Group chief executive report to shareholders Brian Bruce, group chief executive Murray & Roberts and its associates employ more than 30 000 people directly and a further 20 000 employees of our many business partners work daily on more than 150 active worksites throughout Southern Africa, Middle East, Australasia, Southeast Asia and North America. This collective capacity is focused on selected markets in the global construction economy and has been assembled through Rebuilding Murray & Roberts over the six years since July 2000. Murray & Roberts 2010 is our short term strategy focused on the delivery of sustainable value from increased market activity in all the Group’s regional and sectoral markets, including the impact of increased domestic activity associated with the 2010 Soccer World Cup, and the integration of our new business acquisitions into the Group’s strategic value proposition. Globalising Murray & Roberts is an ongoing strategic initiative that benchmarks the future performance potential of the Group against best-in-class characteristics drawn from the global engineering & construction sector. Our commitment to sustainable earnings growth and value creation is non-negotiable.