AptarGroup
Corporate Bias Rating
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AptarGroup is Medium Risk. The company often yields to political activism in shaping corporate governance, potentially alienating consumers, dividing employees, and harming shareholders. The company implements race and identity-based policies that replace merit, excellence, and integrity with preferential treatment and outcomes. AptarGroup occasionally embraces corporate initiatives that redirect its central focus from business goals to partisan policies and divisive issues at times. This approach fails to safeguard free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.
View Full Corporate Bias Ratings ReportHas canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.
Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.
AptarGroup will not give to or match employee donations to “religious, civic, fraternal, social, political or lobbying groups, and health club organizations” (1).
Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.
AptarGroup offers “Unconscious Bias to Inclusive Leader training sessions and recently launched a self-enrollment IEB [Inclusion, Equity and Belonging] training” for its employees and managers (1). The company was a signatory of the Gender & Diversity KPI Alliance, appearing to prioritize diversity over merit in its business structure through the establishment of gender and racial targets for its leadership composition and its support of DEI in its hiring and promotions (2)(3). The company’s President and CEO, Stephan B. Tanda, signed Catalyst’s Champions for Change pledge, indicating its support of DEI in its leadership composition through the establishment of gender and racial targets (4)(5). The company operates a supplier diversity program. “In 2024, we continued to develop our Supplier Diversity Program and expanded our diverse supplier pool through engagement with local organizations” (6). The company protects its employees against viewpoint discrimination (7).
Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.
AptarGroup is aligned with the Paris Agreement, which entails a commitment to net zero carbon emissions by 2050 (1). The company supports DEI within its business practices, employing a Chief Diversity Officer (2). The company supports DEI within its business practices. From its 2024 Corporate Sustainability Report: “Inclusion, Equity and Belonging (IEB) is one of Aptar’s five strategic priorities under the umbrella of Talent & Leadership” (3). The company supports ESG within its business practices. From its 2024 Corporate Sustainability Report: “Aptar often engages with investors on ESG-related topics” (4).
Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.
AptarGroup has not used corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (1).
Board Bias
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