Ridgefield, CT – December 6, 2010 – Boehringer Ingelheim today announced that its employees across the U.S. together volunteered 13,162 hours of their time this year to help individuals and families in the community, exceeding the company’s 2010 goal of 10,000 volunteer hours. The goal was set last April during National Volunteer Week as the company introduced Boehringer Ingelheim Cares VolunteerMatch – an online employee engagement system that measures and tracks employee volunteer activity and provides access to local volunteer opportunities.
“For 125 years, Boehringer Ingelheim has been committed to doing the right thing around the world and in our own backyard,” said J. Martin Carroll, President and CEO, Boehringer Ingelheim USA Corporation. “The generosity of the many Boehringer Ingelheim employees who have volunteered in our local communities demonstrates this commitment.”
At Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in Ridgefield, CT, employees volunteered their time to help six local non-profits on United Way Day of Caring, built 27 bicycles for needy children in the Danbury area, painted 12 murals that will decorate the hallways of Danbury Hospital and other hospitals in the U.S., assembled and donated 2,000 personal care kits to help people impacted by natural disasters; raised funds for breast cancer, diabetes and childhood obesity awareness programs, and supplied 109 backpacks to needy kindergarteners in the Danbury area for their first day of school. Employees also donated their time to help the Regional Hospice of Western CT raise funds to help patients and their families, and provided medical services at Boehringer Ingelheim AmeriCares Free Clinic. In total, Boehringer Ingelheim Ridgefield employees donated their time and talents to more than 50 non-profit organizations in the community.
“Boehringer Ingelheim Cares VolunteerMatch is about our company’s strongest asset – our people – and measuring how much we contribute to our society – not only through our work, but through the time we give and the efforts we make to help others in need,” said Albert Ros, President and Chief Executive Officer, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Boehringer Ingelheim USA Corporation businesses that promote employee volunteerism include Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in Ridgefield, CT; Boehringer Ingelheim Chemicals, Inc. in Petersburg, VA; Boehringer Ingelheim Roxane, Inc. and Roxane Laboratories, Inc. in Columbus, OH; Ben Venue Laboratories, Inc. in Cleveland, OH; and Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. of St. Joseph, MO. The company’s new online system is powered by VolunteerMatch.
About VolunteerMatch
VolunteerMatch is a national non-profit dedicated to strengthening communities by helping good people and good causes to connect. Its award-winning online service, www.volunteermatch.org, makes it easy to find a way to make a difference by location, expertise, or availability. VolunteerMatch provides many of the nation's most recognized businesses, campuses and organizations with Web-based solutions to facilitate and track volunteer engagement at local and national levels. The VolunteerMatch network regularly welcomes more than 190,000 visitors each week and has become the preferred volunteer recruiting service for tens of thousands of participating non-profits.
About Boehringer Ingelheim
The Boehringer Ingelheim group is one of the world’s 20 leading pharmaceutical companies. Headquartered in Ingelheim, Germany, it operates globally with 142 affiliates in 50 countries and more than 41,500 employees. Since it was founded in 1885, the family-owned company has been committed to researching, developing, manufacturing and marketing novel products of high therapeutic value for human and veterinary medicine.
In 2009, Boehringer Ingelheim posted net sales of US $17.7 billion (12.7 billion euro) while spending 21% of net sales in its largest business segment, Prescription Medicines, on research and development.
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