Balfour Beatty - Corporate Responsibility Summary Report 2007

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INVESTORS
We seek to provide shareholders with improving returns and the
information they need to make well informed investment decisions.
We run an active shareholder engagement programme involving regular
roadshows and one-to-one meetings. During 2007, senior executives held
over 100 meetings with shareholders, representing, in aggregate,
approximately 60% of the ordinary issued share capital. All financial
presentations are webcast in order to ensure that they are accessible to all
shareholder groups and other interested parties.
Our registrars, Capita, have a facility which enables Balfour Beatty
shareholders to access details of their shareholding over the internet, subject
to complying with an identity check.
Chairman and Chief Executive's
statement
We have continued to evaluate,
critically, all our governance and
management systems to ensure their
suitability for purpose. Policies have
been renewed and, where necessary,
restated. We are updating the terms
of reference of the Business Practices
Committee so that it can monitor,
evaluate and guide our non-financial
performance more effectively.
Read the full Chairman and Chief
Executive's statement
For every shareholder that registers to receive shareholder communications
electronically, Balfour Beatty will donate £1 to Climate Care.
Climate Care is a not-for-profit organisation that funds global sustainable
energy and forest restoration projects, which reduce greenhouse gases.
Examples of projects are:
financing renewable energy cooking stoves in schools in India;
making clean, efficient stoves available to some of the poorest communities
in Honduras;
restoring rainforests in Uganda; and
installing energy-efficient lamps in low-income households in South Africa
and St Lucia.
As well as cutting greenhouse gases, Climate Care's projects also help to
improve people's standard of living and to protect wildlife habitats. For more
information on the organisation, visit www.climatecare.org.
We are a long-term supporter of the charity ShareGift which offers a solution
to those shareholders who have small holdings of shares which are otherwise
uneconomic to sell, by accepting these shares as donations, selling them
when possible and using the proceeds to make donations to a wide range of
other UK charities. We regularly promote this free service to shareholders.
In relation to fraud prevention, we have also provided shareholders with clear
guidance regarding the measures that they should take, both to protect
themselves from unauthorised firms offering unsolicited "investment advice"
who have targeted UK investors, and from the growing risk of identity fraud.
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