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participating companies. The picture is pretty much the same, both for
industrial companies, commercial, transport, or service companies.
Generally, it can be observed that a big part of larger Danish companies
indicate awareness of the Global Goals. On the other hand, less than 50 per
cent of larger Danish companies indicate concrete actions. It cannot be
concluded against this background, how the situation is among medium and
small Danish companies. The ambition of taking a higher social responsibility
is among top scorers together with the ambition of ensuring a higher degree
of equal pay.
Among the ‘low scorers’ is the explanations that the purpose of company
activities on Global Goal is to attract investors, together with that companies
focus their activities on ‘reducing food waste’ and ‘cheap medicine in
developing countries’. But both ‘reduce food waste’ and ‘cheap medicine in
developing countries’ can be industry specific and dependent on the number
of companies working within those industries. Finally, only a smaller share of
companies has answered that they are prioritizing income growth by income
groups.
Some of the survey’s results are presented in the figures below.

Enterprises that focus on the global Global goals by target, inclusion and
goals, by industry, share gender equality
Pct. Do it at the moment Have plans on doing it withing 2-3 years More training places (4.4)
80
70 Reduce youth unemployment (8.6)
60 Equal access to all levels of education
(4.5)
50
Reduce discrimination against women
40 and girls (5.1)
More women in managerial positions
30 (5.5)
20
Higher degree of equal pay (8.5)
10
Income growth for low income groups
0 (10.1)
Manufacturing and Trade and transport Business services Other industries Total 0 10 20 30 40 50 60
utility services Pct.
Enterprise actions on the global goals Enterprise explanations for focus on the
by general actions global goals
Based on management decisions Assume higher social responsibility
Part of corporate strategies Work on SDG relevant areas
Concrete decisions have taken Can attract business partners
place
Can attract investors
Has set its own performace goals
Can attract employees
Is reflected in the annual or CSR
report
Focus of efficiency
Applies 'due dilligence' processes
Domestic marketing advantage
Has description on the web site
Marketing advantage abroad
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
Pct. Pct.

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