BioGaia contributes to better health by selling products with clinically-proven effects. Our business’s health is not only determined by how our products affect our consumers directly but also by their impact on the planet and society as a whole. Therefore, we have divided our sustainability work into three categories:
BioGaia’s operations are based on offering healthy products that promote health and well-being. Product development is based on research conducted in an ethical and transparent manner in order to offer products of the highest quality and products that are clinically proven to contribute to better health, which are marketed and made available in a responsbile manner.
A prerequisite for developing and selling healthy products is that the business is run in a sound and ethical manner. A healthy business is characterised by BioGaia taking into account and managing our impact on our stakeholders in a responsible manner and that employees are satisfied and inspired at work and have the opportunity to develop.
The health of our planet and the health and well-being of people are strongly linked. What affects the planet also affects human health. As a company that strives to contribute to better human health, we must take into account how BioGaia’s actions impact the health of the planet. That means we have to consider the impact of our products on the environment. The only way to create a more sustainable and healthy future is to care for both the health of ourselves and our planet.
As a value-driven organisation, BioGaia believes strong community engagement goes hand in hand with deliberate sustainability work. BioGaia is involved in and supports a number of organisations focused on areas with links to BioGaia’s business.
Since 2013, BioGaia has purchased carbon offsets for the company’s emissions. However, in 2022 the company decided to support the Climate Transformation Fund to maximise the impact of its climate investments.
BioGaia supports Children’s Mission for their work with poor children and families in the Philippines. Children’s Mission runs schools, offers children opportunities for education and healthcare and runs children’s homes as well as a support programmes.
In 2017, BioGaia founded The Foundation to Prevent Antibiotic Resistance, an independent foundation with the aim of preventing antibiotic resistance.
BioGaia, through the organisation Friends of Panzi, supports the 2018 Nobel prize laureate Dr Denis Mukwege and his important work at the Panzi Hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Board of Directors is ultimately responsible for the company’s sustainability performance. The CEO reports on the progress of the company’s sustainability work at every Board meeting.
BioGaia regularly reports information about our work to customers and investors in our sustainability report in accordance with GRI and via global reporting platforms.