Talk:Brambles Limited

Move this "Brambles Industries" page to "Brambles Limited"

I haven't done many moves but it seems this page is a good candidate to move to Brambles Limited because:

1. This article's infobox and first sentence refer to the company as "Brambles Limited".
2. The company's website (on the contact page and investor relations page) refer to themselves as "Brambles Limited"
3. The Google Finance page states "Brambles Limited, formerly Brambles Industries Limited..."

I guess I'll make the move (and follow the directions on the move page) in a week or so if there's no response here by then or if no one beats me to it. --Georgeryp (talk) 18:01, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Page updates

Hi, this content about Brambles Limited could do with some updating. Specifically, it lists the CEO as Tom Gorman, who left the business in February 2017 - the current CEO is Graham Chipchase. The company headquarters have now been moved to London, UK and the sales results in the summary box are from 2014, more up to date details are available on the company website www.brambles.com I am a company employee so although these edits are non controversial I wanted to disclose my potential conflict of interest. Please don't hesitate to contact me on my discussion page if you have any question. Many thanks! Msquidnunc (talk) 10:57, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

As no one has expressed concern about this I will make these updates, thanks.Msquidnunc (talk) 12:46, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Page updates

Hi, me again. A lot of the content on the page is out of date - the corporate financial data is 5 years old and there have been changes to the leadership team. Up to date data is available on the company website - www.brambles.com or in its Annual Reports. If an editor would like to update this that would be great, otherwise i will make some changes in the coming weeks - but again i disclose i am a company employee. many thanks Msquidnunc (talk) 13:41, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

Edit request

As stated in my above comments, some of this information is out of date. As i am a company employee i don't want to make meaningful edits myself, so it would be terrific if an editor would consider the following changes:

Edit request

INFOBOX

Headquarters - now Sydney, Australia and London, UK

Suggest deleting revenue and net income sections as they change annually and are not being updated here - or update based on recent results from company website

Number of employees: circa 10,000 (2019)

MAIN CONTENT

Replace third sentence with:

As at 30 June 2019 Brambles employed more than 10,000 people and owned approximately 330 million pallets, crates and containers through a network of about 750 service centres. [source remains the same]

Section 'Operations/acquisitions' needs to be reworked as the business no longer reports in these operating segments suggest language such as:

Brambles has operations in more than 60 countries worldwide and manages a range of products including:

• Pallets: Brambles' pallet pooling and associated services businesses, predominantly under the CHEP brand, serves customers in multiple supply chains across three key regions: Americas; Europe, Middle East & Africa; and Asia Pacific.

• RPCs: Brambles’ reusable produce crate (RPC) pooling services business, serves customers in the fresh produce sector in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa under the CHEP brand.

• Containers: Brambles provides reusable containers to the automotive and other sectors, and manages a pool of kegs under its brand Kegstar.

Since 2009, Brambles has made a number of acquisitions, the largest of which have been:

• IFCO, a provider of pooled reusable produce crates (RPC) to the food supply chain worldwide and of pallet services in the US, for an enterprise value of €923 million (US$1,255 million). The acquisition was completed in April 2011. Brambles announced on 25 February 2019 that it had entered into a binding agreement to sell IFCO to Triton and a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) for an enterprise value of US$2.51 billion

• Pallecon, a provider of intermediate bulk containers in Europe and the Asia-Pacific, for €135 million (US$177 million). The acquisition was completed in January 2013.[10]

[Third bullet above has also been updated to reference a business sale - source could be: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brambles-strategy-ifco/brambles-sells-ifco-business-for-2-5-billion-to-buy-back-shares-idUSKCN1QE0I6]

Section 'Management' could also be updated to reflect significant personnel changes [source remains the same]:

The current board of directors are:

• Stephen Johns, non-executive chairman (independent)

• Graham Chipchase, chief executive officer

• George El Zoghbi, non-executive director (independent)

• Elizabeth Fagan, non-executive director (independent)

• Tony Froggatt, non-executive director (independent)

• Tahira Hassan, non-executive director (independent)

• Brian Long, non-executive director (independent)

• Jim Miller, non-executive director (independent)

• John Mullen, non-executive director & chairman elect (independent)

• Nessa O’Sullivan, chief financial officer

• Scott Perkins, non-executive director (independent)

In November 2019 the company announced that John Mullen had joined the board as a director and had been named chairman-elect, to assume the chairman’s role when Stephen Johns retires in 2020.

[reference for this above statement could be https://www.afr.com/companies/retail/telstra-chairman-john-mullen-adds-brambles-to-busy-load-20191031-p5360k]

The executive leadership team is:

• Graham Chipchase, chief executive officer

• Carmelo Alonso-Bernaola, senior vice president, global supply chain

• Phillip Austin, president, CHEP Asia-Pacific

• Patrick Bradley, group senior vice president, human resources

• David Cuenca, president, CHEP Latin America

• Robert Gerrard, group vice president, legal and secretariat

• Alasdair Hamblin, senior vice president, strategy & innovation

• Rodney Hefford, chief information officer

• Craig Jones, president, CHEP North America

• Laura Nador, President, CHEP North America

• Nessa O’Sullivan, chief financial officer

• Sarah Pellegrini, vice president, internal communications

• Michael Pooley, president, CHEP Europe

Many thanks for your consideration! Msquidnunc (talk) 12:17, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

Reply 3-JAN-2020

  References requested  

• Please provide sources for the information you are trying to add to the article.
• Please place any added sources along with the proposed text in a new edit request placed at the bottom of the talk page.

Regards,  Spintendo  17:05, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

Edit request

Thanks for the feedback Spintendo. Please find update below, being clearer with the sourcing. Let me know if there's a better way to do this.

Edit request

INFOBOX

Headquarters - Sydney, Australia and London, UK [reference: https://www.brambles.com/contact-location]

Suggest deleting revenue and net income sections as they change annually and are not being updated here - or update based on recent results from company website

Number of employees: circa 11,000 (2019) [reference: https://www.brambles.com/about]

MAIN CONTENT 

Replace third sentence with:

As at 30 June 2019 Brambles employed more than 11,000 people and owned approximately 330 million pallets, crates and containers through a network of about 750 service centres. [source remains the same: https://www.brambles.com/about]

Section 'Operations/acquisitions' needs to be reworked as the business no longer reports in these operating segments suggest language such as:

Brambles has operations in more than 60 countries worldwide and manages a range of products including:

• Pallets: Brambles' pallet pooling and associated services businesses, predominantly under the CHEP brand, serves customers in multiple supply chains across three key regions: Americas; Europe, Middle East & Africa; and Asia Pacific.

• RPCs: Brambles’ reusable produce crate (RPC) pooling services business, serves customers in the fresh produce sector in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa under the CHEP brand.

• Containers: Brambles provides reusable containers to the automotive and other sectors, and manages a pool of kegs under its brand Kegstar. [reference: https://www.brambles.com/about]

Since 2009, Brambles has made a number of acquisitions, the largest of which have been:

• IFCO, a provider of pooled reusable produce crates (RPC) to the food supply chain worldwide and of pallet services in the US, for an enterprise value of €923 million (US$1,255 million). The acquisition was completed in April 2011. Brambles announced on 25 February 2019 that it had entered into a binding agreement to sell IFCO to Triton and a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) for an enterprise value of US$2.51 billion

• Pallecon, a provider of intermediate bulk containers in Europe and the Asia-Pacific, for €135 million (US$177 million). The acquisition was completed in January 2013.[10]

[Third bullet above has also been updated to reference a business sale - source could be: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brambles-strategy-ifco/brambles-sells-ifco-business-for-2-5-billion-to-buy-back-shares-idUSKCN1QE0I6]

Section 'Management' could also be updated to reflect significant personnel changes :

The current board of directors are:

• Stephen Johns, non-executive chairman (independent)

• Graham Chipchase, chief executive officer

• George El Zoghbi, non-executive director (independent)

• Elizabeth Fagan, non-executive director (independent)

• Tony Froggatt, non-executive director (independent)

• Tahira Hassan, non-executive director (independent)

• Brian Long, non-executive director (independent)

• Jim Miller, non-executive director (independent)

• John Mullen, non-executive director & chairman elect (independent)

• Nessa O’Sullivan, chief financial officer

• Scott Perkins, non-executive director (independent)

[reference: https://www.brambles.com/board-of-directors ]

In November 2019 the company announced that John Mullen had joined the board as a director and had been named chairman-elect, to assume the chairman’s role when Stephen Johns retires in 2020. 

[reference for this above statement could be https://www.afr.com/companies/retail/telstra-chairman-john-mullen-adds-brambles-to-busy-load-20191031-p5360k]

The executive leadership team is:

• Graham Chipchase, chief executive officer

• Carmelo Alonso-Bernaola, senior vice president, global supply chain

• Phillip Austin, president, CHEP Asia-Pacific

• Patrick Bradley, group senior vice president, human resources

• David Cuenca, president, CHEP Latin America

• Robert Gerrard, group vice president, legal and secretariat

• Alasdair Hamblin, senior vice president, strategy & innovation

• Rodney Hefford, chief information officer

• Craig Jones, president, CHEP North America

• Laura Nador, President, CHEP North America

• Nessa O’Sullivan, chief financial officer

• Sarah Pellegrini, vice president, internal communications

• Michael Pooley, president, CHEP Europe

[reference: https://www.brambles.com/executive-leadership-team]

Thanks,

Msquidnunc (talk) 11:59, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

Reply 6-JAN-2020

  Edit request implemented    Spintendo  18:52, 6 January 2020 (UTC)