We engage with a wide range of stakeholders, both at Group and subsidiary level. Understanding how these relationships work is crucial to ensuring our Group’s continued sustainability and ensuring we are able to adapt and make businesses fit for the future.
As an employer committed to providing the right environment in which to work, we insist that people connected with the Group can work safely, are trained correctly, behave in the right way, and comply with all local legal and regulatory requirements, thus ensuring the sustainability of the business.
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Our decentralised autonomous model places our companies close to their end markets and under the management of their own board of directors, providing agility, customer intimacy and entrepreneurial activities. Our companies are able to respond rapidly to opportunities and to changes in their competitive environment and are responsible for the delivery our organic growth and the success of our Group strategy.
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Our operating companies engage with their customers on an individual business unit basis. Most businesses are accredited with number of ISO quality standards to provide comfort to our customers that we are able to deliver solutions which meet their exacting requirements.
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We actively engage with our suppliers working closely to ensure that they provide the right quality of raw materials and services to support our commitment to quality products and to maintaining fair cashflow requirements.
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We engage with the Government and our peers by participating in industry bodies and meetings to discuss emerging policy, regulation, innovation and threats in relation to infrastructure markets.
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Subsidiaries engage with their local communities on a business-by-business basis supporting local charities as well as engaging with local authorities when seeking to develop their businesses.
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Our Chairman and Executive Directors engage with our investors through a series of meetings, site visits and presentations, ensuring that they set out our strategy for delivering long-term sustainable profit growth. Investors also feedback their views on the major corporate governance issues of the day.
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