Murray & Roberts - Robust - September 2008

SEPTEMBER 2008

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message from the ce

Dear Readers

Somehow, the Olympics in Beijing this year have seemed out of reach. Is it because we are not doing so well as a nation? I am in Perth as I write this, attending the Clough board meetings and the mood here...

Brian Bruce

COVER STORY

BEST OF both worlds

With 50% of its business generated in resource and infrastructure-based global markets, Murray & Roberts has become an attractive long-term investment for foreign shareholders seeking exposure to both the global commodity and South African infrastructure booms...

Excellence

Breaking records

The Kalgoorlie based mining contractor completed work on the largest raise bored hole ever drilled in Australia and ranked seventh largest in the world by volume excavated.

MAJOR PROJECTS

Major Projects

Gautrain

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

PEOPLE

David Barber joins Murray & Roberts

Murray & Roberts appointed David Barber (55) as an independent nonexecutive director and member of its audit committee on 27 June 2008. David is global chief financial officer of AngloCoal, a division of Anglo American plc Group and prior to this was chief financial officer for Anglo American Corporation of South Africa.