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Most of the respondents were either lubricant marketers (89) or blenders (82), while 52 companies were raw material or component suppliers and 36 defined themselves as support services. In total, 121 responses came from SMEs with less than 250 employees, confirming the highly relevant role of smaller organisations in delivering sustainability objectives in the lubricants sector.


strategy, 35 answered that they plan on developing one in the next 1-2 years. Only 6 said they had no such plans.


Compared to most of the companies having a sustainability strategy (129), only a little over a third of respondents (73) reported publishing a sustainability report as well.


What were respondents’ views on Strategy and Reporting? Of the 189 respondents, 129 said they had a sustainability strategy. Interestingly, the more employees the organisation had, the more likely it was for the company to have a sustainability strategy.


Larger companies are more likely to also produce a sustainability report if they have a sustainability strategy. For smaller companies the disparities are bigger with 38 companies with 1-50 employees having said they had a strategy but only 9 of them producing a report currently.


Of the 116 respondents who answered that their company does not have a sustainability report, only around a fifth (22) answered that they have no such plans for the next 1-2 years. Of the 94 remaining companies, 52 plan to produce one in the future but 42 were still unsure.


On the other hand, when asked about the importance of sustainability in their companies, a large majority of respondents (156) would rate sustainability in their company as either very high or high.


Of the 129 respondents who answered that they had a sustainability strategy, almost all of them (123) said they include environmental objectives in their strategy. Economic and social objectives are also included in a majority (112 and 107 respectively) of the sustainability strategies. However, around a quarter (34) of the sustainability strategies do not report on governance aspects. Of the three major nation’s responses, the UK reports most consistently across the four strategic areas, closely followed by US companies and German companies. Out of those 60 companies which answered they did not have a sustainability


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