Hella Values
	Values for lasting corporate success

Successful companies are those that internally possess the capability to manage risks and seize opportunities. At Hella, our internal strength is essentially determined by the values that our employees feel committed to, known as the “Hella Values”.

Customer satisfaction and the customer’s willingness to pay for our products and services are the very foundation of our business and economic success. Therefore, customer satisfaction based on our ability to provide affordable products and services is the highest priority for all Hella employees.

1. Act with Entrepreneurial Spirit
We act with an entrepreneurial accountability: we make independent and discriminating assessments of business situations, anticipate measures and implement them, boldly leave conventional paths of action, delegate systematically while being demanding and supportive. Accordingly, we achieve successful and forward-looking results.

2. Be Cooperative
We cooperate in a spirit of partnership and work together efficiently. We are open and trusting, appreciate the opinions of others, resolve conflicts constructively and effectively. We are proactive and personally reliable.

3. Ensure Sustainability
Our work is guided by the principle of sustainability. We consistently implement defined targets and systematically review them to assure long-term realization. We are disciplined, thorough, proactive and forward looking in our thinking and actions. We thereby achieve substantial results and lasting effectiveness; we thus guarantee the quality of all processes and behavior.

4. Provide Performance
We are willing to serve, to provide performance. We work with distinct commitment and enjoy achieving positive results. The basis is clear communication and target agreements as well as the expectations on the part of customers, shareholders and management. Accordingly we achieve best practice results.

5. Be Innovative
We are innovative and change in a positive sense: we see challenges as opportunities. We are open to new things, personally ready to develop ourselves further, keep learning and be part of the change, act on an international level with regard to both scope and content. We keep the tried and tested, but are also prepared to take risks, to enter a new and unconventional territory, and therefore develop customer-relevant innovations for products, processes and structure.

6. Act with Integrity
We always act with integrity. We are reliable and trustworthy, in both professional and interpersonal matters. We work in a friendly and quality-oriented manner; stay loyal to company objectives and values. Our communication is appropriate to the situation, open and genuine. This also includes identifying objective conflicts and finding sustainable solutions for them. This enables us to form stable and trusting relationships with customers and colleagues.

7. Lead by Example
We behave in an exemplary manner: each of us applies the defined corporate values through our own actions and the way we come across to others. We consciously maintain our own example of behavior and further develop our potentials and capabilities. At the same time, we are open to criticism, learn from our mistakes and regularly obtain feedback for ourselves with regard to the corporate values.