CSM is the leading player in its sectors worldwide; the largest supplier of bakery products and a leading player in natural food preservation and green chemicals. Our market position is driven by a powerful ambition: driving our customer's success.
Critical on delivering on that ambition is being innovative, efficient and service oriented at the same time. CSM has the size, knowledge and (financial) resources, required to invest in innovation and services at one hand, and driving efficiencies at the other hand. But even more crucial is the way we approach our customers.
CSM is a truly customer centered company, and as such organized after our customer needs. We help local customers to become more successful by capitalizing on global capacities and local expertise to fulfill their own specific needs. But at the same time we utilize our global presence, to serve international customers around the world and to benefit from global sourcing and procurement.
CSM's values and attitudes have shaped the company through the years and are the key to the company's long-standing success. Everything we do, is motivated by passion, executed in partnership and driven by performance. Like innovation being a function of improving quality of life. And as reflected in our tradition of delivering excellence. But most of all, it is clearly exposed in our commitment to drive our customers' success. That's how we create value for all our stakeholders.
CSM has 8,450 employees, serving customers in 25 countries all over the world, generating annual sales of € 2.6 billion (2008). CSM is listed on NYSE Euronext Amsterdam.