Vaisala wants to have an engaging relationship with its stakeholders, as they are the ones who can influence the future of our business. We strive to be open and transparent, responding to stakeholders’ needs to our best abilities. We are active in many corners of society and want to influence and convince people with our expertise. Working with environmental issues is

a priority in our scope of societal affairs and it is in these forums we believe we have the most to offer.

 

We identify and evaluate our stakeholders as part of our risk management process and corporate responsibility processes. Both of these assessment

methods are carried out internally and are part of corporate-wide processes. We determine the impact different stakeholder groups have on us and analyze how our actions in turn affect our stakeholders. We actively seek partnerships and joint opportunities with partners, customers, suppliers, academia, research institutes and other parties. We recognize that all our stakeholders will not either want to or be able to take part in our sustainability communication and do not voice their opinions what they feel is material to our reporting. We try to fill this gap by keeping abreast with good reporting practices in other companies in our industry. In this chapter we discuss our relationship with what we regard as our key stakeholders.

 

This report can function as a foundation for dialogue, as it often does. We seek to engage academia, the scientific community, customers and partners, media and various organizations in dialog with us in order to convey them what it is we do best and why Vaisala is worth their attention. Our customers are our most vocal stakeholder group and last year’s key concerns for our customers ranged from turn-around times in our service depot to bottle-necks in our large project deliveries. In 2011 there were no external stakeholder meetings to specifically target our sustainability reporting or processes.