Stakeholders Vaisala is active in many corners of society, with environmental issues as our priority. We actively seek partnerships and joint opportunities with customers, suppliers, academia, research institutes, and other parties. Stakeholder Assessment We identify and evaluate our stakeholders as part of our sustainability management procedures and preparatory work for strategy reviews. The stakeholder review and materiality assessments are typically done at the beginning of the fourth quarter each year. The process can be an update, conducted internally when no major changes are foreseen, or it can involve surveying key stakeholders or engaging in-depth directly with them. We determine the impact of various stakeholders on the company and analyze how our actions in turn affect them. We actively seek partnerships and joint opportunities with customers, suppliers, academia, research institutes, and other parties. We maintain a constant dialogue with our most important stakeholders. Stakeholder Description Customer Thousands of private, governmental, and public customers in more than 150 countries. Distributors in more than 100 countries. Employees Over 1,600 professionals in more than 30 locations in 17 countries. Society and Environment Universities and research collaborators, meteorological institutes, manufacturing partners and suppliers, governments and regulators, local communities, the media, the public, and the environment. Investors Large shareholders include descendants of the founder Professor Vilho Väisälä, Novametor Oy, Finnish pension funds and other financial institutions, the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, and private households; ownership outside Finland and nominee registrations amounted to 15.7% of shares in December 31, 2017.
