Brambles Industries Limited (BXB) Share Price

BXB Company Profile

 Brambles is a leading global provider of support services, operating in approximately 45 countries across six continents and employing over 12,000 people.

The group's businesses are CHEP and Recall.

Brambles' global headquarters are in Sydney, Australia. Headquarters of the businesses are in Orlando, USA (CHEP Americas), Weybridge, England (CHEP Europe) and Atlanta, USA (Recall).

It has a primary listing on the Australian Stock Exchange and a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange.

Brambles has total assets of US$5.0 billion as at 31 December 2006

Overview

CHEP is the world leader in pallet and container pooling services, serving many of the world's largest companies. CHEP issues, collects, repairs/washes and reissues more than 280 million pallets and containers from a global network of 440 service centres in 44 countries, helping manufacturers and growers transport their products to distributors and retailers.

With an unmatched combination of size, scale, superior technology and global reach, CHEP delivers pallet and container supply chain logistics and efficiencies for customers primarily in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), produce, meat, home improvement, beverage, raw materials and automotive industries.

CHEP's services are based on a unique combination of quality products, sophisticated control systems and a well-managed international service centre infrastructure, which enables its customers to reduce the need for capital expenditure and concentrate their day-to-day operations on their core business competencies.

CHEP partners with customers to develop pooling solutions that ensure reduced product damage, offer enhanced delivery efficiencies, eliminate waste and cut supply chain costs, adding exceptional value for its customers. With more than 300,000 customers around the globe, including Procter & Gamble, SYSCO, Carrefour, Kellogg's, Woolworths, Kraft, Nestle, Lion Nathan, The Home Depot, Tesco, Unilever, Hewlett Packard, Ford and GM, CHEP is known for Handling The World's Most Important Products. Everyday.

CHEP is committed to reducing environmental waste and increasing customer savings through proper stewardship of all natural resources. The company's pallet and container pooling system eliminates more than six million tonnes of wood packaging from landfills by recycling wood and nails so that no scrap materials from its pallets are sent to landfills. Components that cannot be repaired or reused are recycled for fuel, mulch and animal bedding.

More than 2026.2 cubic metres (2,650 cubic yards) of wood are recycled each year at CHEP service centres - enough to cover 10 soccer/football fields 2.5 centimetres (1 inch) deep.

CHEP employs more than 7,700 employees in 44 countries and benefits from more than four decades of industry experience internationally.

Overview

Recall is a global leader in document and information management and operates at nearly 300 facilities locations in 22 countries across five continents. Recall's services help companies effectively manage and use information throughout its lifecycle. Its services cover the management of physical and digital documents from creation and processing to secure destruction.

At all times during the cycle, Recall makes the secure storage, access, retrieval and tracking of important information efficient and cost effective by providing complete security and reliable as well as convenient access. Recall's experience enables it to add significant value in specialised applications. Recall is uniquely positioned to assist customers with all possible information needs, now and well into the future.

Recall's services are provided to a diverse customer base, with the primary focus on transaction-intensive market segments such as banking and finance, insurance, legal, health care, retailing and government. Customers can rely on Recall's knowledge of regulatory requirements, archival expertise and information management skills to provide the optimum solution for workflow processes in every industry.

Recall operates through an expanding global network of off-site document management centres, computer back-up data protection centres and secure destruction centres. In addition, Recall operates data centres for digital documents that can be accessed and processed through secure Internet connections.

Recall has grown remarkably, mostly through acquisitions in the USA, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. During 2002 Recall established in Sweden, Finland and India as well as extending its reach in the USA, UK and Australia.

Recall's document and information management business is composed of three complementary segments: Document Management Solutions (DMS), Data Protection Services (DPS) and Secure Destruction Services (SDS).

Mission

To be the world's leading provider of innovative business solutions in support services To use our outsourcing expertise to add exceptional value in the eyes of our customers To create superior shareholder value through our people and their enterprising spirit

Shared Values

All things begin with the customer We are committed to diversity, people and teamwork We have a passion for success Always acting with integrity and respect for the community and the environment.

HISTORY

  2005      Brambles announced in November that it will be taking steps to streamline the Brambles Group and unify its dual-listed companies structure by the creation of a new single holding company focused on its premium growth businesses, CHEP and Recall. Cleanaway, Brambles Industrial Services and the Regional Businesses will be divested.Brambles Industrial Services Northern Hemisphere steel mill services operations sold. 2001      GKN plc of the UK demerged its support services activities, which were then listed on the London Stock Exchange as Brambles Industries plc (BIP). BIP and Brambles Industries Limited of Australia were combined in a dual listed companies' structure. 1999      Records management established as an international business under a global brand, Recall. Short Bros acquired in the UK. 1998      Cleanaway acquired SKP in Germany. 1990      CHEP US launched as a 50:50 joint venture between Brambles and GKN plc. 1980      Redland Purle Ltd, UK purchased as a joint venture between Brambles and GKN plc and renamed Cleanaway Limited. 1979      Brambles waste management division renamed Cleanaway. 1975      CHEP's international expansion began in the UK by means of a joint venture between Brambles and GKN plc. 1958      Commonwealth Handling Equipment Pool (CHEP) purchased by Brambles from the Australian Government. 1954      Brambles Industries Limited first listed in Australia. 1925      Private company WE Bramble and Sons Ltd first formed. 1875      Walter Brambles began his career in Newcastle, north of Sydney, Australia.