Symrise uses the international standards of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) for reporting on its non-financial and sustainability-related performance. The following sustainability record systematically presents all topics and disclosures deemed material by Symrise regarding its profile as well as its business, environmental and social performance for the 2019 fiscal year. Informational briefs on the individual GRI items are supplemented with interactive links. These links will take you to additional information, data and facts. This Sustainability Record complies with the standards (2016) of the Global Reporting Initiative as well as the standards on water and wastewater (303, 2018) and occupational health and safety (403, 2018). The corresponding version of the standard is reported separately for each topic in the form of a respective annual figure.
The Sustainability Record was prepared in accordance with the GRI standards “Comprehensive” option. It also contains our separate non-financial report in accordance with Section 289b (3) of the German Commercial Code (HGB). An overview of the related topics can be found on
Our Company.
All of the sustainability disclosures marked with [thumbnail/icon: check or similar] were audited and verified by an external review pursuant to the AA1000 Assurance Standard. The review assesses all quantitative and qualitative disclosures. The corresponding certification can be found
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For the Materiality Disclosures Service, GRI Services reviewed that the GRI content index is clearly presented and the references for Disclosures 102-40 to 102-49 align with appropriate sections in the body of the report. The Materiality Disclosures Service was performed on the German version of the report.
GRI Content Index
Foundations 2016
General Disclosures
Topic
Indicator
Name
COP
Info
Organizational profile
GRI 102-1:
Name of the organization
GRI 102-2:
Activities, brands, products, and services
GRI 102-3:
Location of headquarters
GRI 102-4:
Location of operations
GRI 102-5:
Ownership and legal form
GRI 102-6:
Markets served
GRI 102-7:
Scale of the organization
GRI 102-8:
Information on employees and other workers
GRI 102-9:
Supply chain
GRI 102-10:
Significant changes to the organization and its supply chain
GRI 102-11:
Precautionary Principle or approach
GRI 102-12:
External initiatives
GRI 102-13:
Membership of associations
Strategy
GRI 102-14:
Statement from senior decision-maker
GRI 102-15:
Key impacts, risks, and opportunities
Ethics and integrity
GRI 102-16:
Values, principles, standards, and norms of behavior
GRI 102-17:
Mechanisms for advice and concerns about ethics
Governance
GRI 102-18:
Governance structure
GRI 102-19:
Delegating authority
GRI 102-20:
Executive-level responsibility for economic, environmental, and social topics
GRI 102-21:
Consulting stakeholders on economic, environmental, and social topics
GRI 102-22:
Composition of the highest governance body and its committees
GRI 102-23:
Chair of the highest governance body
GRI 102-24:
Nominating and selecting the highest governance body
GRI 102-25:
Conflicts of interest
GRI 102-26:
Role of highest governance body in setting purpose, values, and strategy
GRI 102-27:
Collective knowledge of highest governance body
GRI 102-28:
Evaluating the highest governance body’s performance
GRI 102-29:
Identifying and managing economic, environmental, and social impacts
GRI 102-30:
Effectiveness of risk management processes
GRI 102-31:
Review of economic, environmental, and social topics
GRI 102-32:
Highest governance body’s role in sustainability reporting
GRI 102-33:
Communicating critical concerns
GRI 102-34:
Nature and total number of critical concerns
GRI 102-35:
Remuneration policies
GRI 102-36:
Process for determining remuneration
GRI 102-37:
Stakeholders’ involvement in remuneration
GRI 102-38:
Annual total compensation ratio
GRI 102-39:
Percentage increase in annual total compensation ratio
Stakeholder engagement
GRI 102-40:
List of stakeholder groups
GRI 102-41:
Collective bargaining agreements
GRI 102-42:
Identifying and selecting stakeholders
GRI 102-43:
Approach to stakeholder engagement
GRI 102-44:
Key topics and concerns raised
Reporting practice
GRI 102-45:
Entities included in the consolidated financial statements
GRI 102-46:
Defining report content and topic Boundaries
GRI 102-47:
List of material topics
GRI 102-48:
Restatements of information
GRI 102-49:
Changes in reporting
GRI 102-50:
Reporting period
GRI 102-51:
Date of most recent report
GRI 102-52:
Reporting cycle
GRI 102-53:
Contact point for questions regarding the report
GRI 102-54:
Claims of reporting in accordance with the GRI Standards
