joined up execution | an impressive mix Our Group now counts 13,000 plus professionals within one single network ready to deploy or configure to any project or location. Because we don’t dissolve new acquisitions, the Group functions as the collaboration of autonomous firms gelling their expertise together on tasks, and working independently on others. We don’t have to worry about thinning of our resources because we operate in a quasi-independent way as a Group and within our own Dar operation. The best route to growth will always be finding ways to add value to the service we provide. Our default position is to look for opportunities of growth or evaluate interesting ones that will help grow our business. By leveraging our project delivery reputation of excellence and our group’s geographical spread we are looking at fast-growing regions where some members of our Group already have a significant presence in China, Mexico and Central and South America where we think there is great work opportunity for us. We are very enthusiastic about the Oil and Gas sector and we see great potential to increase energyrelated work particularly with required environmental solutions as a key driver in work related to oil and gas development. It is a heavily regulated industry that is looking to make some changes and take advantage of the benefits that can be realized through such things as energy storage Spending time with our clients is a critical differentiator we have set up through all our areas bases. To maintain a global presence and to enable growth in a very competitive market, tie-ups are becoming a necessity facilitating and accelerating our Group’s reach and providing it with needed propulsion. interaction and coordination within the various ... An impressive mix technologies, CHP efficiency waste-to-energy plants and , distributed gas-based power plants. There is also a great push to ramp up gas production as a clean and abundant energy source especially for the developing world where growing consumption needs are considerable. We have built an energy sector team ready to support serious investment into oil and gas, and there are big opportunities for growth. We are also optimistic about the Infrastructure and Transportation sectors benefiting from growing interest in private-public partnerships and the global trend to new delivery methods. New environmental revenue and sustainable transportation planning and programming are major market drivers in some of our established areas We give great emphasis to maintain our Dar brand and work ethos. Our particular blend of East and West is an invaluable asset combined with our long track record of delivery excellence, strong sense of entrepreneurship has allowed us to come up with thought provoking but workable solutions based on experience, integrity and ethics in all that we do. Talent can be found throughout our firm, our people are our strength and the stability of our teams gives us a competitive and forward looking advantage. Fortunately our ethos and , values are shared among all members of our Group. Naturally as growth accelerates keeping continuous , Group members becomes more needed and more challenging to manage. We are maintain this through top management involvement at the group level keeping the interaction going and acting as links connecting and strengthening the lattice among our group members. No doubt retaining the brand of each of the Group members is a distinguishing feature and a key factor behind the success of our Group. It has worked for us for over four decades now it is a notion that we plan , to retain and nurture. It is very simple actually, we do it by allowing autonomous management at member level all the while ensuring a uniform strategy overall vision and , common grand objectives that are shared and respected. Our Group is privileged in the sense that our members are spread over the globe and hence projects can be approached in various markets through the collaboration among the group members. Each of the group members is specialized in a certain field and outreaches a specific geographic locations and more than one of these members collaborate on a myriad of services, expertise can be rallied anywhere. 37