'A Trusted Partner' is the theme we have been building on over the last two years and is echoed in the corporate website.

For the front cover of the 118-page 2009 annual report we reproduced a full colour painting by Richard Walker having used an alternative version, in black and white, for the Half-year report published the previous September.

The imagery looks to the future and hints at the organisation's ambition as one of the world's foremost support services and construction companies.