Our sustainability commitments and initiatives put us in contact with a variety of stakeholders all over the world. We cherish these engagements as they provide us with the opportunity to better understand our stakeholders and their needs. Importantly, they enable us to establish lasting partnerships with parties that can affect and stand to be affected by our business. Engaging with our stakeholders is essential to how we do business.
We identified a subset of stakeholders whose interests we consider to be material, as determined by, among other matters, their alignment with our values, objectives and expertise; their proximity to our operations; and their capacity and willingness to collaborate on sustainability issues.
Our stakeholder group includes our community, customers, employees, industry associations, inter-and non-governmental bodies and organisations, investors, national and local authorities as well as suppliers. We aim to maintain an ongoing and constructive dialogue with these groups at all levels of our company.