ESG fully integrated in our business

Committed to Growth, with Purpose

As a purpose-led Company, we can go even further to make our world a happier and healthier place.

Our purpose, a guiding star in our 2025 strategy, leads the way to increasing our positive impact on society and the planet in order to ensure our sustainable long-term performance. It is our intention to deliver growth through creating inspiring products for happier, healthier lives while achieving our ambitious financial targets and longer-term purpose ambitions.

Our 2025 strategy

Our 2025 strategy

We are recognised by external organisations as a Company acting as a force for good.

Our strong record of ESG ratings

ESG rating and indices

CDP rating and Leaderboard 2023
CDP
Fifth double ‘A’ in 2023 for climate and water and A– in forests. CDP Leaderboard recognition for supplier engagement in 2023.
EcoVadis Gold medal
EcoVadis
Awarded the EcoVadis gold medal with a score of 73/100.
Rated as ‘low-risk’ in 2021
Sustainalytics
A score of 20.9 and a chemicals industry ranking of 32 out of 562.
MSCI ESG AAA Rating since 2017
MSCI ESG AAA Rating
MSCI ESG AAA Rating since 2017.

We seek the highest standards as a responsible and sustainable business and hold ourselves accountable through bold measurable financial and non-financial goals. You can find comprehensive reporting against our purpose and our financial targets in our Integrated Annual Report.

In addition, we provide more detail on our sustainability-related policies, programmes and performance in several other reports: 

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