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HILLS
NEWS
Shareholder & Management
Conference – Sorrento
T
he Shareholder and Management Conference and Group Annual
General Meeting were held in the town of Sorrento on the sunny coast
of south-west Italy in early October. As always the Conference, now held
every two years, provided three generations of shareholders with the
important opportunity to meet any new members of the Senior
Management team as well as renew old friendships with the rest of the
family and longer serving management.
Those present also saw Alan Pardoe, the Group Managing Director, report on
the Group’s financial performance for 2005/6 as well as the performance
targets, issues and assumptions for the next five years. Alan also outlined
the Group’s practical approach to the ownership and management changes
necessary over the next few years as key directors and shareholders retire.
This approach includes the formation, in May next year, of a new holdings
company and the creation of a new operating board to manage the trading
businesses of the Group, as
well as the appointment of a
new Group Chief Executive by
early 2008.
More details of these changes
will obviously be covered in
future issues of intouch.
Alan Pardoe, Group MD, giving his
presentation at the Conference
Link to
Shorncote
Shorncote Quarry gets pride of
place in a new Quarry Products
Association (QPA) publication
designed to help members raise
awareness of the industry’s
vital role.
A photograph of the site dominates
the front cover, and the Company
also features in a case study which
details the part played by the
quarry in providing construction
materials for Swindon’s Great
Western Hospital, which serves
300,000 people. It also points out
that Shorncote creates a total of
40 rural jobs, funds valuable
archaeological discoveries and
will ultimately add to the leisure
facilities in the Cotswold Water
Park.
The QPA’s “Make The Link”
initiative underpins all the
industry’s campaigns, aiming to
demonstrate to stakeholders at all
levels that their own most basic
needs rely heavily on quarrying.
Elements of the publication are
downloadable from our website
www.hills-group.co.uk
Kindly modelled by Jon
Bucksey, Management
Accountant
Personalised Sponsored Rugby Shirts
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L 44”-46” £25
XL 46”-48” £25
XXL 48”-50” £25
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Contents
Comment 2
Hills News 3
Hills Homes 4-5
Aggregates & Haulage 6-7
Recycling & Waste Management 8-9
Waste Warriors 10-11
People News 12
intouch 3