Regular disclosure is a prerequisite to strengthen trust
As a leading life science company, we bear a great responsibility to a huge number of stakeholders. Regular reporting and transparency form the basis for our active engagement and ongoing dialogue. Also, we regularly publish comprehensive reports that provide detailed information on our performance, sustainability efforts, and corporate governance.
We aim to have the greatest possible level of transparency regarding our operations, and this defines how we interact worldwide not just with our employees but also with patients, customers, consumers, business partners, political stakeholders, scientists, investors, as well as critics.
As our activities concern the sensitive areas of health and nutrition, they lead to inquiries and the desire to better understand what we do. Against this background, we endeavor to continuously strengthen trust – for which transparent conduct is essential. We want to live up to our social responsibility as a company that acts sustainably and is respected for its contribution to progress in healthcare and agriculture. We want to listen, understand, take concerns seriously and engage in respectful dialogue – also if this is difficult or uncomfortable. Taking concrete action, we have implemented clear commitments promoting transparency beyond regulatory requirements.
The ongoing dialogue that we are having with our stakeholders is particularly important to us. After all, their expectations and viewpoints affect our public acceptance and thus our commercial success. The guidelines for the stakeholder dialogue are our “Bayer Societal Engagement” (BASE) principles and our commitment to the greatest possible transparency.
In our publications, we seek to address our material issues, and to publish content targeted to the needs of analysts and general audiences. With the Sustainability Report, we provide in-depth insights into both our sustainability strategy and our sustainability performance. Additionally, our main corporate reports and publications are supplemented by special ad-hoc reports, that describe topics in depth: https://www.bayer.com/en/sustainability/additional-reports.
