Stakeholder engagement
At Comet, proactive stakeholder engagement is vital for innovation, resilience, and long-term growth. As a leading Swiss high-tech company, we value our diverse stakeholder network – employees, customers, investors, partners, regulatory bodies, and communities – as crucial to our strategic vision and operational success. We promote and encourage dialogue with our employees at all levels by fostering communication through a social intranet, conducting quarterly all-hands sessions, holding regular local town hall meetings in person led by top management, and carrying out employee satisfaction surveys. Through the online channel “Ask the CEO," employees can pose questions to senior leadership at any time. Additionally, employee satisfaction surveys are regularly conducted and serve as a valuable resource.
To meet evolving customer needs, we maintain continuous dialogue through advisory boards and pilot projects, tailoring solutions that address client challenges and uphold high performance and reliability standards. This customer-centric focus reinforces trust and deepens global partnerships. Transparency and trust underpin our investor relations. In 2024, we held regular briefings, attended multiple investor conferences, and facilitated one-on-one meetings, providing comprehensive updates on our financials, strategy, and sustainability efforts, aligning investors with our growth plans. Our supply chain engagement emphasized shared values and sustainability. Through collaborative R&D and joint initiatives, we strengthened partnerships that align with responsible business practices.
Compliance is critical in high-tech industries. In 2024, we actively participated in industry groups and engaged with regulatory bodies in Switzerland and globally, ensuring adherence to standards and contributing insights for advancing technology regulations. Making a contribution to communities is also part of our responsibility. We maintain established educational programs and engage in local community initiatives. This strengthens our role as a responsible corporate citizen and inspires young people to contribute to a livable future through innovation.
Our commitment to refining engagement strategies includes leveraging new digital tools to capture more stakeholder voices and foster deeper relationships, positioning us for sustainable growth in an evolving landscape.
In 2024, ongoing dialogue with our stakeholders led to impactful measures across economic, environmental, social, and governance areas. These included launching new products for semiconductor customers, integrating the highest environmental standards into our new building that is set for completion in Penang, Malaysia, by late 2026, partnering with the European Chips Diversity Alliance (ECDA) project, and extending our Integrity Line whistleblowing system to external stakeholders.