APLT GETS TOGETHER

Lunch with the Asia Pacific Leadership Team

From left to right: Mike Fowler, Lauren White, Tim Worme, Mia Wilson, Ben Lister, Stacey Gard, Peter Jensen-Muir, Steve Cummins, Neil Husband, Craig Wilkins, Monika Gietz, Nuno Cabral, Jason Chong, Tim Hickman, Jenoy Joykutty, Sowmya Chaturvedi, Julia Utan, Riette Le Roux and Alan Loleng.

A lunch at the Scoresby site on 11 May commemorated the Asia Pacific Leadership Team flying in for in-person meetings.

The office atmosphere during the week was lively as employees from other Cummins branches across Melbourne also visited and were able to catch up with up with co-workers they haven’t met in a long time. Peter Jensen-Muir kicked-off the gathering by introducing himself and members of the leadership team to the staff present and wrapped up the opening comments by extending his thanks to staff across the region: “I just want to add my thanks to everyone – we had an incredible 2021. As a business we took care of customers, we took care of each other and we had our seventh consecutive record performance in terms of profitability and our best revenue year, which is hard to imagine with all the constraints and challenges. The only way we could do that was through the effort everyone has done here and across our branch network in keeping up with our customer support and caring for each other.

“It was really exciting to get through Q1 because we had so many headwinds. We’ve got labour shortages, we had more than 250+ jobs open, we had cost escalation, we had supply chain disruption. And yet in Q1 we delivered a record revenue across Asia Pacific and a record earnings before interest and tax – so an absolutely fantastic set of results. I want to thank you for that, it’s an incredible achievement to be able to do that quarter after quarter.  Tony Satterthwaite, our vice chairman, calls the Asia Pacific region ‘the rock’ – we commit and

we deliver and I thank you for being the people who help us deliver that. Echoing Ben’s [Lister] comments, there are a lot of people who haven’t worked from home during the pandemic but have actually been out in our warehouses, in our branches, in field service, flying in and out of remote locations and have really taken care of our customers. I think we’ve built loyalty for

Cummins through this period by really taking care of our customers and that’s the support services we are known for. So, I want to say thank you for that, and thank you for an outstanding quarter.

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