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A WORLD-CLASS COMPANY

FOR A WORLD-CLASS TEAM

Our people have always made Martin Marietta great, Created based on the thoughts and ideas of scores of our
and in 2019, their ideas and actions helped make our people, ONE focuses on three themes: Legacy, Truth and
company greater than ever. With these efforts expected Heart. Its primary purpose is to strengthen our culture by
to continue in 2020 and beyond, our shared future looks uniting every employee around the same ideas, regardless
incredibly bright. of where they’re located or what their role may be.
Two years ago, we organized a World Class Task “Our goal is to improve the overall employee experience,”
Force comprised of nearly 70 employees representing said Sean Foley, vice president-general manager of the
various specialties and product lines, differing levels North Texas/Oklahoma District and member of the task
of professional responsibility and our vast geographic force. “We want to make sure we’re putting our best
footprint. Broken down into nine teams, task force foot forward and being transparent with our people and
members were charged with improving Martin Marietta’s recruits. ONE will help us do that.”
performance in certain key areas: safety, people, ethics, Looking to 2020, the World Class Task Force has a host of
customer focus, cost discipline, operational excellence, planned initiatives that will solidify Martin Marietta’s safety
sustainability, innovation and brand recognition.
training, improve the experience of our job applicants and
further enhance our already strong reputation.
“Now is the point where we will start to see the
“We’ve spent the past two years making excitement and momentum build,” Osberg said. “The
sure we were leaving nothing uncovered. World Class Task Force is about continuous improvement
We really wanted to understand what we and about moving forward as a unified company.
had in place before we made any effort Ultimately, we’re all working together to benefit Martin
to strengthen or change things.”
Marietta for the future.”
“It’s taken a long time, but that was purposeful,” said
Suzanne Osberg, vice president of investor relations and
the person charged with overseeing each of the task force
teams. “We’ve spent the past two years making sure we Quality Supervisor Carly Paige spoke about her quality control
work in Denver. In an effort to highlight the ONE brand, we
were leaving nothing uncovered. We really wanted to turned her thoughts into engaging content for our digital signs.
understand what we had in place before we made any
effort to strengthen or change things.”
When changes did begin to take place, they were
highly noticeable.

In August, we celebrated our 25th anniversary as a
public company by doing something we’d never done
before: broadcasting a live town hall event with Chairman
and CEO Ward Nye to every employee in the company.
Throughout the fall, we began installing digital screens
at every company operation. Updated regularly, these
screens now help inform our people about vital company
announcements and safety initiatives as well as events
like employee service anniversaries. Additionally, our
company magazine adopted a new column, The
Customer Corner, to highlight the many public
structures built with our materials.
Perhaps the most visible impact the World Class Task
Force had came in October 2019 when we launched
a new employer brand, ONE.

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