Our Company
Akzo Nobel is a multicultural company. We are market-driven and technology-based, serving customers throughout the world with healthcare products, coatings and chemicals.

Akzo Nobel conducts its diversified activities through decentralized business units.

We maintain a product portfolio with leadership positions in important market segments.

Our People
Akzo Nobel regards people as its most important resource. We foster leadership, individual accountability, and teamwork.

Our employees are professionals whose entrepreneurial behavior is result-oriented and guided by personal integrity. They strive for the success of their own units in the interest of Akzo Nobel as a global company.

In return, our employees can count on opportunities for individual and professional development in an international working environment. We offer them rewarding and challenging assignments with room for initiative.

Our Commitments
We will focus our efforts on the success of our customers
We will provide competitive returns on our shareholders’ investments
We will create an attractive working environment for our employees
We will conduct our activities in a socially responsible manner
 
Our Ambition
We strive to be the first choice of customers, shareholders and employees, and to be a respected member of society.
 

This Company Statement was adopted by the Board of Management on January 8, 1996.