Annual Report and Accounts - Hemscott IR
Annual Report and Accounts - Hemscott IR
Annual Report and Accounts - Hemscott IR
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T R A V I S P E R K I N S A N N U A L R E P O R T A N D A C C O U N T S 2 0 1 2<br />
Delivering our Strategy<br />
STRATEGIC<br />
DIMENSION<br />
People<br />
The table below shows how we approach the various<br />
dimensions of our strategy, how we judge progress <strong>and</strong><br />
how our strategy is integrated with our management of<br />
the principal risks faced by the Group, which are set out<br />
on pages 44 <strong>and</strong> 45.<br />
Successful execution of our strategy is dependent<br />
upon maintaining our IT capabilities, purchasing <strong>and</strong><br />
APPROACH<br />
Devolving authority to managers to allow them to compete in the<br />
market, but without weakening our control environment.<br />
Recruiting <strong>and</strong> developing people with attributes that support our core<br />
values.<br />
Operating a performance management system closely aligned to<br />
incentives.<br />
Coaching, guiding <strong>and</strong> holding people to account for their attitude as<br />
much as their performance.<br />
Meeting our corporate social responsibilities in areas such as health <strong>and</strong><br />
safety, environmental <strong>and</strong> community relations.<br />
distributing goods effectively <strong>and</strong> recruiting <strong>and</strong> retaining<br />
the best people. We operate a strong <strong>and</strong> well-resourced<br />
shared service model, which enables branches to<br />
concentrate on delivering excellent customer service,<br />
whilst allowing the central teams to concentrate on<br />
innovation <strong>and</strong> leadership across the Group.<br />
KEY PERFORMANCE<br />
INDICATORS<br />
Colleague retention.<br />
Colleague engagement.<br />
PRINCIPAL<br />
RISKS AND<br />
UNCERTAINTIES<br />
Colleague<br />
recruitment,<br />
retention <strong>and</strong><br />
succession.<br />
OVERVIEW<br />
Sales <strong>and</strong><br />
margin<br />
management<br />
Exploiting economies of scale from growth to improve our proposition,<br />
gain further market share <strong>and</strong> improve operating margins.<br />
Centralising purchasing to increase the benefits of common purchasing.<br />
Improving our supply chain capabilities.<br />
Exp<strong>and</strong>ing our global sourcing activities to support our own br<strong>and</strong><br />
proposition.<br />
Continuously improving our customer <strong>and</strong> supplier proposition.<br />
Harmonising product specifications across our businesses.<br />
Like-for-like revenue growth.<br />
Like-for-like sales outperformance.<br />
Gross margin gains from sourcing<br />
projects, less margin investment in<br />
proposition.<br />
Adjusted operating profit/margin.<br />
Competitive<br />
pressures.<br />
Information<br />
technology failure.<br />
Supplier<br />
dependency <strong>and</strong><br />
direct sourcing<br />
operational<br />
difficulties.<br />
Cost control<br />
<strong>and</strong> asset<br />
management<br />
Exploiting the economies of scale delivered by growth <strong>and</strong> centralisation<br />
to improve our operating margins.<br />
Centralising most support services.<br />
Operating a well resourced <strong>and</strong> innovative property function to improve<br />
asset turn, lower property costs <strong>and</strong> realise surplus assets.<br />
Group overheads to sales ratio.<br />
Colleague productivity ratio.<br />
Adjusted ROCE.<br />
Information<br />
technology failure.<br />
Defined benefit<br />
pension scheme<br />
funding.<br />
Expansion<br />
Using our superior financial performance to exp<strong>and</strong> our branch network<br />
so ensuring we penetrate all catchments in the UK.<br />
Extending our multi-channel capabilities.<br />
Adding additional channels or creating businesses to serve all segments<br />
of the UK building materials market where we can achieve synergies.<br />
Shareholder Value created from<br />
expansion projects (at individual<br />
site <strong>and</strong> whole business level).<br />
Information<br />
technology failure.<br />
Developing <strong>and</strong> owning trade parks <strong>and</strong> multiple br<strong>and</strong> sites.<br />
Financial<br />
Achieving market leading returns on sales <strong>and</strong> returns on capital<br />
employed.<br />
Reducing debt through cash generation.<br />
Increasing adjusted earnings per share.<br />
Optimising our dividend cover.<br />
Lease adjusted net debt to EBITDAR.<br />
Free cash flow.<br />
Adjusted ROCE.<br />
Adjusted EPS.<br />
Adjusted PBT.<br />
Adjusted Dividend cover.<br />
Market conditions.<br />
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