CSM is the leading player in its sectors worldwide; the largest supplier of bakery products and a leading player in natural food preservation and green chemicals. Our market position is driven by a powerful ambition: driving our customer's success.

Critical on delivering on that ambition is being innovative, efficient and service oriented at the same time. CSM has the size, knowledge and (financial) resources, required to invest in innovation and services at one hand, and driving efficiencies at the other hand. But even more crucial is the way we approach our customers.

CSM is a truly customer centered company, and as such organized after our customer needs. We help local customers to become more successful by capitalizing on global capacities and local expertise to fulfill their own specific needs. But at the same time we utilize our global presence, to serve international customers around the world and to benefit from global sourcing and procurement.

CSM's values and attitudes have shaped the company through the years and are the key to the company's long-standing success. Everything we do, is motivated by passion, executed in partnership and driven by performance. Like innovation being a function of improving quality of life. And as reflected in our tradition of delivering excellence. But most of all, it is clearly exposed in our commitment to drive our customers' success. That's how we create value for all our stakeholders.

CSM has 9,700 employees, serving customers in 28 countries all over the world, generating annual sales of nearly € 3 billion. CSM is listed on NYSE Euronext Amsterdam.

People are at the core of our company. Our colleagues talk business with over 150,000 customers every year: many of these contacts are based on long-standing relationships where we bring value by unleashing the power of the 8,450 colleagues in the CSM organization. Whether our customer is looking for an existing product or a new solution together we will find the best way for them. That's what we call a real partnership.

We understand that doing business well means showing respect, appreciation and a cooperative spirit to everyone we work with. As a company, our purpose is to improve the quality and sustainability of life.  We do this by helping to create a society where people can make a conscious choice for safe, healthy, nutritious and delicious food, and we are passionate about providing the very best products, technology and services to our customers to help them succeed.

Driving our customers' success is at the heart of what we do at CSM. Our employees play an essential role in this. By creating a professional and open organization, we make it possible for CSM people to better utilize their own creativity and knowledge. And that's how we add value to our customers and other stakeholders. Performance with an edge!