Our employees As of the reporting date of 30 June 2025, we employed a total of 8,379 people at our sites in Austria, Poland, the USA, Brazil and China. Currently, just under 57 % of employees work on the production side of the business (production, logistics, maintenance, process engineering, work practices) and the remaining roughly 43 % work on the administrative side. The term "administrative" covers all areas not directly related to production. Currently, 8.1 % of employees work part time. The total number of new employees in the reporting year was 707. The most represented groups among these new appointees were women (23.6 %) and men (18.2 %) aged under 30. Our company's attractiveness as an employer can be measured based on both the recruitment rate and the staff turnover rate, whereby the latter is encouragingly low at Blum (6.7 %) and has been reduced by 1.2 percentage points compared to the previous year. This inspires us to maintain our employee development measures and intensify them where necessary. With regards to training, there were 395 apprentices employed across ten different professions at all our sites on the reporting date, with almost 90 % of them in Austria. ➔ GRI 2-7, GRI 401-1 Employees were distributed across our sites as follows: Social responsibility Sites Proportion in % Austria 81.1 % USA 5.9 % Poland 6.9 % China 4.9 % Brazil 1.2 % Our strength lies in working together – because only by collaborating can we achieve our goals and truly have an impact on environmental protection, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the sustainable use of resources. Anna Adamczyk, Sustainability Management, Blum Poland 53
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