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Core Purpose

To nurture exceptional creativity and innovation by supporting People's continuous and ambitious personal and professional growth in the pursuit of the highest quality products and services which advance global business standards and practices.

Core Purpose

The Corporate Objectives are presented in a circle format above - rather than in a list - because each of the Corporate Objectives is important to the Company's long-term success. Each Corporate Objective is equally weighted in business performance assessments, and each receives prime consideration in business investment and other decisions made by all Graniterock People. In addition, the circle format helps to convey the supportive and synergistic relationship between the objectives.

Safety
To operate all Graniterock facilities and job sites with Safety as the primary goal. Meeting production schedules or customer commitments are secondary. Every person will put Safety first - before all else.

Customer Satisfaction and Service
To earn the respect of our customers by partnering with them and providing them with products and services in a timely manner that anticipate and exceed their needs, and by providing them product and service advantages which contribute to the customer's business success.

Financial Performance and Growth
The commitment of Graniterock People to knowledge development, coupled with available financial resources, will drive business growth strategies and an expanding new product offering. Diligently plan and implement very long-term mining and resource plans needed to ensure a supply of construction materials for the next 100 or more years.

People
Graniterock People believe they can make a difference in the success of the Company and make their jobs more effective. Every person in the organization is given an opportunity to attain a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment from work achievements, to be recognized for individual and team accomplishments, and to be rewarded based upon demonstrated skills and job ownership performance.

Product Quality Assurance
To supply products and services which provide lasting value to our customers and end-point users (e.g., owners and architects), while leading industry standards and practices to "zero defects."

Community Contribution and Responsibility
To be exemplary citizens of each of the communities in which we operate by actively participating in achieving community goals. The environment is important to us; our actions shall be consistent with environmental responsibility.

Efficiency
To produce and deliver our services and products more efficiently than anyone in the world.

Management
To foster initiative, creativity and commitment by expecting each individual to desire personal and professional growth. To provide each person with the freedom of job ownership to establish work improvement objectives and the freedom of action to implement individual work improvement methods.

Profit
To earn a fair profit to provide resources needed to fund the achievement of our other objectives.

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