Our “Promise for Life” is a statement that describes – for our customers, our communities, our shareholders and all of our stakeholders – what we believe in, what we value, and what we strive to deliver in our day-to-day work. For Abbott employees, Our Promise is our compass – guiding us in our actions and decision making, to ensure we live up to the high expectations we’ve set for ourselves in order to serve our stakeholders better. Our Promise challenges us to continually improve and inspires us to always aim higher.

A Promise for Life: Turning Science into Caring

We are here for the people we serve in their pursuit of healthy lives. This has been the way of Abbott for more than a century – passionately and thoughtfully translating science into lasting contributions to health.

Our products encircle life, from newborns to aging adults, from nutrition and diagnostics through medical care and pharmaceutical therapy.

Caring is central to the work we do and defines our responsibility to those we serve:

• We advance leading-edge science and technologies that hold the potential for significant improvements to health and to the practice of health care.
• We value our diversity – that of our products, technologies, markets and people – and believe that diverse perspectives combined with shared goals inspire new ideas and better ways of addressing changing health needs.
• We focus on exceptional performance – a hallmark of Abbott people worldwide – demanding of ourselves and each other because our work impacts people’s lives.
• We strive to earn the trust of those we serve by committing to the highest standards of quality, excellence in personal relationships and behaviour characterised by honesty, fairness and integrity.
• We sustain success – for our business and the people we serve – by staying true to key tenets upon which our company was founded over a century ago: innovative care and a desire to make a meaningful difference in all that we do.

The promise of our company is in the promise that our work holds for health and life.

Our Values

Abbott’s four Values guide and shape our decisions and actions. As a company, Abbott strives to live these Values through the way employees interact within the industry and the community. These Values serve as a blueprint for employee behaviour, defining our responsibility to those we serve.

Pioneering

We lead with solutions that address human needs by pioneering innovative treatments and products, lifesaving medical devices, and new approaches to managing health.  At Abbott, pioneering means leading-edge science and innovative execution.

Achieving

We drive for meaningful results — demanding of ourselves and each other because our work impacts people’s lives.  We’re committed to working together to deliver solutions that are effective and profitable.  Our focus on execution and collaboration ensure that we keep our promises to each other and to those we serve.

Caring

Caring is central to the work that we do to help people live healthier lives.  We have tremendous respect for the lives of everyone touched by our company.  Our respect for people is demonstrated in what we do and how we act.

Enduring

Enduring means both honouring our history and maintaining our commitment to the future.  We will always be here to help keep people healthy.  We keep our promises, acting in accordance with all of our Values.  We grow through our intellectual curiosity and a desire to continuously learn and improve.