DSM - the company
DSM strives to create solutions that truly nourish, protect and improve performance. We want to make a positive difference. Health, Nutrition and Materials represent the three fields in which we use technology and products to provide solutions to brighten the lives of people today and generations to come.
About DSM
Who we are as a company is the result of strategic choices that we have made. These in turn are based on our mission and our core value, which define what we believe in and how we go about our business.
Our mission
Our purpose is to create brighter lives for people today and for the generations to come.
We connect our unique competences in Life Sciences and Materials Sciences to create solutions that nourish, protect and improve performance.
Our core value
Our mission is supported by our core value: Sustainability. Everything we do should contribute to a more sustainable world. To us, achieving sustainability means simultaneously pursuing economic performance, environmental quality and social responsibility. In other words, we strive to create value on the three dimensions of People, Planet and Profit simultaneously.
Our brand promise
Bright Science. Brighter Living™. This sums up who we are, what we stand for and what we aim to achieve.
These four words are the shorthand for our mission, our beliefs and our behaviors – a promise that we make to the world in which we operate.
Bright Science refers to the unique way in which we combine Life Sciences and Materials Sciences disciplines, technologies and talents. We partner with customers and other stakeholders – then we share ideas, insights and inspiration to create innovative and sustainable solutions that address the key challenges facing society today.
Brighter Living refers to our commitment to creating products and solutions that make a positive difference to people’s lives. We are constantly seeking new ways to improve quality of life, and we seek to make a positive contribution to the lives of people today and generations to come.
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Organization
DSM has a decentralized organizational structure built around business groups that are empowered to carry out all business functions. This structure ensures a flexible, efficient and fast response to market changes. At the corporate level, a number of staff departments support the Managing Board of Directors and business groups.
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Strategy and external recognition
In 2000, people still saw DSM as predominantly a ‘chemical’ company. But since then we have transformed ourselves into a fully-fledged Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, and now we are entering a new era in which we will grow ‘the new DSM’.
Company strategy
At DSM, we are fully leveraging our unique capabilities in Life Sciences and Materials Sciences to address unmet needs resulting from three key global trends: Global Shifts, Climate & Energy and |Health & Wellness.
To ensure that this will generate maximum sustainable and profitable growth for ‘the new DSM’, we are using four mutually-reinforcing growth drivers: High Growth Economies, Innovation, Sustainability and Acquisitions & Partnerships.
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Financial information
DSM's Quarterly Earnings Summary provides at-a-glance financial information covering the previous five quarters. Our quarterly results provide an overview of the most significant financial developments within DSM covering the preceding three-month period. Earlier quarterly and full-year results are archived and and available in the Information center.
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Innovation and sustainability
We believe that innovation goes hand in hand with sustainability, so we’re embedding sustainability in all of our business activities. Discover how our commitment to sustainability and innovation is helping to create a better world.
Sustainability is our core value
We manage our business with a focus on our core value: sustainability. This means that, among other things, we aim to continuously improve the ecological footprint of not only our own operations but our entire value chain. To do this, we focus on providing what we call ECO+ solutions to create more value with less environmental impact. By 2015, our ECO+ products will make up over 80% of our innovation pipeline and towards 50% of our total net sales.
Innovation is integral to our growth
DSM innovations and products are designed to meet global needs, and they are intended to make a lasting difference to the world in which we live. Our commitment to innovation generated € 1 billion in additional sales in 2010. By 2015, we aim for our total sales from innovation to increase from 12% to 20%.
