with the support of
Ausenco, GPR Dehler, HSBC & Outokumpu
Thursday, 3rd April at 12.30 p.m.
Presents
Centennial Coal CEO Bob Cameron
Centennial Coal Boxes its way into Heavyweight Class
The rise of Centennial Coal from junior hopeful at its 1994 listing to Australia’s largest independent pure listed coal company and NSWs biggest underground producer has been a levitation of unexpected magnitude. CEO Bob Cameron founded the company in 1989 and has now conjured a tally of 13 mines with the August 2002 acquisition of NSW state-owned Powercoal giving it a $350m market cap and a key role in the heart of NSW infrastructure. If you’re a New South Welshman, nearly 40% of the power that lights and warms your life is now generated from Centennials coal.
Bob is promising us a story-behind-the-story exclusive account of his extraordinary corporate journey. His deep attraction to the flat-black mineral lies in its history and the intriguing tapestry of support and interdependence its people work with. His management understands it and gives responsibility to each operation which works in a stand-alone company. In return, one source said, his staff would walk across hot coals for him (without any regard for the obvious pun). With the new Powercoal mines now in the fold, the job is to permeate the new mines with Centennials special cultural strengths through bathouse and crib room meetings and to offer these mines a new immediacy in solution finding. With Powercoals vendor, the NSW Govt, still being the main customer and the regulator, one would not expect Centennial to be critical of how these assets were run but there is confidence that efficiency is arriving. Bob Cameron is also keen to transfer his culture of interdependency to the proposed Anvil Hill open cut mine in the Hunter. The new Mandalong mine will add a 4th longwall to the group. But for Bob, the boutique Berrima mine, winkled in the bottom of a gorge will always remain a business of equal importance. Making Centennial tick is a complex task and has many operators asking how do you do that? Not to be missed!
Julian Malnic RSVP Tuesday 1st April 2003
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Dear Sydney Mining Clubbers,
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