Murray & Roberts - Robust - September 2009

SEPTEMBER 2009

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Dear Readers

The reporting season is upon us again,its timing as regular as clockwork but its outcome more variable, like the weather...

Brian Bruce

COVER STORY

Constant EVOLUTION

Murray & Roberts is adapting to a new global business environment by building more critical mass in its key sectoral and geographic markets.

New Appointments

Trevor Fowler joins Murray & Roberts in September 2009 to succeed Keith Smith as executive chairman of the construction SADC cluster.

Trevor was previously chief operating officer in the Presidency. He will have the additional responsibility of expanding the Group’s engagement into the Rest of Africa and will lead a restructure of the construction cluster to deal with South African fixed investment and construction market growth after 2010 and the economic crisis that is projected to extend well into the 2020s.

CASE STUDY

Case study

n 1999, Murray & Roberts Cementation entered into a landmark contract with Aquarius Platinum to toll mine the shallow platinum ore body at Kroondal. A revised contract to the value of about R1,5 billion annually was negotiated in 2008.

PROJECTS

Projects

Gautrain

Murray & Roberts plays a lead role in the Gautrain Rapid Rail Link project, which has been underway for three years following commercial close in September 2006.