Communication
During the year, Board members reinforced our CR objectives. CEO Sir Crispin Davis highlighted key CR achievements at the RE Annual General Meetings in London and Amsterdam and in messages to staff. Launching last year’s Corporate Responsibility Report he wrote in a global email, “I believe strongly that Reed Elsevier has a very important responsibility towards all our stakeholders...not just shareholders, but our customers, our employees, and our communities...”
In 2008, we launched a more comprehensive corporate responsibility section on www.reedelsevier. com and, on the new global intranet, RE World, we have clustered corporate responsibility sites into one portal for the benefit of staff. The Green Room environment site, the Reed Elsevier Cares community site, and the Health Resources health and safety site, among others, have been augmented by new features like CR as a Sales Tool, which helps colleagues use our CR performance as a differentiator in requests for information and proposals.