Social Responsibility and Sustainability Report 2019 Social Responsibility and Sustainability Report 2019
Social Responsibility and Sustainability Report 2019 Social Responsibility and Sustainability Report 2019 Dear Friends: PRISA has moved in a positive direction over the course of fiscal year 2018, in terms of both economic-financial and operational parameters as well as with regard to the strategic reorientation and refocusing of our businesses, as our Chief Executive Officer explains below. The year has also seen improvements to our corporate governance, and here, first of all, I would like to pay tribute to the per- son who served as our Chairman over the past year, Manuel Polanco. Our Board of Directors and its committees have been extremely active over the year, and we have been diligent in adopting their decisions. We believe the results have been positive, as you too will see in the wide-ranging information made public by the Company on this matter. We still have some way to go and we will forge ahead with the same determination as before. Our goal is to achieve the very best governance standards. We don’t do this merely to formally comply with regulatory frameworks or recommendations of best practice – though laudable in itself – but because of our conviction that we can thereby ensure that the Board best fulfills its central mission: to enable PRISA to pursue an ambitious business project, one that has great future potential and is that sustainable over time; and one that can attract, motivate and retain the talent necessary to make this a reality. Javier Monzón PRISA has enormous potential to generate value for its shareholders, for its professionals Chairman of PRISA and for all those we serve with our activity: educational communities, students and their «Our goal is to achieve families, readers and listeners, promoters and protagonists of cultural and social change the very best governance and, more broadly speaking, the general public and the societies where we operate.
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