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INTRODUCTION

The company has four strategies that guide its progress towards achieving the corporative objective of providing a satisfactory return to shareholders.

One of these is to “ensure sustainability through responsible long-term management”.

The company takes the view that it will only be sustainable as a corporation if, in addition to continued financial success, it adequately addresses a range of other issues which are both significant in their own right and which feed back into financial outcomes. These include:

  • the decent and principled treatment of a range of stakeholders, such as employees (including encouragement of workplace diversity), customers, suppliers and the broader community;
  • maintenance of high standards of ethical conduct;
  • provision of a safe and healthy working environment;
  • respect for the physical environment in which the company’s businesses operate;
  • ensuring that internal knowledge of processes, expertise, products, customers and competitors is captured and shared within the group; and
  • making a direct contribution to the community above and beyond the economic benefits flowing from well-run business activities.