As the industry's market leader, and its largest buyer of raw materials, Givaudan has an important role in preserving resources and a commercial and ethical responsibility to drive sustainable development.

Driving sustainable business practices is already at the heart of what we do. Our new Sustainability programme enables us to coordinate and integrate all our current sustainability-related activities into one structured framework and process going forward.

With advice and support from our sustainability partner, The Natural Step International (TNSI), cross-functional teams from both our flavour and fragrance division developed a challenging and long-term sustainability vision based on five pillars. These pillars cover the entire product life-cycle, from the sourcing of raw materials through to the end-of-life of our customers' products.