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                                                                                                                               StarHub Ltd Annual Report 2015

and services, serve customers, create employee happiness, cater to community needs and                                         Overview
become a better business.

Combined with insights from materiality analysis, stakeholder feedback allows us to assess,
identify, prioritise and address the most significant ESG issues.

                                                                                                           G4-24 to G4-27

Suppliers                       Distributors/Retailers          Business Partners               Investors

HOW WE ENGAGE:                  HOW WE ENGAGE:                  HOW WE ENGAGE:                  HOW WE ENGAGE:                 Strategy

Quotations, Request             Regular meetings, shop visits,  Frequent discussions with       Quarterly briefings, annual    Performance
For Proposals, tenders,         email correspondence.           telecom and content partners.   press conference, Investors’
regular meetings,                                                                               Day, regular meetings,         Governance & Sustainability
email correspondence,           STAKEHOLDERS’                   STAKEHOLDERS’                   discussions, emails with
teleconferences.                EXPECTATIONS:                   EXPECTATIONS:                   over 240 institutional
                                                                                                investors, across Asia,
STAKEHOLDERS’                   Timely delivery; quality        Partnerships for business       Europe and the US.
EXPECTATIONS:                   assurance; strong dealer        opportunities and growth.
                                collaboration, driving good                                     STAKEHOLDERS’
Compliance with terms and       customer experience; after-     HOW WE RESPOND:                 EXPECTATIONS:
conditions of prevailing        sales support.
purchasing policies and                                         By engaging them to seek        Transparency, timely
procedures, while maintaining   HOW WE RESPOND:                 mutually beneficial business    information on company
ethical standards; appropriate                                  opportunities.                  progress and status,
costs; marketing support from   By proactive sales planning;                                    profitability.
suppliers.                      sales support; regular visits   PROGRESS DURING 2015:
                                by Account Managers and                                         HOW WE RESPOND:
HOW WE RESPOND:                 providing Single Point of       •	 Partner engagement and
                                Contact for distributors/          communications were key      By endeavouring to generate
By establishing policies and    partners for timely response.      in 2015 as we moved from     optimum return on
practices that ensure a fair                                       three distribution channels  investment, good governance,
selection and procurement       PROGRESS DURING 2015:              to one.                      transparency and disclosure,
process, ethical business                                                                       as well as sustainable and
practices and respect for       With the action plans that      •	 From account manager         long-term growth of business.
contractual obligations.        were put in place, we have         to GM levels, we engaged
                                improved our Partner Delight       channel partners on regular  PROGRESS DURING 2015:
PROGRESS DURING 2015:           Index score from 3.5 to 3.8        platforms such as business
                                points in 2015.                    reviews, product and         We continued a strong
We have completed Supplier                                         promotion trainings,         investor engagement in the
Sustainability Survey for 50    PLANS FOR 2016:                    sales and achievement        reporting year that included
top suppliers, up from 20 in                                       reporting and retailers get  210 face-to-face investor
the previous year.              We will continue to engage         together events.             meetings.
                                through quarterly and yearly
PLANS FOR 2016:                 performance updates,            PLANS FOR 2016:                 PLANS FOR 2016:
                                sharing sales trends. We
We expect to simplify some of   will also review our NPS        We will continue to             To maintain current levels of
the supplier related processes  performance weekly and do       enhance engagement.             investor engagement, with
after the SAP version upgrade   the necessary to improve        We will also be leveraging      good corporate governance,
is completed in end Q1.         customer service levels.        technology via mobile app       transparency and disclosure.
Our target is to increase the                                   to enhance information and
number of top suppliers                                         communication with our
covered by the Supplier                                         channels, on various aspects
Sustainability Survey to 60.                                    of the business such as new
                                                                product launches, targets,
                                                                incentives and partner events.

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