NEWS 55 - Grimaldi Group

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Xxxxxxxxxxx Editorial Contents 3 Top 20 business reputation 4 New MoS route Barcelona linked to Tangier The Civitavecchia-Catania- Malta service resumes 6 Finnlines takes delivery of “Finnbreeze” and “Finnsea” Hull and Immingham connected to the Euromed 8 “Grande Costa d’Avorio” further enhances the MEX service Ceremony on board “Grande Togo” 9 Ferry Shipping Conference 2011 10 Acl recertified SAL gets ISO 9001 certification 11 New offices in Antwerp Piazza di Siena horse show 12 Grimaldi Lines and Redtortuga Transport Logistics Fair of Munich 13 News 14 Agent List 15 Schedules - Mediterranean Short Sea Network - Finnlines (Baltic & North Sea) - Atlantic Network - ACL - Euro Med Network G r imaldi NE WS Direttore Responsabile / Editor in Chief Luciano Bosso Progetto grafico /Graphic design Marco Di Lorenzo Pubblicazione trimestrale Quarterly publication Reg. Trib. Napoli n. 5150 del 26/9/2000 Stampa / Print: ROSSI srl - Nola (Napoli) Circulation 35,000 copies Printed on 18 July 2011 GRIMALDI GROUP Via Marchese Campodisola, 13 2 GNE WS80133 NAPOLI (Italy) Grimaldi News can be seen on line on www.grimaldi.napoli.it Principles at the heart of a successful business In a business like ours, reputation is everything. A good name is a testament to honesty and integrity over time, and to a relationship with existing customers that is a guarantee of quality and probity for customers to come. By the same token, a poor reputation, justified or not, can scare away potential clients, and can be devilishly hard to shake off. I am proud to say that we at Grimaldi have always been proud of the way we conduct our business. Of course we might be considered somewhat partial on the subject, so it is gratifying to find that our view is shared by respected and impeccably independent observers. Last April, the Reputation Institute in partnership with the Italian market research institute Doxa released a report on corporate reputations in Italy. Entitled Reputation Pulse 2011, it asked some 3,000 interviewees to grade the top 100 Italian companies according to such emotional factors as trust, admiration and positive or negative perceptions, and more “rational” indicators such as innovation, work environment, ethics, leadership and corporate social responsibility. We are pleased to say that Grimaldi scored 74.4 points out of 100, placing us 13th out of those leading companies in the reputation rankings. This achievement is all the more remarkable given that we do not have the visibility of a business that is publicly listed or that deals primarily with consumers. Perhaps even more gratifying, we were judged the fifth most ethical company of the 100 considered in the poll. A good reputation is built in many ways, as this study makes clear. It is about treating your employees as well as your clients. It is about taking responsibility for the environment in which you work, and in our case that means the sea and the air. And it is about behaving with responsibility in the market in which you operate. This last is all the more difficult when competition is tough, and given the scale and depth of the continuing economic crisis, there can rarely have been a tougher market than the one we are dealing with today. Everyone is under pressure, from the companies we are competing with on the Motorways of the Sea to the banks that finance them. In such conditions, it might be understandable that some shipping companies continue to run old ships at often uncompetitive rates in order to maintain cash flow. It might also be comprehensible that banks defer tough decisions – to withdraw support, for instance, from companies that are not viable over the long term – in the hope that with time the wider pressure on their balance sheets will ease and they will be able to deal with problems in a measured way. For the market as a whole, however, such an approach becomes a cross that everyone must bear. These are, I should reiterate, abnormal times in which we are all having to respond quickly and under the pressure of changing circumstances. But the market will only recover its equilibrium once reason returns, and that means obsolete tonnage drifting out of the market, and banks withdrawing their support from perennially loss-making companies as they move to clean up their balance sheets. Once that happens, Schumpeter’s theory of creative destruction, in which those companies that innovate and invest survive and prosper and those that do not go to the wall, will come into play once again to the benefit of all. In the meantime, we intend to continue on a path that has not only yielded strong financial results but an iron-clad reputation for integrity.
Achievements Grimaldi in the top 20 for the best corporate business reputation The Group is thirteenth nationwide and fifth among the most ethical Italian companies In a recent survey, the Grimaldi Group has been placed thirteenth in the list of Italian companies with the best reputation, and in fifth place for the most ethical companies in Italy. The Group reached the score of 74.4 out of 100 in the “Reputation Pulse 2011” survey, the most important national research on the corporate reputation and factors influencing it. Made by the Reputation Institute, the leading worldwide Group on issues like corporate branding and reputation management, the research was conducted in cooperation with Doxa (the Italian institute leader in market research), among the top 100 companies listed in the 2010 annual report of Mediobanca about the “Italian leading companies”. Admiration, esteem, positive or negative perceptions and trust, are the basic elements of the online survey completed by more than 3,000 participants between January and March 2011. These factors related to emotional feeling were joined by seven rational elements relating to: products and services, innovation, working environment, ethics, corporate social responsibility, leadership and perception of performance. “We are extremely gratified by the outcome of this research”, said Gianluca and Emanuele Grimaldi, Managing Directors of the Grimaldi Group. “This is the result of a corporate culture that has always paid great attention to the enhancement of human resources and to issues of social responsibility”. The companies ranked in the top three were Ferrero with a score of 81.7, followed by BMW (81.2) and Barilla (81.1). GNE WS 3
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