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DSM Annual Report 2016 Royal DSM Integrated Annual Report 2016 DSM at a glance Nutrition means of DSM’s proprietary processes. The Dyneema® brand enjoys very high recognition in the value chains served. The Nutrition cluster comprises DSM Nutritional Products and DSM Food Specialties. These businesses serve the global DSM Resins & Functional Materials is a global player in industries for animal feed, food and beverages, pharmaceutical, developing, manufacturing and marketing high-quality resins infant nutrition, dietary supplements and personal care. solutions for paints, industrial coatings and fiber-optic coatings. Its continuous innovation means that customers can meet DSM Nutritional Products is one of the world’s leading regulatory needs and respond better to consumer demands for producers of essential nutrients such as vitamins, carotenoids, more sustainable materials. nutritional lipids and other ingredients for the feed, food, pharmaceutical and personal care industries. Among its Innovation Center customers are the world’s largest food and beverage companies. DSM is uniquely positioned, offering a combination DSM Innovation Center serves as an enabler and accelerator of global products and local solutions, with a strong focus on of innovation within DSM, providing support to the clusters. With innovation. DSM Nutritional Products consists of the following its Emerging Business Areas, the Business Incubator and DSM business units: Venturing & Licensing, it also has a general business development role, focusing on areas outside the current scope Animal Nutrition & Health addresses the nutritional additives of the business groups. segment of the global feed ingredients market. DSM's products and premixes include vitamins, feed enzymes, carotenoids, DSM’s Emerging Business Areas provide strong long-term minerals and eubiotics. growth platforms based on the company’s core competences in life sciences and materials sciences. The company has three Human Nutrition & Health primarily addresses the nutritional Emerging Business Areas: ingredients markets, but is also active in coloration and preservation in the global food ingredients market. DSM Biomedical supplies innovative biomedical materials that enable medical device manufacturers to make less invasive Personal Care & Aroma Ingredients focuses on active and devices. These can speed up recovery, shorten hospital stays performance ingredients such as vitamins, UV filters and bio- and minimize reoperations, lowering health costs and helping actives for the skin care, sun care and hair care market people to lead longer, healthier and more active lives. segments. DSM Bio-based Products & Services is at the forefront of DSM Food Specialties is a leading global supplier of food building a more sustainable, bio-based economy with solutions enzymes, cultures, yeast extracts, savory flavors, hydrocolloids for clean fuel from agricultural residue and for renewable and other specialty ingredients to the food and beverage chemical building blocks such as bio-based succinic acid. industries. DSM Food Specialties’ advanced ingredients make a considerable contribution to the success of the world’s favorite DSM Advanced Solar develops and provides solutions to brands for the dairy, baking, beverages and savory segments. increase the yield of solar panels – Same sun. More power™. Materials Partnerships The Materials cluster consists of DSM Engineering Plastics, DSM Sinochem Pharmaceuticals (DSP), a 50-50 joint venture DSM Dyneema and DSM Resins & Functional Materials. These formed in 2011, is the global market leader in beta-lactam active business groups are active in specialty materials for pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) such as semi-synthetic technologically sophisticated applications and offer specialized penicillins and semi-synthetic cephalosporins. It is also a leader value propositions. in other active ingredients such as nystatin and next-generation statins. DSM Engineering Plastics is a global player in developing, manufacturing and marketing high-performance plastics, Patheon is a global leader in contract development and addressing key markets in automotive and electronics, and manufacturing services established in 2014 and approximately providing solutions to specialized industries including water 34%-owned by DSM, with customers across the management, breathable textiles and flexible food packaging. pharmaceutical industry. DSM Dyneema is the inventor, manufacturer and marketer of ChemicaInvest is a joint venture established in 2015 in which Dyneema®, the world’s strongest fiber™. This product, based DSM has a 35% shareholding, and comprises the former DSM on ultra high molecular weight polyethylene, is produced by Fibre Intermediates (caprolactam and acrylonitrile) and DSM Composite Resins businesses. DSM – Bright Science. Brighter Living.™ Our purpose is to create brighter lives for people today and generations to come. We use our unique competences in health, nutrition and materials to create solutions that nourish, protect and improve performance. DSM uses its Bright Science to create Brighter Living for people today and generations to come. Based on a deep understanding of key global trends that are driving societies, markets and customers, we create solutions to some of the world’s biggest challenges, thus adding to both our own and our customers’ success. We believe that DSM's continued success will be driven by our ability to create shared value for all stakeholders, now and in the future. Our customers derive value from being able to offer end-users improved products and services; society and the planet derive value from the impact of more sustainable, longer-lasting, safer, healthier and more nutritious alternatives; and, as a result, DSM and its shareholders derive value from stronger growth and profitability. Finally, our employees feel engaged and motivated both through the contribution they make to a better world and the success this creates for the company in which they work. More information on 'How DSM creates value for its stakeholders' can be found on page 20. DSM – Bright Science. Brighter Living.™ Royal DSM is a global science-based company active in health, nutrition and materials. By connecting its unique competences in life sciences and materials sciences, DSM is driving economic prosperity, environmental progress and social advances to create sustainable value for all stakeholders simultaneously. DSM delivers innovative solutions that nourish, protect and improve performance in global markets such as food and dietary supplements, personal care, feed, medical devices, automotive, paints, electrical and electronics, life protection, alternative energy and bio-based materials. DSM and its associated companies deliver annual net sales of about € 10 billion with approximately 25,000 employees. The company is listed on Euronext Amsterdam. More information can be found at www.dsm.com. © 2017 Royal DSM. All rights reserved. Bright Science. Brighter Living. 2016 www.dsm.com Table of contents 6 Key data 108 Report by the Supervisory Board 108 Supervisory Board report 8 Letter from the CEO 114 Remuneration policy for the Managing Board 12 DSM and the Sustainable Development Goals 120 Supervisory Board and Managing Board Royal DSM 14 Report by the Managing Board 14 Strategy 2018: Driving Profitable Growth 122 What still went wrong in 2016 20 How DSM creates value for its stakeholders 22 Brighter Living Solutions 124 Information about the DSM share 24 Stakeholder engagement 39 People in 2016 127 Sustainability statements 49 Planet in 2016 56 Profit in 2016 129 Consolidated financial statements 129 Summary of significant accounting policies 62 Review of business in 2016 135 Consolidated statements 64 Nutrition 141 Notes to the consolidated financial statements of Royal 74 Materials DSM 82 Innovation Center 87 Corporate Activities 192 Parent company financial statements 88 Partnerships 194 Notes to the parent company financial statements 90 Financial and reporting policy 206 Other information 90 Financial policy 206 Independent auditor's report 91 Reporting policy 211 Independent auditor's assurance report 213 Special statutory rights 93 Corporate governance and risk management 213 Important dates 93 Introduction 94 Dutch corporate governance code 214 DSM figures: five-year summary 95 Governance framework 98 DSM Code of Business Conduct 217 Explanation of some concepts and ratios 102 Risk management 107 Statements of the Managing Board 220 List of abbreviations Forward-looking statements This document may contain forward-looking statements with respect to DSM's future (financial) performance and position. Such statements are based on current expectations, estimates and projections of DSM and information currently available to the company. Examples of forward-looking statements include statements made or implied about the company’s strategy, estimates of sales growth, financial results, cost savings and future developments in its existing businesses as well as the impact of future acquisitions, and the company’s financial position. These statements can be management estimates based on information provided by specialized agencies or advisors. DSM cautions readers that such statements involve certain risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict and therefore it should be understood that many factors can cause the company's actual performance and position to differ materially from these statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, macro-economic, market and
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