Social mission statement

From our earliest days, our company’s foundation has been built on our core values. They inspire the leadership behaviors and principles which guide us and make us distinct and unique in all our actions. We operate our business in a socially responsible and ethical manner. We treat people as we would like to be treated and we strictly respect rules, laws and the environment wherever we operate.

People: Women & youth, diversity & equal opportunity

Ensuring equality and diversity in the workforce is an essential success factor for BOBST’s sustainable development. The Group fosters transparent corporate management, intergenerational communication, and the promotion of tomorrow’s young talents in all local entities to strengthen its employees’ loyalty and employer brand attractivity.

BOBST wishes to create an equitable and good environment for our society, committing to offer equal working opportunities and remuneration to employees for equal responsibilities throughout the Group. We promote family welfare with child care centers and flexible working time for parents. Our engagement will increase loyalty towards the company and strengthen our brand reputation and attractiveness as an employer.

In addition, the Group focuses on the development of the next generation of leaders by promoting their talents and leadership skills. In 2015, while celebrating our 125th anniversary, we proudly launched initiatives “For the Next Generation”, to encourage equal remuneration (women to men) within the organization. Our main asset is our people: diversity will always be part of our culture and workforce, promoting innovation, fostering corporate culture across regions and positively impacting management and leadership styles. Respecting our social mission statement has become essential in a world moving towards more sustainability.

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Women & youth, diversity & equal opportunity

Diversity of governance bodies and employees (% of women vs. men)

* Variable pay plan

Diversity of governance bodies and employees (by age)

Young leaders (< 35 years old) present in management of Bobst Group

BOBST initiatives and achievements 2022

For many years, BOBST has undertaken initiatives to train young employees, so better to integrate them into the Group’s management and encourage their access to leading positions.

Youth Committee

This is a group of young and diverse employees, aged between 25 and 35, from all business areas of a local entity, chosen by their management for their talents and development potential. They are entrusted with specific projects (continuous improvement with a transversal approach) and collaborate with the top management. 2022 marked a turning point in developing this concept within the Group. The Youth Committee redefined its governance and objectives to prepare the ground for its implementation in other Group entities.

Apprenticeship

For over 130 years, BOBST has ensured that its skills and values are passed down to the younger generation. In specially designed vocational training centers, apprentices acquire technical, methodological, social, and personal skills to build the company’s future. More than 3 500 apprentices have successfully been trained since 1929. More than 10% of middle and senior management positions of Bobst Mex SA are held by former apprentices.

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Immersive mission in foreign languages. As part of BOBST’s initiatives to further develop apprentices for national and international challenges, Bobst Mex Training Center successfully launched a pilot project allowing two youths to experience an immersive three month mission in another language.

Bobst Mex

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Equal remuneration of women to men

Bobst

Bielefeld (Germany)*

* An error occurred in the Bielefeld data in SR 2021. As a result, the published figures for 2021 showed the total number of apprentices in training, not the number of youth who completed their apprenticeship. No apprentice finished its training this year, since Bobst Bielefeld relaunched its apprenticeship program in 2020.

Young leaders development program

This development program (pilot in 2021) involves 20 young leaders (max. 35 years old) with a diverse representation of countries and functions, with a statistical over-representation of women (30% of women on the program against 16% of women in the Group).

Bobst Mex (Switzerland) is the most mature site in compensation, salary, and benefits analysis within the Bobst Group. Its management board and Representatives of the Employee Commission regularly discuss these topics. Since the Swiss Gender Equality Act (GEA) revision on 1 July 2020, wage transparency has been mandatory in Switzerland. The administrative compliance workload was substantial for BOBST in Mex (Switzerland), and accreditation costs amounted to around CHF 20 000.–. Starting in October 2020, the internal analysis of staff compensation was completed in June 2021. From July 2021 to June 2022, PricewaterhouseCoopers carried out the verification process and delivered the certification of equal remuneration to Bobst Mex.

At Group level, BOBST will deploy a similar approach to perform a remuneration analysis compared to Bobst Mex by 2025.

Group objectives by 2025

– Increasing the proportion of women within the Group and strengthening youth inclusion training;

– Appointment of female members into the Board of directors;

– Remuneration ratio 1:1 between men and women within the Group.

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SwissSkills Championship 2022

Two BOBST apprentices won gold medals.

This is a first. Until now, a Frenchspeaking team had never won the title in this category

The mecatronics duo Bastien Chaignat and Marius Fabbri also part in the competition. First they managed to qualify for the semi-finals and then for the finals of this national championship in which over than 1 000 apprentices in 150 different trades participate yearly.

We are pleased and proud that our two mecatronics won the gold medal and thus became the 2022 SwissSkills Champions in the mecatronics branch. Bravo for your commitment, your motivation, your rigor and your discipline!

Congratulations and thanks!

Gold medalists at the Swissskills 2022

National Education Award 2022

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Bastien

Chaignat, Mecatronics

Marius Fabbri, Mecatronics

In 2022, BOBST was awarded the national education prize by the Hans Huber Foundation and Foundation FH SCHWEIZ. The prize is awarded to companies that demonstrate outstanding services in vocational training and serve as a role model throughout Switzerland.