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CONSTRUCTION
Luke Dutton General Manager - Products & Markets
Mark Dalwood Chief Financial Officer
– responsible for annual turnover from $ 20m to $ 500m – Negri has an entrepreneurial spirit .
“ My approach to business comes from running a number of family businesses ,” he says , “ What ’ s really important to me is engaging , building and inspiring our people while challenging the status quo .”
He claims one of the key challenges for the industry is to continue innovating whilst minimising energy usage , and doing things that improve the overall well-being of the planet .
“ We ’ ve spent the last couple of years restructuring the business to be lower cost ,” he adds , “ making it more customer-centric and focusing on our people ; having an engaged workforce who want to come to work and deliver for our customers .
“ We call ourselves ‘ water people ’, because we focus on one product : water . We care about how it gets
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