Appendix Glossary 2025 strategy: Committed to Growth, with Purpose Givaudan’s 2025 strategy, announced in 2020, is derived from the Company’s purpose, and sets out the roadmap to deliver sustainable value creation over the next five years for all its stakeholders. It outlines Givaudan’s intention to deliver growth in partnership with its customers, achieve ambitious financial targets, while also making progress on its longer term purpose ambitions in the areas of creations, nature, people and communities. CO₂ equivalent (CO₂e) CO₂e is a unit of measurement that is used to standardise the climate effects of various greenhouse gases. This metric measure is used to compare the emissions from various greenhouse gases on the basis of their global-warming potential, by converting amounts of other gases to the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide with the same global warming potential. CDP Formerly known as Carbon Disclosure Project, CDP possesses the world’s most comprehensive collection of environmental data from companies, organisations and governments and evaluates this data systematically for investors. Climate positive Givaudan’s commitment to do more than reducing or even eliminating emissions: the Company will also develop initiatives to remove carbon from the atmosphere. Communication on Progress (COP) The UN Global Compact requires participating companies to produce an annual COP that details their work to embed the Ten Principles into their strategies and operations, as well as efforts to support societal priorities. Comparable EBITDA EBITDA is the reported EBITDA, as adjusted for significant items of a non-recurring nature which have an impact on the understanding of the underlying normal operating activities Earnings per share Earnings per share are calculated by dividing the Group result attributable to the shareholders of Givaudan SA by the weighted average of the number of shares outstanding during the reporting period. EBITDA* Defined as Earnings Before Interest (and other financial income (expense), net), Tax, Depreciation and Amortisation, corresponds to operating income before depreciation, amortisation and impairment of long-lived assets. EcoVadis EcoVadis aims at improving environmental and social practices of companies by leveraging the influence of global supply chains. EcoVadis’ reliable ratings and easy-to-use monitoring tools allow companies to manage risks and drive eco- innovations in their global supply chains. Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) The process of assessing, treating and monitoring the effects of uncertainty that may affect the achievement of Givaudan’s objectives, especially its publicly stated strategic objectives, or jeopardise Givaudan’s long-term business success. Excellence, Innovation, Simplicity in everything we do Focus area supporting all growth drivers and enablers in the 2025 strategy. It is the Company’s commitment to delivering excellence, innovation and simplicity across the value chain, from operational and financial performance to the delivery of a superior customer experience. Expand the portfolio One of the three growth drivers powering the Company’s 2025 strategy: Bringing enhanced value proposition to Givaudan’s customers while nurturing and building on its core offering. The focus is to leverage the Company’s existing capabilities and innovation pipeline and further expanding beyond the current portfolio of flavours and fragrances, naturals and delivery systems into nutrition, food ingredients and beauty. Extend customer reach One of the three growth drivers powering the Company’s 2025 strategy: With a more fragmented customer landscape the Company will extend its customer reach in all market segments and geographies and asserting its market leadership position with large international and global customers as well as with the fast growing local and regional customer segment. Givaudan – 2021 Integrated Annual Report Appendix Gl ossary 169