AbbVie Pharmaceuticals S.A.

AbbVie is a global biopharmaceutical company and its mission is to use its expertise, dedicated people and unique approach to innovation to develop advanced therapies that address some of the world's most complex and serious diseases.

"Sustainable development as an integral part of our everyday activity"

AbbVie, in its capacity as a new biopharmaceutical company, has set sustainable development and social responsibility as key pillars of its operation. Not just as theoretical concepts, but as an integral part of our everyday activity.

Our goal is for our actions to make investment with specific objectives, measurable results and benefits that will help us to continue to operate in the future as a responsible company, while providing significant value-add to society. For this reason, we participated recently in the diagnostic tool CRI Pass of the Corporate Responsibility Institute and received the relevant certification while at the same time we participate in a series of initiatives aiming at the enhancement of Responsibility and Sustainable Development in our country.

Our commitment in AbbVie, is to continue to move forward with small but complete and innovative steps to achieve this objective. Having always as partners our stakeholders and as leaders our own employees.

Pascal Apostolides, General Manager, AbbVie Greece, President of the Hellenic Association of Pharmaceutical Companies (SFEE)

Greek Sustainability Code

ESG Criteria Framework Implementation

Πρόκειται για ένα σαφές πλαίσιο ενσωμάτωσης και εφαρμογής των κριτηρίων ESG (Περιβάλλον, Κοινωνία & Διακυβέρνηση) από τους οργανισμούς για την υπεύθυνη λειτουργία τους, μετρώντας την οικονομική, κοινωνική και περιβαλλοντική τους επίδοση. Οι οργανισμοί δημοσιοποιούν την προσέγγιση και τις επιδόσεις τους στους άξονες της Στρατηγικής, της Διαχείρισης Διαδικασιών, του Περιβάλλοντος και της Κοινωνίας, περιγράφοντας τις πολιτικές και τις διαδικασίες που εφαρμόζουν, απαντώντας σε 20 κριτήρια Βιώσιμης Ανάπτυξης, με σκοπό την αυτοαξιολόγησή τους ως προς το επίπεδο ωριμότητας εφαρμογής των κριτηρίων ESG, τη βελτίωση της ποιότητας των δημοσιοποιήσεων και των επιδόσεών τους και την ανάπτυξη μιας ολιστικής προσέγγισης της βιωσιμότητας στην επιχειρηματική τους λειτουργία.

Ανάπτυξη Πρωτοβουλιών & Συμμετοχή στον Εθνικό Διάλογο για την Βιώσιμη Ανάπτυξη του θεσμού Bravo

2015

Responsible Entrepreneurship

"CSR is a priority for AbbVie"

What characterizes AbbVie is that we tried from the very beginning to create a general culture of CSR within our company and not just take individual actions. Therefore, a team created at the sole initiative of a small number of employees, with an initial objective to understand deeply the concept of CSR and then to pass on this knowledge to the rest of the company. We wanted the role of the Management Team to be limited only to our support and commitment that CSR is a priority for AbbVie, in which we invest. In this direction, the team members have used innovative approaches and design thinking techniques, they created internal questionnaires, they made focus groups and in depth interviews with our stakeholders, they conducted workshops with the help of cartoonists and they achieved to pose our objectives and priorities for the next period in full consultation with the entire company and its partners. The foundations have been laid now. But, most importantly, they have been laid by the employees themselves.

Angela Vernadaki, Market Access & External Relations Director, AbbVie Greece