The in-house journal of the Marshall Group of Companies TEAMWORK ve 2 si 1 clu 0 x 2 A E AVT 9 - 19 G M s N page I R P S Daniel Marshall wins Air League Marshall Medal Former Air League Scholar Daniel Marshall was recently awarded the highly prestigious Air League Marshall of Cambridge Gold Medal for 2011. Daniel was presented with the medal by His Royal Highness Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh at a ceremony in St James’s Palace. However, in order to cement relationship, Daniel recently visited Marshall to learn a little bit more about the Company, whose name is inscribed on the medal. Daniel, who works as a First Officer flying Phenom 100 Executive Jet Aircraft for Flare Jets based out of Oxford, is no stranger to CHAIRMAN ’S Cambridge Airport and its executive Comm ents handling facilities, but his eyes widened as he saw the depth and breadth of business I’m delighted with the progress of Robert, undertaken by Marshall in support of a our new Chief Executive, and his team and through them all of you, as we work our variety of customers, including the UK way through a challenging time of many Ministry of Defence. changes. Overall we are off to a good start to 2012 and it is encouraging to see Daniel is pictured holding his Marshall so many wins for the Company with Motor Medal in front of a Hercules Aircraft in the Group having had a good March, with MA Marshall Aerospace Hangars. beating deadlines for its customers and working ever more closely with Lockheed Martin, and with MLS having a number of exciting prospects. I am also delighted STOP PRESS... with our success in the RoSPA Awards and Award winning practice recognised by RoSPA know that all in the team will do their utmost to maintain this great record. Each of the Marshall Group Operating Companies has had its approach to the prevention of accidents and ill health recognised in the RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Awards In visiting various parts of our activities in 2012. Marshall Motor Group has been awarded its 2nd Silver Award; Marshall VE has recent weeks I have been hugely impressed been awarded its 4th Silver Award; Marshall SV has been awarded its 10th consecutive by the cheerful and business- like way in which our colleagues throughout the Group Gold Award which also earns them a President’s Award; and Marshall Aerospace has been are doing their best to ensure that we awarded its 11th Gold Award, earning them their 2nd President’s Award. continue to produce amazing results for our customers. Robert Marshall, Marshall Group Chief Executive, commented: “This is really fabulous news for the Group and is the result of a lot of hard work in every OpCo. There can’t be many I hope that all who read this will feel pride other groups which can match this achievement.” in what they and their colleagues throughout the Group are achieving. The awards will be presented on 15th May at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel and There is so much happening and it is a will be covered in detail in the next edition of Teamwork. very exciting time for all of us in the Group. In all sectors of our business we face challenges. So many of the financial and Non-Exec Director business systems of the world are going through much uncertainty and change. I receives apprenticeship honours award am also aware of the difficult times which many of our staff and customers are Allan Cook CBE is a Non-Executive Director facing. By being true to our core values, of Marshall of Cambridge (Holdings) Ltd we will undoubtedly rise to these and is also the Chairman of Semta, the challenges and carve out an exciting future employer-led Sector Skills Council for for all sectors of our business. Science, Engineering and Manufacturing In many other ways this year is such an Technologies in the UK. Allan has received exciting one. For those of you who watch an Honorary Apprenticeship from the the 60 year Diamond Jubilee Pageant on Apprenticeship Ambassadors Network the Thames on 3rd June you may be able (AAN) in recognition of his outstanding to pick out the Cambridge University Launch. I will be on board together with a commitment to Apprenticeships in the few local dignitaries representing the civic manufacturing and engineering sectors. and business life of Cambridgeshire. Following that we will have the excitement The Honorary Apprenticeship Awards recognise the achievements of those with of the Olympic Games which I hope will successful careers which began through vocational training and business people who bring lots of additional traffic through have made a contribution to the development of Apprenticeships. Cambridge Airport. Semta plays a pivotal role in stimulating apprenticeship growth in engineering and I am pleased that the Group has continued to play its part in so many useful and manufacturing. It was awarded £5 million by the UK Commission for Employment and charitable fields. I was pleased to receive a Skills (UKCES) to increase the skills of the existing workforce and bring in new talent letter of thanks for our Cambridge Rainforest through the recruitment of both graduates and apprentices. Appeal which has saved 222 acres of vital habitat in Borneo, to protect the dwindling The funding will support Semta in implementing sustainable skills solutions for three numbers of orang-utans and other work streams, including increasing the number of SMEs which recruit an apprentice endangered species of animals and plants. from 11 per cent to 20 per cent by 2016. Thank you for all your own continuing efforts on behalf of the company and our Additionally Semta has an Apprenticeship Ambition, which aims to take customers, and all best wishes for the the number of advanced and higher level apprenticeship registrations summer. from 8,000 to 16,000 by 2016 through delivery of a ten point plan. To support the Ambition, Semta’s new Apprenticeship Service allows sector employers to realise the benefits of apprenticeships by managing the whole process from recruitment, through design, to Teamwork sourcing providers and funding, and ensuring programme quality. Spring 2012 2 Chief Executive’s Column It has been an eventful and highly to develop and protect these valuable developing deep relationships with the rewarding first quarter for me as Group relationships and ‘go the extra mile’. defence forces in other countries, Chief Executive. I would like to thank including Australia, Canada and Saudi everyone, especially my endlessly In Marshall Aerospace, we have signed a Arabia, in addition to our existing supportive father, for making the potentially vital agreement with Lockheed relationships in Norway. Building these transition period seamless and smooth. Martin to co-operate in our non-core close relationships is hugely time- market areas. We have also become a consuming, but I am confident that we will Right at the start of the year, we held our ‘Bronze Supplier’ to the Boeing Aircraft find it commensurately rewarding in the first MAVTA awards ceremony at King’s Company. Very importantly, we are doing months and years ahead. College in Cambridge. We celebrated everything possible to deliver to the RAF – achievement against our Values with the move to RAF Brize Norton from RAF We are also making good progress with awards in the categories of Customer Lyneham has been very challenging and it our plans to make Cambridge Airport a Service, Leadership, Teamwork, is only by working in partnership that we stand-alone business. We have two new Innovation and Service in the Community. and the RAF will meet the challenge of business partners to the Airport, with PTC It already feels like we have started a keeping the vital air bridge fully open to now offering pilot-training business on site tradition of celebrating success and Afghanistan and the many other countries and Execujet running the executive jet achievement, and we are now launching where our Forces are engaged. FBO (Fixed Base Operation) at the 2012 MAVTA Awards. Cambridge. Our Aeroclub Flying School In Marshall Motor Group, our core is also winning new members as a result In February, we held our important annual relationships are with our customers and of its marketing initiatives. Directors Conference from which the our vehicle manufacturer brand partners. message was clear that we can only Our successful growth over the last three On the property front, having taken the prosper in accordance with our full years has been achieved on the back of significant decision not to relocate our potential if we communicate with and fully our partnership approach with the Cambridge-based businesses, I am engage everyone in our Company. Across manufacturers and our reputation in this pleased that we are working with our each of our five operating companies, area allowed us to acquire our first operating companies to optimise our use including Group, we have ramped up our Volkswagen businesses in February. On of our property portfolio for the long term communication and I look forward to the the business front, I am particularly benefit of our businesses. launch of this year’s Great Place to delighted with the turnaround in the Work™ Survey in June. I cannot over fortunes of our Mercedes businesses in Finally, I would like to thank everyone in emphasise the importance of this survey, the North West. We have also seen some the business for your ongoing support and and I was pleased to witness some of the general improvement in the retail market commitment to our Group. Across all of sessions where groups of people have place, with more customers out buying our operating companies, we have seen a discussed the results openly and cars than we were seeing through much good start to 2012, which is the result of a developed improvement plans.