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New Features for PIP Awards 2012<br />

The Pride in Performance (PIP) Awards<br />

Programme 2012 will incorporate<br />

several new features.<br />

The first is a shift in focus from<br />

the longstanding PIP values of<br />

Performance, Enterprise, Energy<br />

and The Right People to a greater<br />

concentration on the five key elements<br />

distilled from the past decade of<br />

entries. These are:<br />

1. Reaching new performance heights<br />

to achieve business growth<br />

2. Delivering world-class customer<br />

service<br />

3. Innovating and creating new ideas<br />

to approach your business<br />

Senior Management Changes<br />

Anthony Nightingale is to retire as<br />

Jardine Matheson <strong>Group</strong> Managing<br />

Director at the end of March 2012<br />

after six years in the position. He<br />

will be succeeded by Ben Keswick.<br />

In addition, Adam Keswick will<br />

take up the new role of Deputy<br />

Managing Director.<br />

Anthony<br />

Nightingale<br />

Ben Keswick will also succeed<br />

Mr Nightingale as Managing<br />

Director of listed <strong>Group</strong> companies<br />

Jardine Strategic, Hongkong Land,<br />

Dairy Farm and <strong>Mandarin</strong> <strong>Oriental</strong>.<br />

Adam Keswick will join their boards.<br />

Mr Nightingale will remain a nonexecutive<br />

director of the <strong>Group</strong>’s<br />

4. Working as teams and enhancing<br />

the competencies of our people<br />

5. Overcoming challenges with<br />

tenacity<br />

Another new feature is a<br />

repositioning of the ‘Successful<br />

New Venture’ category to ‘Successful<br />

New Initiative’.<br />

“We feel this broadens and better<br />

reflects the overall aim of this<br />

particular category,” said Jardine<br />

Matheson <strong>Group</strong> Managing Director<br />

Anthony Nightingale. “It can be a<br />

small, new project, a new strategy,<br />

a new venture or any initiative that<br />

main listed companies as well as a<br />

commissioner of Astra.<br />

Ben Keswick<br />

Ben Keswick, who first joined the<br />

<strong>Group</strong> in 1998, has served as <strong>Group</strong><br />

Managing Director of Jardine Cycle<br />

& Carriage for the last four years. In<br />

this position, he has played an active<br />

role in the expansion of the <strong>Group</strong>’s<br />

Southeast Asian interests, which now<br />

account for over 50% of its profits.<br />

For the past four years, Adam Keswick,<br />

who joined the <strong>Group</strong> in 2001, has<br />

served as Chief Executive of Jardine<br />

Pacific and Jardine Motors based<br />

in Hong Kong. During this time, he<br />

you and your team feel proud<br />

of and which has achieved<br />

business success.”<br />

The other four categories of Customer<br />

Focus, Marketing Excellence,<br />

Innovation and Creativity, and<br />

Business Outperformance remain<br />

unchanged, but in recognition of<br />

the increasingly important role of<br />

sustainability in enhancing business<br />

performance, this will also now<br />

be taken into consideration in the<br />

judges’ assessment of PIP entries.<br />

The deadline for entries is<br />

10th January 2012.<br />

has grown the businesses, both in<br />

their traditional markets as well<br />

as exciting new developments in<br />

Southeast Asia and mainland China.<br />

Adam Keswick<br />

“We are grateful for Anthony’s<br />

extensive contribution during his<br />

long career with Jardine Matheson,<br />

and in particular his excellent<br />

leadership as Managing Director,”<br />

said <strong>Group</strong> Chairman Sir Henry<br />

Keswick. “He has overseen a strong<br />

period of growth for the <strong>Group</strong> and<br />

will be stepping down as Managing<br />

Director at a time when all our<br />

businesses are performing well.”<br />

At the Centre 3

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