Overview

Report Profile, Boundary and Scope

This is DCC’s third Sustainability Report and follows the same reporting cycle and fiscal year as the Annual Report. The scope of this report includes subsidiaries which contribute in excess of 99% Group profitability¹.

The Corporate Sustainability Working Group (CSWG), which comprises senior Group, divisional and subsidiary management, was formed in 2009 and reports to the Chief Executive. In determining report content the CSWG consulted with senior management to determine aspects that were material at a divisional level. These formed the basis for a Group level materiality matrix which identified four material aspects - direct economic value added, climate change, health & safety and business ethics - which are reported on below.

Governance, Structures and Processes

The role of the CSWG is to develop appropriate corporate sustainability policies, processes and performance indicators across the DCC Group and to support the integration of sustainability into our business strategies to deliver competitive advantage.

Presentations to the DCC plc Board and to divisional management have been completed and sustainability workshops involving all subsidiary management teams will be held in the first half of the current financial year. External experts have been invited to participate to provide industry examples of best practice.

Stakeholder Engagement

In general, feedback from investors has been limited, though positive. During 2011 we will, at a Group level, increase our engagement with investors and other stakeholders to identify any further informational requirements. At subsidiary level, management will formally identify and engage with key stakeholders including customers, suppliers, employees and the local community.

Our People

DCC employs 8,037 people across the Group, approximately 90% of whom are in permanent employment.

Graduate Recruitment Programme

As a diverse and expanding business, it is critical to DCC’s long term sustainability to develop senior executives with multi-sector, multi-functional and multi-country skill sets who can grow and develop into international business leaders in the future. One action in support of this during the year was the implementation of a new graduate recruitment programme, the DCC Future Leaders Programme. This was launched in October 2010 in Britain and Ireland to recruit a select cadre of young, high quality and mobile graduates. There was a strong response to the recruitment programme with over 1,300 applicants. Offers were made to the top performers from the programme and DCC will have 10 graduates taking up an initial two year rotation programme in September 2011.

Material Aspects

As noted earlier, the CSWG in conjunction with senior divisional management, determined four sustainability aspects to be material to the DCC Group. These aspects are common to all subsidiaries although additional aspects, for example sourcing of raw materials, may be identified as material to a particular business and addressed accordingly.

Reporting

This report meets the requirements of the Global Reporting Initiative level C+ standard, as identified in the content table below. Feedback on this Sustainability Report is welcome and should be addressed to John Barcroft, Head of Group Environment, Health & Safety or David Byrne, Senior Independent Director.

Content table for GRI Level C

GRI Section No.	Standard Disclosure	Annual Report Page
1.1	Statement from Chief Executive	12
2.1 - 2.10	Organisational Profile	Inside front cover
3.1 - 3.8	Profile, Boundary and Scope	46
3.10 - 3.12	Restatement	46
4.1 - 4.4	Governance	56
4.14 - 4.15	Stakeholder Engagement	46
EC1	Direct Economic Value	46
EN3	Direct Energy Consumption	48
EN4	Indirect Energy Consumption	48
EN16	Greenhouse gases	48
EN17	Other indirect sources	48
EN23	Spillage	48
EN28	Non-Compliance	48
LA1	Workforce	46
LA7	Rates of Injury	49
SO6	Political Contributions	53

 

¹ Virtus, a US healthcare subsidiary with 131 employees, in which DCC is a 51% shareholder, is not included within the scope of this report. It will be included in next year’s report.