The joint-stock company Aroma Praha, as a manufacturer of fragrance and flavor ingredients, continues a tradition in this field in the Czech lands that dates back to 1882. The foundation of the current business group was established in the early 1950s under the umbrella of the Fat Industry, originating from the nationalized companies “František Židlický, First Chemical Factory in Vysočany,” “Hynek Strnad, Liqueur Production,” and Schimmel and Co. During privatization, a separate joint-stock company was created by spin-off from the state enterprise ASTRID. Today, Aroma Praha, a.s., together with Aroco, spol. s r.o., forms a conglomerate-type manufacturing group.

Within its long-standing manufacturing tradition, Aroma Praha, a.s. is a significant producer of fragrance and flavor ingredients, including aromatics, essences, emulsion bases, confectionery pastes, flavoring blends, food colorants, synthetic fragrance ingredients, and fragrance compositions for the food, feed, cosmetics, and household chemicals industries.

The management of Aroma Praha, a.s. recognizes that the company’s prosperity depends on product quality, customer satisfaction, and the state of the environment. Therefore, it has decided to rigorously apply the principles of the quality, food safety, and environmental management system. In order to maintain and improve its market position, the company’s management declares the following strategic objectives:

General Principles

• Achieve compliance with the legal regulations of the EU, the Czech Republic, and, where applicable, the legislation of export countries. Continuously maintain, monitor, and verify this compliance.
• Ensure continuous improvement of the integrated system in accordance with the company’s context.
• Regularly conduct risk analyses, which include, among other things, potential consequences of armed conflicts and pandemics.
• Actively seek alternative suppliers and supply sources to reduce dependence on a single region or supplier that could be affected by armed conflicts or pandemics.
• Strengthen an open approach and dialogue with employees, the public, and other stakeholders by receiving and responding to their suggestions.
• Increase and deepen employees’ awareness of their personal responsibility for work quality, environmental protection, and health and safety through regular training.
• Fulfill the objectives of its policy by setting and reviewing specific goals, target values, and programs, including providing the necessary resources. The goals support the company’s strategic focus and take into account the context of the organization.
• Establish and enforce a code of ethics in all company activities.

Quality Management Principles

• Innovation and expansion of the product portfolio with regard to customer requirements to achieve comprehensive customer satisfaction.
• Ensure the continuous improvement of core processes and their gradual optimization, including the provision of necessary resources, to achieve stability and high quality of products and services, meeting the needs of all our customers.

Environmental Protection Principles

• Continuously improve the environmental management system to enhance environmental performance, all in accordance with the company’s context.
• Invest in technologies and processes that promote energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy sources.
• Ensure environmental protection through monitoring and pollution prevention.
• Implement measures to reduce waste generation, consumption of natural resources, raw materials, and materials. Prioritize material reuse and recycling of waste.
• Minimize negative environmental impacts and actively contribute to climate protection and a sustainable future.

Food and Feed Safety Principles

• Comply with food safety standards and consumer health protection requirements.
• Regularly verify the effectiveness of the critical control point system with regard to changes in raw materials, technological processes, and the use of new technological equipment.
• Conduct a thorough risk analysis related to food safety, identify critical control points (CCPs), and implement measures to eliminate or minimize these risks.
• Ensure regular monitoring of critical control points, including verification of implemented measures, and enhance the effectiveness of tools for the early identification of hazards that may compromise the safety and health integrity of raw materials and products.
• Maintain and regularly verify the traceability system of the production process, both from raw material to finished product and from finished product back to raw material.

Quality management, compliance with food and feed safety principles, environmental protection, and the creation and continuous improvement of safe working conditions, including preventive measures, are among the highest priorities of Aroma Praha, a.s.

In Židovice, May 2, 2024