Business principles for a new era

As business leaders, we are experiencing how profoundly the COVID-19 emergency is affecting the world. Our employees face health risks in their daily lives, and challenges in performing their jobs. Our ecosystem of suppliers and customers is under extreme pressure.

Business leaders can help our society and economy get through this crisis and mitigate its impact. We accept our responsibility to address these crises, not only from a safety perspective, but also doing all we can to help our stakeholders now and avoid a prolonged economic impact in the future.

VistaJet joins the honorable company of esteemed peers and CEOs to endorse the World Economic Forum’s Stakeholder Principles in the COVID Era: 

• To employees, our principle is to keep you safe: We will continue do everything we can to protect your workplace, and to help you to adapt to the new working conditions.
• To our ecosystem of suppliers and customers, our principle is to secure our shared business continuity: We will continue to work to keep supply chains open and integrate you into our business response.
• To our end consumers, our principle is to maintain fair prices and commercial terms for essential supplies.
• To governments and society, our principle is to offer our full support: We stand ready and will continue to complement public action with our resources, capabilities and know-how.
• To our shareholders, our principle remains the long-term viability of the company and its potential to create sustained value.
• Finally, we also maintain the principle that we must continue our sustainability efforts unabated, to bring our world closer to achieving shared goals, including the Paris climate agreement and the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda.

The world has gone through other crises. As a global community, we will prevail this time as well. As business leaders, we are at society’s service, to help preserve and rebuild a viable society and economy. Let’s bond together and coordinate our response.

A sincere thank you to:

Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum
Brian Moynihan, Chair of the International Business Committee, World Economic Forum and Chief Executive Officer, Bank of America
Feike Sijbesma, Co-Chair of the Impact Committee, World Economic Forum and Hon. Chairman, Royal DSM, Special Envoy on Coronavirus, Dutch Government
Jim Snabe, Co-Chair of the Impact Committee, World Economic Forum and Chairman, Siemens and Maersk