AkzoNobel

About AkzoNobel

AkzoNobel is the world’s leading decorative coatings company and number one in the world for decorative paints and performance coatings. Its portfolio includes market-leading brands such as Dulux Trade, Armstead Trade, Cuprinol, Polycell Trade, Hammerite and Sikkens. AkzoNobel is at the forefront for new product development, continuously expanding portfolios, colour ranges and environmentally sustainable products to offer appliers, specifiers and contractors superior decorating solutions and the support to do a great job. AkzoNobel brands are stocked in over 2,500 merchants nationwide.

Company culture

Making AkzoNobel a Brilliant Place to Work means equipping, empowering and enabling our people to embed a high performance culture where we hold each other to account. We will keep developing our leaders and strive to retain our talented colleagues, increasing the diversity of our teams to continually improve our organisation. We will treat the physical and mental wellbeing of our people as a top priority, ensuring that we provide a working environment that engages them and gives them every reason to stay with us. AkzoNobel has always provided leadership in our market but staying ahead requires a relentless desire to improve. With the customer at the heart of everything we do engaging our key customers in mutually beneficial relationship, we will remain responsive to changing needs and enhancing the customer journey.

Career development and growth

The Top Employer has rated AkzoNobel as European Top Employer for two consecutive years. In the latest benchmark review, the company has been recognized in eight countries – Brazil, China, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK and the US – all of them repeat certifications. AkzoNobel qualifies as a European Top Employer because five of the certified countries are in Europe.

Our focus on employee development, engagement and well-being is continuing to help our employees bring their best selves to work every day. We’re making every effort to further improve our organizational health and ensure that everyone feels included and listened to. We’re determined to do even more to enhance our position as a leading employer.

For further information visit https://www.akzonobel.com/en/careers

EDI (equity, diversity & inclusion) initiatives

At AkzoNobel, we’re committed to fostering a workplace that values and promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I). We believe that embracing diversity, ensuring equity and fostering inclusion are not only ethical imperatives, but also essential drivers of our long-term success. Our DE&I strategy sets forth our vision, principles and objectives to create a respectful work environment where everyone can unleash their full potential.

It’s important to highlight that we don’t tolerate unfair treatment or discrimination due to a person’s age, race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, ancestry, disability, pregnancy, marital status, nationality, chronic illness and/or any other status. We ensure that employees of all backgrounds feel equally valued, receive the right opportunities to progress their careers and have the freedom to be their best selves at work. This fair treatment is integral to all personnel matters including, but not limited to, compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, lay-offs, return from lay-offs, company-sponsored training, education, tuition assistance, and social and recreational programs.

​​​​The objective of this DE&I position paper is to guide behavior and position our passionate commitment to achieving the following pillars.

For further information visit https://www.akzonobel.com/en/about-us/position-statements/diversity-and-inclusion

Sustainability / environmental stewardship

At AkzoNobel, we’re focused on ensuring that the pioneering paints and coatings we supply today can help safeguard our world far beyond tomorrow. We innovate with and for customers and play a progressive and collaborative role in energizing entire industries to advance towards a more sustainable future.

By using the power of paints and coatings – to harness energy, reflect heat, protect surfaces for longer, purify indoor air and reduce drag in ships, for example – we can help customers decrease energy consumption, increase efficiency, lower waste and improve safety, while also being more cost-effective. It’s about finding inventive ways to collectively make a positive contribution to our ever-changing world.

This will be vital if we’re to realize our science-based target of halving our carbon emissions by 2030. It’s one of several ambitions we have for 2030, which also include reaching 50% of revenue from sustainable solutions; achieving 100% circular use of materials; and empowering more than 100,000 people in local communities with new skills.

We put particular emphasis and investment into our sustainable solutions, so our game-changing portfolio of innovative products and technologies is always expanding. This is guided by five key drivers: lower energy and carbon; less waste; reduce, reuse and renew; health and well-being; longer lasting.

For further information visit https://www.akzonobel.com/en/about-us/sustainability-