Barclays PLC 2003 Annual Report
Barclays PLC 2003 Bar Head Office cla Barclays PLC 54 Lombard Street ys PL London EC3P 3AH Tel 020 7699 5000 C Annual R www.barclays.com eport 2003 Annual Report a 9901387 a Barclays at a glance Barclays is an international financial services group engaged primarily in banking, investment banking and asset management. In terms of market capitalisation, Barclays is one of the largest financial services groups in the UK. The Group also operates in many other countries and is a leading provider of global services to multinational corporations and financial institutions in the world’s main financial centres. Worldwide, Barclays has 2,916 branches and employs 74,800 staff. Our mission To be an innovative, customer-focused Group that delivers superb products and services, ensures excellent careers for our people and contributes positively to the communities in which we live and work. Our primary goal To deliver top quartile total shareholder return (TSR) versus our peers, consistently over time. Our beliefs Our operating philosophy is ‘managing for value’. The strategies we follow and the actions we take are aligned to value creation for all stakeholders. This document contains certain forward-looking statements within the current facts. Forward-looking statements often use words such as ‘anticipate’, meaning of section 21E of the US Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as ‘target’, ‘expect’, ‘estimate’, ‘intend’, ‘plan’, ‘goal’, ‘believe’, or other words of amended and section 27A of the US Securities Act of 1933, as amended, with similar meaning. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risk and respect to certain of the Group’s plans and its current goals and expectations uncertainty because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that relating to its future financial condition and performance.
[Show full text]