Dimension Data (DiData) says it will continue to focus on the IT industry`s highest growth sectors: communications networking infrastructure and electronic commerce software applications.
Chairman Jeremy Ord says in the group`s annual report that the group is operating in an industry where change is taking place at an increasingly fast rate, and DiData has to remain agile, constantly innovative and open to change.
"As Dimension Data attains critical mass globally, opportunities to attract and service multinational customers, attract and retain the best skills, secure optimal supplier terms and exact operational synergy will increase," he says.
"Strengthening barriers to competition entry places the group in a position where it can capitalise on new opportunities as they arise."
Ord adds that the growing demand for communication infrastructures, required to support the adoption of e-commerce initiatives, represents a significant opportunity.
The group is planning to list offshore on either the London Stock Exchange or Nasdaq by the middle of this year.
The group`s annual report has been released in a fully electronic, interactive and dynamic format only.
Group marketing director Richard Came says the decision to publish only a "virtual" annual report was based on DiData`s vision of how business will be conducted in the future.
In what the group says is a world first, the report has been posted on a dedicated Internet Web site rather than as a sub-section of a corporate Web site.
"Apart from the financial results and chairman`s statement, which cannot change, all other sections of the annual report will be updated constantly, giving investors a contemporary view of the group, rather than the historic perspective contained in traditional reports," says Came.
Only those components required by law to be included in annual reports - the balance sheet, income statement and commentary - have been reproduced in hard copy format.
This was sent to shareholders with a 12-page "virtual" annual report, which contains no more than the Web addresses on the site. The report also contains an abridged version of the report on a stiffy disk.
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