Nuestro impacto

Our efforts in providing affordable and accessible medicines to people who depend on them every day help reduce the financial burden on individuals, especially in low-income communities. By ensuring that essential medicines are available to all and at lower costs, Zentiva supports the fight against poverty by improving health outcomes and reducing healthcare expenses.

By developing, producing and delivering high-quality and affordable medicines, Zentiva helps ensure that people, especially in vulnerable communities, have better access to essential medications. This can improve overall health, reducing the incidence of diseases that contribute to malnutrition and food insecurity.
Good health is crucial for productivity and economic stability. By reaching a population as broad as possible with access to healthcare, we enable them to be productive and secure their food and lifestyle needs.

Zentiva’s purpose and core mission align closely with SDG 3, which aims to provide health and wellbeing for all generations. By increasing the availability of affordable medicines, Zentiva contributes to better healthcare access, improved treatment options, and overall enhanced public health.

We believe quality education is essential for making informed health decisions. As a company, we support lifelong learning by providing employees access to top universities worldwide and offering dedicated internal training programs on key topics.

We actively support the next generation in exploring careers in healthcare. Through job fairs, internships, and partnerships with high schools and universities, we create a win-win situation: sharing our expertise while gaining fresh perspectives from young talent.

Zentiva is a founding member of The PARC (The Pharmaceutical Applied Research Center), which offers postgraduate programs that bridge academic knowledge with industry practice, equipping students with hands-on skills for the pharmaceutical sector.

One of our most meaningful initiatives is SEED (Skill Enhancement for Empowering Development). Since 2022, we have supported women in villages near our Ankleshwar manufacturing site, helping them develop skills to build sustainable businesses. Delivered in collaboration with our CSR partner Kutch Naznirman Abhyan, the program has already trained over 300 women across three villages.

Diversity is deeply embedded in our company culture and reinforced through our Board Policy and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Policy. We continuously monitor People & Organization processes—from attraction and recruitment to retention and development—to ensure fair and equitable treatment.

Gender diversity is just one aspect of our broader approach. We calculate and analyse our gender pay gap annually and strive for a balanced gender representation at all levels of the organization (±5%).

Several Zentiva affiliates, including those in the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, and Poland, have committed to their local Diversity Charters and actively uphold their principles.

Water management is a key part of our climate strategy. We focus on improving water efficiency, increasing the use of recycled/ reused water, treating wastewater from our operations, and closely monitoring water-scarce areas near our manufacturing sites.

In 2024, we supported a project near our Ankleshwar manufacturing site, helping to restore the Maited Village lake. This initiative replenished over 200,000 m³ of water, significantly improving local water resources and contributing to the region’s environmental sustainability.

Across our affiliates, we launched awareness campaigns to promote responsible water consumption—both in our offices and at home.

Energy management is part of our climate strategy. We focus on gaining efficiencies in our energy consumption, increasing the share of renewable electricity in our operations and reducing our dependency on natural gas. We invest to further electrify our operations to meet our targets of the Decarbonization Roadmap 2030.

All our European manufacturing sites are powered by 100% renewable electricity and we further invest into own sources of renewable electricity, such as photovoltaic and wind power.

In our affiliates, we run awareness campaigns to promote more responsible energy consumption in our offices and at home.

We are on an exciting growth journey. As Zentiva grows, more people gain access to the medicines they need. We have proven that economic growth can go hand in hand with investments in a sustainable future.

As a producer and provider of medicines, we recognize our responsibility to over 100 million people and take this commitment seriously. Our success is only possible because of our dedicated team, united in fulfilling our purpose.

We strive to be a great place to work, prioritizing health, safety, quality, compliance, and sustainability. Our policies ensure a fair, safe, and opportunity-rich work environment where our people can thrive.

We employ more than 5,000 people across 30+ countries, fostering innovation and skill development for our talent.

With more than 400 manufacturing sites in Europe alone and direct jobs for over 190,000 people, the generics industry plays a vital role in ensuring sustainable healthcare.

The generics industry delivers a major contribution to public health in Europe. We believe that health for all should be a right and not a privilege.

Driven by our policies, Zentiva transforms our internal operations and the operations across our entire value chain into a more sustainable and responsible business.

By providing high-quality and affordable medications, we help reduce health disparities among countries and communities. This ensures that even low-income populations have access to essential medicines.

With our #WeHelpOthers initiative we engage with communities around us, promoting social inclusion and support vulnerable groups. Every year we set ourselves the target to deliver more than 100 projects across our countries. We do that through volunteering, NGO partnerships, sponsorships, donations and more. 

As part of our climate strategy, we drive efficiency programs for energy and water consumption and our waste management and ensure an efficient use of natural resources.

We explore design opportunities for our products and materials with less environmental impact and the aim of bringing them back into the circular economy. As of today, the current systemic framework the generics industry is operating in, does not give us much space to bring real innovation on the market.

Zentiva reports regularly on its sustainability matters. KPIs are monitored on a monthly basis and progress is reported quarterly. The company publishes its Sustainability Report on an annual basis, which meets global sustainability reporting standards.

We train our people to become ambassadors in health and sustainability matters. While this can sometimes be technical and complex, we make it fun and engaging with Pop-Up Exhibitions, blogs, podcasts and gamification.

We are committed to a comprehensive climate strategy, aligning with the Paris Agreement to limit global temperature rise to no more than 1.5°C by mid-century.

Energy management is a key pillar of our climate strategy. We focus on improving energy efficiency, increasing the share of renewable electricity, and reducing dependency on natural gas.

We are investing in electrifying our operations to meet the targets set in our Decarbonization Roadmap 2030.

All our European manufacturing sites are powered by 100% renewable electricity, and we continue to invest in on-site renewable sources, such as solar and wind power.

Across our affiliates, we run awareness campaigns to encourage responsible energy consumption both in the workplace and at home.

During summer, we are running our “Plastic-free summer”-campaign where we remind ourselves to avoid plastic and take time to help clean oceans and beaches so that we all can enjoy life on our planet now and in the future.

We are committed to restoring biodiversity and have pledged to plant 1 million trees by 2030. To stay on track, we plant over 100,000 trees annually, guided by the 10 principles of the Forest Stewardship Council.

Recently, we launched our bee program to support sustainable beekeeping. By adopting beehives in the Czech Republic, Romania, and Bulgaria, we have provided a home for approximately 2 million bees.

Zentiva has strengthened its governance in all areas of ESG. We ensure that our governance structures are transparent and representative, involving stakeholders from all levels of the organization. Our governance bodies reflect a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives.

Zentiva actively engages with its stakeholders through a regular stakeholder dialogue. 

We join forces with our peers in the industry and a variety of stakeholders to make a difference. We work at industry level with associations such as Medicines for Europe and Business Europe and at country-level with local associations. No one can fight climate change alone.