Another Award for Abdi İbrahim

Abdi İbrahim won another international award with its 5th Sustainability Report. Abdi İbrahim's 5th Sustainability Report titled "Improvement Journey from Past to Future" received a bronze award at the ARC Awards, known as the Oscar of annual reports and the world's largest international reporting competition. Abdi İbrahim's 5th Sustainability Report, covering the 2019-2020 period and disclosing the company's contributions to the world, society, economy and the pharmaceutical sector as well as its future targets, won a bronze award at the International ARC Awards 2022, one of the most prestigious international awards, in the "Sustainability Report: Americas and Europe" category. The ARC Awards, organized by the US-based MerComm organization and one of the prominent competitions in the field of annual reports, received hundreds of submissions from numerous countries. In the competition, an international jury composed of independent professionals evaluated the annual reports of participating companies according to criteria of creativity, transparency, effectiveness and excellence. Abdi İbrahim's 5th Sustainability Report had previously won the platinum award, the highest honor in the Annual Report category, at the Muse Creative Awards 2022, where the world's most creative ideas and projects are evaluated, and the grand award, the highest honor in the Annual Report category, at the NYX Awards 2022, organized to honor communications design professionals and creative individuals and celebrate their work. In addition to the awards won in the international arena, the company was honored with the gold award, the highest honor in the Sustainability Report category, at Istanbul Marketing Awards 2021, one of Turkey's most exciting marketing awards of the year.  

We are pleased to receive the award

Dr. M. Oğuzcan Bülbül, Director of Corporate Relations, Sustainability and Communications at Abdi İbrahim, who emphasized that the company keeps sustainability in the forefront in all areas on its journey to improve the future, expressed his satisfaction at winning another major international award with the following remarks: "As Abdi İbrahim, we keep sustainability at the center of every step we take and focus on integrating it into every link of our value chain. Sustainability work, which is among our strategic priorities and followed at the Board level, we are shaping with an ESG perspective. While pioneering the pharmaceutical sector in all areas, we aim to open the doors to a healthier, more livable and better future for the people we touch the lives of, our country and our world. In line with the vision of our HEAL2030 sustainability strategy, we take pride in creating added value for all our stakeholders, our country and our world and moving forward with firm steps towards our goal of becoming a carbon-neutral company by 2030. In this context, our sustainability report, which we prepared, winning an award in a competition described as the Oscar of annual reports, is a source of happiness and pride for us."  

A high-aesthetic value, holistic and functional report

Abdi İbrahim's Sustainability Report, the content of which was structured in light of sustainability work including GRI standards, the European Green Deal and the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals as well as Materiality Analysis and Organizational Life Cycle Analysis (O-LCA) conducted with stakeholder participation, nine strategic themes were identified under the headings of "past" and "future" for the report's design. The "Improvement Journey from Past to Future" message was visualized through collages addressing these nine themes. In visual references relating to Abdi İbrahim's past, present and future vision, collages carrying traces from the past were framed with the visual language of today's digital world. The illustrations on the report's cover and separators, prepared by "Editorial," were designed by renowned collage artist "Selman Hoşgör." The photographs of Abdi İbrahim's facilities and headquarters featured in the report were taken by renowned architectural photographer "Cemal Emden." The report, which transparently conveys Abdi İbrahim's systematic and comprehensive projects conducted in the corporate, environmental, social and governance areas in 2019-2020, its performance and targets, is adapted to the digital world, features a horizontal format, user-friendly design and interactive features. The report, enriched with corporate videos, films and links to web pages, stakeholder opinions, icons and infographics, stands out with high aesthetic value, holistic and functional design elements. Abdi İbrahim's 5th Sustainability Report holds the distinction of being Turkey's first corporate sustainability report that has passed the Global Reporting Initiative's (GRI) SDG Mapping Service.