Foreword
Kasper Rorsted, Chairman of the Management Board: “Achieving more
with less.”
Sustainability Strategy
Over the next 20 years, we want to triple the value we create through our business operations in relation to their ecological footprint.
Indicators
Highlights
Some30 % of our managers are women
135years of brand success
More than47,000 employees
15.6billion euros sales
in 2011
More than120nations represented
by our people
42 %of our sales generated in
the emerging markets
42 %of our sales generated
by our top 10 brands
We supported
2,343social projects in 2011
Economic indicators
15,605sales in million euros
2,029adjusted operating profit (EBIT) in million euros
13.0 %adjusted return on sales (EBIT)
3.14adjusted earnings per preferred share (EPS)
in euros
410research and development expenditure in million euros
0.78 dividend per ordinary
share in euros
0.80 dividend per preferred
share in euros
Environmental indicators
180production sites
7,550production output in thousand metric tons
2,220energy consumption in
thousand megawatt hours
652carbon dioxide emissions in thousand metric tons
7,921water consumption in thousand cubic meters
145 waste for recycling and disposal in thousand metric tons
Employee indicators
47,265employees
(as of December 31)
483trainees in Germany
32.5 %proportion of female employees
2average number of training days per employee
31.3 %participation in employee share program
1.1occupational accidents per million hours worked
Social indicators
6,0donations in million euros (financial and product donations, not counting
paid time off from work)
2,343number of projects supported
