Corporate Magazine 2012 - Boehringer Ingelheim

usiness year 2012the shareholders’ perspectiveWe look after our patients, partners and employeesAll our business activities have the goal of making the best possible medicationsavailable to people. Here we see Boehringer Ingelheim in the role of the partnerof physicians, state authorities and non-governmental organisations, and, notleast, of patients, for providing innovative medicines and solutions for betterhealth. We cooperate with trust, fairness and mutual respect with our employees.Our basic principle is to encourage each employee to take responsibility for themselvesand others in their actions.We, the shareholders of Boehringer Ingelheim, will, together with the Board ofManaging Directors and our employees further shape the future of BoehringerIngelheim. We would like to express our warmest thanks to everyone mentionedfor the work they have done over the past year, their continued commitment.For us the paramount goal remains independence as a family-owned companythat makes progress for the benefit of patients.signed bychristian boehringerchairman of the shareholders’ committeeThe shareholders’ perspective9