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THE ROAD AHEAD Our commitment to responsible business practices
COMMITTED TO OUR RESPONSIBILITY
In Ireland and around the world, AbbVie is committed AbbVie Ireland is committed to communicating openly
to having a remarkable impact on people’s lives. A and clearly with you, our stakeholders. This commitment
simple statement perhaps, but think about what that begins with this booklet, which sets out the road ahead
means: to have a truly remarkable impact means that towards sustained responsible business practice.
we must strive to be remarkable in all we do.
This booklet signals our intent to live up to our
We do this by listening to changing patient needs, looking responsibilities to our people, our communities and our
and thinking ahead, and constantly innovating. By innovating environment in an open, transparent and consistent way.
our product offerings, educating our patients, supporting our We will introduce you to our new company and its strong
healthcare professionals and increasing access to care, this heritage. We will demonstrate the unwavering focus we
remarkable impact is happening right now, all around us. have on helping the patients who rely on us to reach their
highest potential. We will introduce you to AbbVie in
Our remarkable impact is not limited to our Ireland, demonstrating our commitment to the country
customers. We pledge to be a responsible corporate and its people. And we will outline how we will make a
citizen, mindful of our responsibilities to our real difference through our approach to corporate social
people, our communities and our environment. responsibility here in Ireland, and how we will measure and
share our performance through our annual report card.
AbbVie Ireland has developed a vision of responsible
business. We are developing an ethical business culture,
a sustainable supply chain and a responsible approach to
research. We are working with our employees to engage
them with this vision. We are advancing responsible research
and believe in delivering exemplary ecological stewardship.
Young Social Innovators is a youth organisation that believes
in the power of young people to bring about change in their
communities. It focuses on empowering young people
through education for social innovation. AbbVie embarked
on a pioneering programme with the charity to run a series
of EXPLORE Social Innovation Workshops in Dublin, Sligo
and Cork schools. These workshops are tailored to ignite
the creativity of 15 to 18 year olds and empower them
to recognise their potential to make a positive difference
to their lives, the lives of others and to wider society.
THE ROAD AHEAD: OUR COMMITMENT TO RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS PRACTICE COMMITTED TO OUR RESPONSIBILITY1
ABOUT ABBVIE
AbbVie is a global, research-based biopharmaceutical company. Our 25,000 people – including more RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
than 400 based in Ireland – move science forward by applying a unique approach to innovation,
Research and innovation are the cornerstones of AbbVie’s
developing advanced medicines and marketing our products in more than 170 countries. Aiming to
business as a global biopharmaceutical company. Our
have a remarkable impact on patients, we take on today’s most complex and challenging diseases. work in this area focuses on developing medicines that
deliver strong clinical performance, provide more patient
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premature and vulnerable infants. Other AbbVie products
PATIENT-CENTRED licensed here help those with a wide range of immune-
AbbVie has an absolute commitment to the patient. We mediated conditions including rheumatoid arthritis,
draw on our deep expertise in some of the most difficult- Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, and psoriasis.
to-treat diseases to deliver hope to those in need. We
We use collaboration and innovation to put
seek to understand all aspects of a patient’s journey
patients at the centre of everything we do.
with their illness so that we are better equipped to find
solutions. This patient-centred approach to discovery
and development helps ensure we remain focused on
the task of improving lives as we seek to make the most
positive impact possible on the health of society.
One of AbbVie’s medicines is administered to vulnerable infants to help protect them from
Respiratory Syncytial Virus or RSV, a leading cause of bronchiolitis and pneumonia during the
winter months. Synacare is a service provided by AbbVie which involves a qualified paediatric
nurse travelling to the family home and administering the preventative treatment each
month during the RSV season. This means these young patients are kept away from crowded
waiting rooms where they are at risk of contracting RSV and other winter infections.
Since it started in 2008, over 4,000 infants and their families have benefited from the service
which has removed more than 18,500 appointments from the hospital system.
2 THE ROAD AHEAD: OUR COMMITMENT TO RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS PRACTICE ABOUT ABBVIE3
ABBVIE IN IRELAND ABBVIE CORK AbbVie Cork
Carrigtwohill
Our plant in Carrigtwohill, on the
outskirts of Cork, is a modern ‘bulk
tablet’ finish facility which manufactures
ABBVIE SLIGO
solid and capsule formulations.
AbbVie Ireland operates two separate plants AbbVie Sligo Innovative new technologies, in
Manorhamilton Road
in Sligo employing more than 200 staff. The combination with the depth of
company’s high containment facility on expertise that exists within the local
the Manorhamilton Road was established workforce, allow those based there
in 2002 and has dedicated capabilities for to develop and deliver products
potent active pharmaceutical ingredient and processes to support AbbVie’s
and drug product manufacturing. wider global needs. These range from
small scale clinical trial supply to AbbVie Dublin
The quality control labs are equipped with Liffey Valley
large commercial manufacturing.
the latest design technology for chemical and
microbiological analytical testing to meet
customers’ needs. This site recently underwent ABBVIE DUBLIN
a significant €85 million expansion that doubled The company’s commercial offices
its footprint and provided additional capability are located at the Liffey Valley
to support AbbVie’s new product introductions. Office Campus in Quarryvale, west
Dublin. More than 70 people work
AbbVie has a second manufacturing site in here overseeing the sale, supply,
Sligo at Ballytivnan. Founded in 1974, this distribution and marketing of the
plant is now a global centre of excellence for company’s Irish-licensed products.
design control and precision engineering in AbbVie’s Medical Director and Irish
support team work from this site.
the production of drug delivery devices. AbbVie Sligo AbbVie Dublin
Ballytivnan Santry
A second office at Woodford Business
Among the products made at this location
Park, Santry, north Dublin is an
are components for a pen-style device used
international base for a range of AbbVie
by patients who have been prescribed a
manufacturing and engineering services.
company treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, These support company plants all
Crohn’s disease, psoriasis and other immune around the world. The office is a key
mediated inflammatory conditions. base for senior management, finance,
engineering, quality assurance (QA),
The treatment can be delivered via a syringe or programme management, projects and
our pen device but 70% of patients surveyed packaging, engineering, environmental
preferred this latter option, showing how we health services, talent acquisition,
use patients’ needs to drive our innovation. purchasing and development processes.
4 THE ROAD AHEAD: OUR COMMITMENT TO RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS PRACTICE ABBVIE IN IRELAND5
OUR CORPORATE SOCIAL
RESPONSIBILITY FRAMEWORK
FOUR UNIQUE OPPORTUNITIES TIED TO OUR FRAMEWORK FOR CHANGE
AbbVie’s corporate responsibility framework has been structured to allow us to deliver on four unique
opportunities: our environment, our community, our workplace and our marketplace.
We are committed to supporting patients as they make their journey through the continuum of care in order
to improve health outcomes. We utilise the potential of advanced science by leveraging the expertise of our
people to address global health needs, improve outcomes and raise standards, all while building health system
capacity and increasing access to care. And we are committed to maintaining our role as a global philanthropic
leader4 dedicated to transforming education and narrowing the achievement gap in science and literacy.
ENVIRONMENT COMMUNITY WORKPLACE MARKETPLACE
Optimally managing We recognise that building In the workplace, AbbVie AbbVie is committed to
the world’s limited trust and reputation in is committed to building ethical business practices
resources is a key business our communities is also the capability of our in the marketplace
responsibility and AbbVie essential to the long-term employees by developing and we strive to meet
understands that efficient sustainability of our business. their skills to help them the highest levels of
environmental strategies reach their full potential. professional standards.
are crucial to ensure this.
6 THE ROAD AHEAD: OUR COMMITMENT TO RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS PRACTICE OUR CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY FRAMEWORK7
SOME EXAMPLES OF WHAT
WE’VE ACHIEVED TO DATE
ENVIRONMENT COMMUNITY WORKPLACE MARKETPLACE
AbbVie Ireland in Sligo achieved a 14% reduction in AbbVie encourages its workforce to actively Our company is committed to creating opportunities Our AbbVie Code of Business Conduct, published
CO2 emissions over the period 2010-2012 versus support worthy community causes and Irish-based to innovate, collaborate and demonstrate excellence in print and online in 32 different languages, sets out
a target of 12%. The Manorhamilton Road plant employees volunteered over 1,700 hours last year in every day. We offer numerous career paths to help our core guidance and requirements in this regard. Our
installed a low pressure hot water energy (LPHW) partnerships with charities, hospitals and schools. people succeed in our many businesses and functions, employees read and certify this code annually.
building heating system that will reduce the site’s CO2 including research and development, technology, AbbVie expects its business partners, including
emissions by 572 tonnes and deliver significant annual AbbVie and its employees made donations finance, operations, regulatory affairs and compliance, contract workers, vendors, suppliers and consultants,
savings. This energy project won an AbbVie Global and raised funds for a range of causes last year medical affairs, sales, marketing, human resources and to adhere to ethical behaviour within the spirit of
Environmental Health and Safety award for 2013. including the new Cardiology Ward at Our Lady’s more. Last year across AbbVie’s sites in Ireland this this code, and to also observe all applicable laws
Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin, the Irish commitment to developing our people was brought
and regulations when working on our behalf.
A new AbbVie solution for GPs struggling to find time
Cancer Society, the Irish Blood Transfusion to life with 15% of our employees moving to the
to attend educational meetings is also delivering an next level in their career through a promotion. When it comes to innovation, AbbVie starts with the
Service and the North West Hospice.
environmental benefit. Dr Robert Coughlan, a Galway- patients. This often involves delivering value beyond
based consultant rheumatologist, has organised a The key defining feature of a great workplace is the
AbbVie has partnered with Young Social Innovators the medicine. One of the ways we do this is by assisting
continuing series of highly-successful online seminars for level of trust that exists within it. For employees, a
to enable this highly respected charity run a series of patient organisations such as Move4Parkinson’s, a
GPs. The online seminar saved approximately 445,220km great workplace is one where you trust the people
school workshops across the country. These specially- remarkable charity which harnesses the power of
you work with, you have great pride in what you do,
of travel, equating to approximately 31,801 litres of designed events encourage teenagers to consider singing to life-changing effect. Mags Mullarney of
and you enjoy the people you work with. The Great
fuel. AbbVie also sends all certificates of attendance harnessing their unique creative potential by playing an Move4Parkinson’s said, “AbbVie has made resources
Place to Work Institute assesses the policies and
(860 pages to date) and training materials (4,300 pages active role in addressing societal issues that affect them available…which support people with Parkinson’s
practices in place in organisations. It then benchmarks
so far) electronically via email to each attendee, saving and their peers. The work of Young Social Innovators and helps them to have a better quality of life.
these against other organisations in each country. The
trees and contributing to a greener environment. has played a leading role in demonstrating how Irish However, perhaps even more important has been the
Institute conducts an anonymous ‘Trust Index Survey’
All three AbbVie manufacturing sites hold an ISO 14001 students can deliver vital change on a wide range that gathers the employees’ views. Finally, there is an support that AbbVie and its employees have offered
Environment Management Services Certificate whilst of issues from cyber bullying and health awareness in-depth qualitative analysis of open ended comments members of Move4Parkinsons and their families
Cork has been awarded an ISO 50001, an international to animal welfare and social inclusion. AbbVie from employees. AbbVie entered this competition for at a human level in terms of genuine interest, care,
standard for energy management which provides a volunteers have assisted in delivering workshops at the first time in 2014 and the judges selected it among respect and understanding. We believe AbbVie truly
robust framework for optimising energy efficiency. almost twenty schools in Sligo, Dublin and Cork. the Top 20 Best Large Workplaces in Ireland.2 understands the meaning of patient engagement.”
8 THE ROAD AHEAD: OUR COMMITMENT TO RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS PRACTICE SOME EXAMPLES OF WHAT WE’VE ACHIEVED TO DATE9
GLOBAL ABBVIE EXAMPLES In 2013, more than 100 of AbbVie’s most experienced
scientists contributed their expertise to helping solve
RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS FOCUS GLOBALLY
Ethical culture: Our interactions with healthcare
OF OUR CORPORATE NTDs through drug development projects, advisory
boards and compound screening partner organizations.
professionals are meant to impact patient care
RESPONSIBILITY APPROACH
and are guided by openness and transparency.
AbbVie has provided over 100,000 of our compounds
for screening against diseases like tuberculosis.
Responsible research: We engage in responsible
AbbVie aims to have a remarkable impact on patients’ lives at a local and global level. We research practices that respect patients.
try to achieve this as a sustainable business, as a responsible corporate citizen, and as a TRANSFORM EDUCATION
philanthropic leader. Corporate responsibility efforts are focused on our unique opportunities Engaged employees: In 2014, AbbVie is launching
As a new company, we’re just beginning our journey to impact
to support patients, build capacity, leverage expertise and transform education. a new program called ‘Possibilities 365’ to facilitate
education. We’re focusing on narrowing the achievement
employees’ volunteering and giving efforts globally.
gap in science and literacy. We’re making a difference in
Ireland is a global pilot for this new programme due
education in our local communities – and around the world.
to employees’ commitment to their communities.
SUPPORT PATIENTS
AbbVie is proud of our long-term partnership with the
Healthy environment: AbbVie aims for 20% reduction
We support the patient journey through the continuum Asian University for Women based in Bangladesh that aims
in carbon as CO2e total water intake and total waste
of care to improve health outcomes. Innovative patient to educate a new generation of leaders in Asia. AbbVie
disposal by 2020 (normalized by sales and over a
programmes meet patients’ needs around the world. The scientists provide weekly lectures via video conference
2013 baseline). In addition, we aim to reduce AbbVie’s
AbbVie Foundation’s Global AIDS Care Programme has to 25 senior level science students at the university.
recordable incidents 20% by 2020 (absolute number).
reached more than six million children and families, donated
more than 24 million HIV rapid tests and invested more
Sustainable supply chain: In 2013, AbbVie’s first
than $275 million to combat AIDS in the developing word.
annual Supplier Sustainability Survey found 23%
of key suppliers to be sustainable. Our goal is to
BUILD CAPACITY work with key suppliers so that 50% are designated
AbbVie partners and collaborates with others to build health sustainable in 2014, and 100% by 2017.
In 2014, the AbbVie Foundation will launch a new science
system capacity and infrastructure in order to increase access education programme delivered by AbbVie employees
Strategic philanthropy: AbbVie and AbbVie’s
to care. AbbVie and the AbbVie Foundation provided more globally. Ireland is the first country to launch this new
foundations’ 2013 grants and charitable
than $1.5 million in critically-needed product donations programme in primary schools in Dublin, Cork and Sligo.
donations were more than $905 million.
and $550,000 in cash grants to respond to disasters in
2013. We partner with leading organisations, such as the The AbbVie Foundation’s long-term partnership with AMPATH in
Baylor College of Medicine Pediatric AIDS Initiative, which Kenya currently helps support the care and treatment of 160,000 HIV
patients. This is part of the AbbVie Global AIDS Care program that
we’ve supported to build paediatric HIV clinics first in Since the pursuit of possibility takes root at a young
has reached more than six million patients in the past ten years.
Romania and then replicated in Malawi and Tanzania. age, AbbVie supports the Kohl Children’s Museum’s
the world’s recognised health challenges, including travelling science laboratory exhibit to encourage an
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). NTDs are a interest in science among students. More than 9,500
LEVERAGE EXPERTISE
group of infections that disproportionately impact the children and families visited the exhibit when it was
AbbVie aims to leverage our expertise and resources world’s poor and marginalised populations. According on display in Brazil in 2013. AbbVie employees also
to address global health needs and improve standards to the World Health Organisation, more than one billion volunteered at the exhibit to conduct activities for children,
of care. AbbVie is committed to addressing and solving people suffer from one or more of these conditions. sharing their love of science with the young visitors.
10 THE ROAD AHEAD: OUR COMMITMENT TO RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS PRACTICE GLOBAL ABBVIE EXAMPLES OF OUR CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY APPROACH11
MEASURING UP TO OUR COMMITMENTS
AbbVie is a new company and although we have THE ABBVIE REPORT CARD
only just begun our corporate responsibility journey,
we have already managed a number of notable In 2015, the AbbVie Report Card will establish the company’s
achievements. We’ve received a prestigious Western performance across a range of responsible business priorities.
Europe Region Corporate Energy Management Award1 Each year we will assess how we measured up to our
from the Association of Energy Engineers. We have commitments and set new goals for improving our results.
entered a partnership with the charity Young Social
Innovators to encourage young adults to play their The AbbVie Responsible Business Report Card will help us to:
vital role in helping to improve our society3. And we Measure our environmental impact in areas
have been voted one of Ireland’s best places to work. such as energy use, water intake, waste
disposal and recycling and set environmentally
But there is much yet to do…
sustainable targets across all Irish sites
COMMUNICATIONS AND GOVERNANCE Define, explain and demonstrate our commitment
to the local communities in which we work
As a new company steeped in a century-long
Facilitate analysis and improvement of
tradition of responsibility, AbbVie is committed to
workplace standards ranging from personal and
improving lives and we pledge to go about it in a
career development opportunities to delivering
transparent way. We plan to replicate the openness
accident-free working environments
and accountability that is a hallmark of our company’s
financial reporting in the way we communicate our Ensure the company does all it can to promote
corporate social responsibility activity in Ireland. responsible business behaviours in the
marketplace, including maintaining continuity
Good communication goes hand-in-hand with good of supply and improving supplier standards
governance and we intend to make a documented
commitment to assessing responsible business The AbbVie Report Card will provide
practices across all aspects of our business. We us with an opportunity to define our
will do this by undertaking and publishing an company’s approach to responsible
annual responsible business audit. This document business with our stakeholders in a
will report on and measure our performance transparent manner. We will circulate it
as a company in this sphere of activity. to our people and to wider society. In this
way, we will ensure that our responsible
business performance is measured against
a series of publicly defined priorities at a
local, national and international level.
12 THE ROAD AHEAD: OUR COMMITMENT TO RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS PRACTICE MEASURING UP TO OUR COMMITMENTS13
ENVIRONMENT COMMUNITY WORKPLACE MARKETPLACE
For further information on the company and its people,
portfolio and commitments, please contact:
Robert Love (Head of Communications)
AbbVie Limited
Block B, Liffey Valley Office Campus, Quarryvale, Co. Dublin
Telephone: 01 428 7900
Email: robert.a.love@abbvie.com
References: 1. Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) Western Europe
Region Corporate Energy Management Award, 2012. 2. AbbVie
came 16th in the Great Places to Work Ireland rankings in 2013. 3.
AbbVie ‘Schools Innovation Workshop’ partnership with YSI, 2013.
Date of Preparation: August 2014 | IRECOR140171
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