Governance

“We will be recognised as a company which lives its values in all our activities and that demonstrates an ethical approach across all areas of corporate responsibility”.

We believe that, by being more sustainable, we can deliver real shareholder value, with more responsible business practices leading to greater innovation and efficiency and differentiating us from our competitors.

External benchmarking has given us a transparent, external verification of our commitment to sustainability and has given us guidelines to improve our performance. This is particularly important as the market for socially responsible investments increases.

Details of our approach to Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility are given in the 2005 Annual Report and Accounts here.

Link here to Ethics and Business Integrity Policy

BITC and FTSE4Good Index

The BITC Index gives us a chance to benchmark our performance on corporate responsibility and sustainability issues.

To learn more about Business in the Community click here for the BITC website.

Our 2005 index results can be seen through the links below:
• 2005 CR Index
• 2005 Environmental Index

We believe being part of the FTSE4Good Index assists us in demonstrating our sustainability credentials because the Index has been designed to measure the performance of companies that meet globally recognised corporate responsibility standards