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Corporate Governance Report (continued)
Deliver
growth
8
9
Principle
Promote a
corporate culture
that is based on
ethical values and
behaviours
Maintain
governance
structures and
processes that
are 昀椀t for purpose
and support good
decision making by
the Board
Compliance
•
The Board is committed to providing an environment and opportunities that
encourage and reinforce the corporate culture of the Group.
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The Board is also committed to extending the values that it promotes to include all
stakeholder groups. The RWS Code of Conduct encompasses the way we do business,
our colleagues, our clients, our community and the environment around us.
•
Our commitment to corporate sustainability is underpinned by our core ethical
values and behaviours and aims to deliver continual improvement in our economic,
social and environmental performance.
•
The Board recognises the importance of, and is committed to, ensuring that e昀昀ective
corporate governance procedures are in place that are appropriate for a public
company of RWS’s size and complexity.
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For details of how the Board operates, see pages 74 to 76.
•
Members of the Group’s Executive Team are invited to certain Board meetings to
report on their particular areas of responsibility.
•
See the Corporate Governance Report on page 75 for further information on Board
members’ roles and responsibilities.
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We pride ourselves on having open communication with a range of stakeholders.
•
Company news and presentations, regulatory announcements, 昀椀nancial reports and
results are available on the Group’s website www.rws.com.
The Group has properly constituted Audit, Nomination and Remuneration
Committees of the Board with formally delegated duties and responsibilities. The
Committees’ respective terms of reference are available on the Group’s website. The
work of the sub-committees is described on pages 82 to 94.
BUILD TRUST
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Communicate
how the Company
is governed and
is performing
by maintaining
a dialogue with
shareholders and
other relevant
stakeholders
Communications with shareholders are explained in Principle 2 above.
Other communication includes investor roadshows and conferences, meetings with
our brokers, prospective investors, colleague brie昀椀ngs and one-on-one meetings
with clients and suppliers and the Annual Report. On 10 October 2023, we held
an Arti昀椀cial Intelligence ("AI") and technology teach-in. The Group demonstrated
how it has been pursuing the strategy set out at its Capital Markets Day in 2022,
with a speci昀椀c focus on opportunities to drive both growth and e昀케ciency through
its unique range of AI and technology products, its AI-oriented services and its
operating platform. Live demonstrations of the Group's Language Weaver, Trados,
Tridion and TrainAI o昀昀erings also took place during the event.
RWS Holdings plc — Annual Report 2023 GOVERNANCE REPORT
