents on the job declined by 46 percent.
Four stories detail how Symrise is providing added value
for its stakeholders in the areas of "Securing Success",
"Caring for Nature", "Respecting People" and "Serving
Society". One of these stories offers exclusive insight
into the company's commitment in Madagascar. Symrise
obtains its high-quality bourbon vanilla there and works in
direct cooperation with many thousand vanilla farmers.
Unique among its peers, the company is completely
integrated into the Madagascan economy and assumes
responsibility for local societal and ecological issues.
This commitment helps everyone along the entire value
chain: the farmers and their families, Symrise's customers
and their consumers as well as the company itself.
Symrise aims to continually improve the quality and
transparency of its reporting. That's why the company is
publishing this report at the highest application level
(level A) of the G3 guidelines of the international Global
Reporting Initiative (GRI).www.symrise.com/en/sustainability.
Press Contact:
Bernhard Kott
Tel. +49 55 31 90-17 21
E-Mail: bernhard.kott@symrise.com
Clemens Tenge
Tel. +49 55 31 90-15 90
E-Mail: clemens.tenge@symrise.com
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