Giving Back – Shining a Light on ZB Volunteering in 2023

Zimmer Biomet team members continued to make a positive impact in local communities across our region, bringing our Guiding Principle of Giving Back to life throughout 2023.

Team members across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa hosted fundraisers, collection drives, clean-up days and so much more to uplift and give back – here are just a few examples of how ZB people made a difference this year...

Making a Difference in Poland

One day each month, team members in Poland prepare sandwiches at the office for people in need. This monthly initiative has continued for two years, with over 10,000 sandwiches made to date.

The team also donated pre-loved clothes and accessories to raise funds for the Polish Humanitarian Action and made a significant environmental impact by planting more than 180 trees along the bank of the Vistula River.

Giving Back in France

Our team demonstrated commitment to making a difference in the community, when, in March, they collected and donated over 20 kilograms of essential hygiene products to support vulnerable women. In April, the Montpellier team partnered with Ocean Protection to clean up the beach. After the devastating earthquakes in Morocco in September, team members collected essential goods for the affected. And in November, they collaborated with a local organization to create Christmas boxes for people in need.

Donations for Orphaned Children across MENAT

With their “Bridging Hearts and Building Hope” campaign, team members collected donations for orphaned children across the Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey.

Community Support and Environmental Stewardship in the Netherlands

Our team members have been supporting their local communities by donating goods to Vincentius and hosting clean-ups days around our site in Hazeldonk every month. ?

Helping Those in Need in Swindon, UK

In May, our UK team completed a 100,000km challenge to raise money for Prospect Hospice. In May and July, the team returned for the annual Remembrance Garden spruce-up, and in August, they prepared and distributed 100 snack bags to people experiencing food poverty in the Swindon area. The team also took part in the World's Biggest Coffee Morning; a bake-off to raise funds for?Macmillan Cancer Support, and raised money for Breast Cancer Now and various charities.

Impacting Education and Community in Ireland

Team members in Ireland delivered Science, Technology Engineering, Arts and Mathematics courses to more than 500 students across 15 different local schools this year. In October, the Irish team hosted a bake sale to raise funds for the Irish Cancer society and hosted a leg wax event, collecting funds for Claddagh Watch & Limerick suicide watch.

Community Engagement in Switzerland

EMEA’s Legal Team in Zug, Switzerland, spent time at a Refugee Center that accommodates 70 individuals from war-torn regions. The team took over daily cooking responsibilities, developing recipes and producing meals.

More than 50 team members met up for World Clean-up Day in September and attended to the area surrounding our manufacturing site in Winterthur.

Packages of Hope in Germany

Team members from Freiburg joined a local non-profit organization to help prepare “packages of hope” with essential items and logistics to assist people in Ukraine.

Running for a Cause

The ZBEdge EMEA Team showed their dedication to physical fitness and charitable giving by running a total distance of 5,259 km and raising €10,520 for Save the Children. Team members from Breda, the Netherlands, joined the Singelloop run in October, raising money for charity, and team members across EMEA united to raise funds via the annual Global Wings for Life run – which donates funds to spinal cord research, aligning our mission of alleviating pain and improving the quality of life for people worldwide.

In 2023, it’s clear that our team members’ commitment to "Giving Back" remains unwavering! Zimmer Biomet team members around the globe collectively volunteered over 6,500 hours and, in partnership with the Zimmer Biomet Foundation, donated over US$795,000 to more than 600 charities worldwide.

Cheers to all of our volunteers! I'd like to give a special thank you to an important group of people: we have an initiative in the region where team members volunteer to be ZB Community Engagement Champions. In this role, they seek out and help implement activities - so I want to thank all of our Champions for making so many of these activities possible, and to Alessandra Galli for leading this initiative

Together, we continue to shine a bright light on the power of community and compassion, making the world a better place for all.

Cheers,

Wilfred.

Every day, our mission to alleviate pain and improve the quality of life for people around the world moves us forward. Our team members believe in it, our customers count on it and patients depend on it. Our mission is at the heart of everything we do, and with it comes great responsibility to strong corporate citizenship, ensuring we drive positive results – for people and the planet.

You can find out more about how Zimmer Biomet is Giving Back globally in our annual sustainability reports.