Tamro and corporate responsibility

This is Tamro Group’s first corporate responsibility report. Our view of corporate responsibility covers economic, social and environmental aspects and their impact on our stakeholders. Since 2008 we have continually developed our approach to corporate responsibility starting with the Group sustainability policy. Since then we have worked hard to involve our stakeholders in all of our markets in the development of our reporting process.

For Tamro corporate responsibility means that it must be an integral part of our day-to-day business with our stakeholders. Our role is key to the societies we work for. We have an important role enabling the safe and effective delivery of right medicines at the right place at the right time.

Our most significant environmental impacts are the transport emissions. Delivering medicines requires driving an enormous number of kilometres around our markets. Our hope is that we will be able to optimize deliveries, set reasonable targets and, in time, cut down the most significant cause of our carbon emissions. This will require intensive stakeholder discussions and co-operation to enable the supply chain to adapt this objective in the coming years.

Governments regulate the pricing of medicines throughout Europe. At the same time, safety issues are a great concern in many of the markets. Our objective is that the official medicine delivery chain will stay safe and trustworthy. We will at all times follow pharmaceutical laws, regulations and standards and work closely with our customers, authorities and other stakeholders involved in the process. It is important to emphasize staff safety training and procedures at all sites.

One of the challenges is to make sure our procurement principles are sustainable and that our suppliers also recognize the importance of the issue. Tamro business units need to develop systematic methods for supplier selection and approval based on common sustainable and ethical principles. These must be defined on the Group level.