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INSURANCE OF DIRECTORS DIVERSITY

The Group has arranged directors’ and officers’ NZPM acknowledges that our future success is
liability insurance that covers directors and critically linked to our people. The company will
executives for personal liability as permitted by continue to value and grow diversity, ensuring its
the Companies Act 1993. The Group has provided leadership, management and employees both
an indemnity to each of the directors, general reflect and are supportive of the diverse range of
managers and the Group CFO. individuals and groups within our society.

With the increasingly competitive landscape
ENVIRONMENT for talent, we have set a clear expectation
throughout the business to attract a range of
NZPM is committed to being an environmentally candidates that include skilled people with the
responsible corporate citizen and has a culture of right competencies and fit with our values.
continuous improvement to reduce our impact on
the environment. NZPM is focused on influencing
sustainable practices wherever we can in Over the coming year we will focus on increasing
the NZ commercial and residential plumbing brand awareness for attraction specifically in
sectors. We are continually looking to improve relation to women and youth in the industry.
our environmental performance within our own
business and in partnership with suppliers The following tables set out the number of men
and customers. and women at different levels of NZPM as at
31 March 2017.
Each Plumbing World branch has a recycling
programme which is made available to our FEMALE MALE
customers for packaging materials, waste PVC
products and brass tailings. We also work with our COUNT % COUNT %
customers and suppliers to ensure that Directors 1 13% 6 86%
we are able to meet their environmental Leadership
policy objectives. Team 1 3 38% 5 63%
Overall
The majority of the Group’s vehicle fleet is less Workforce 165 37% 279 63%
than four years old with each newer vehicle 1 The Leadership Team consists of direct reports to the board and
generally having lower emissions than the older the senior leadership team of Plumbing World.
vehicle. Over the past 24 months, a programme
to progressively upgrade our forklift fleet has
replaced approximately one-half of our forklifts NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES/YEARS
with newer lower emission units. OF AGE

Plumbing World has a policy of installing low 140
energy LED lighting in all new and upgraded 120
branches to support energy saving initiatives 100
and extend the product life of lighting systems. 80
Plumbing World has a nationwide waste care 60
supplier to support branch recycling objectives. 40
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