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CORPORATE PERFORMANCE
As a leading NZX investment entity we have a responsibility to provide timely, balanced and readily available information to the investment community, customers, our people and regulators.
We engage with our stakeholders on a regular basis, through a variety of communication channels, including formal reporting obligations, regular market announcements and brie ngs, and more directly through open days, road shows, meetings and other dedicated information channels.
We are an active industry participant and work to advance the interests of all our stakeholders through membership of various groups, the most
PEOPLE & COMMUNITY
Goodman has a diversity strategy that aims
to create an inclusive and transparent work environment that is free of harassment and discrimination, where all employees contribute
to its commercial objectives. We undertake professional development programmes to extend the skills of our staff and promote corporate values that encapsulate our business ethos.
Engaging and supporting the communities in which we operate is also important to Goodman.
The Goodman Foundation aims to improve the quality of life, standard of living and health of people in the communities where it operates.
The focus is on social change and improving the lives of those less privileged. This is achieved by providing nancial support, including cash grants and ongoing funding for projects and programmes that meet the objectives of the foundation.
notable being NZ Business and Parliament Trust, The Property Council of New Zealand and the Green Building Council of New Zealand.
Our participation in the Carbon Disclosure Project is ongoing having begun in 2009.
It signals a commitment to improving the environmental performance of our business and a willingness to critically assess our own performance.
GMT achieved a climate score of B- in 2016. You can nd out more about the rating process and the Carbon Disclosure Project at www.CDP.net
Through the Goodman Foundation and work place gifting we have provided around $300,000 of sponsorship and donations over the last
12 months. We have also contributed to local organisations through volunteering and in-kind programmes.
Our partnerships with KiwiHarvest, The Rising Foundation, Duffy Books in Homes, The Hearing House and the Second Nature Charitable Trust, are continuing to make a meaningful difference to our communities.
Other charities including, ADC New Zealand, the Cerebral Palsy Society of NZ, Diabetes
New Zealand, the Multiple Sclerosis Society of New Zealand and Ronald MacDonald House are also recipients of our nancial support.
Chief Executive Of cer, John Dakin, provides regular updates to stakeholders
KiwiHarvest staff at the new headquarters located within Central Park Corporate Centre, Greenlane
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