Dechra Pharmaceuticals : 20 September 2021 Annual Report 2021 (online version)

I would like to thank all our employees for their hard work, dedication and innovation throughout the year. Our employees have responded positively during the pandemic and have adapted to new ways of working demonstrating the agility that is a core part of our culture.

The measures that were put in place to enable all front line employees to operate safely in our 2020 financial year have remained; this has allowed all manufacturing and logistic sites and laboratories to remain open and continue to function effectively. All employees who can work from home have done so successfully. Our employees are now slowly returning, where it is safe to do so, to our offices, initially on a cohort basis, and in the field.

We have paid all of our site based employees (majority of our lowest paid staff work in manufacturing or logistics) a bonus to reward their commitment during the COVID-19 period. In March 2021, we were pleased to be accredited as a Living Wage Employer in the UK.

We have also benchmarked individuals within all levels of the Group, and have implemented above inflationary salary increases to numerous employees, to continue to provide a competitive and fair level of remuneration throughout the whole organisation, in line with our commitment to the remuneration policies we adopted in 2019.