This Sustainability Report covers the 2009 financial year. Last year’s Sustainability Report was contained within the Annual Report and can be found on the website.

Further information about Brambles’ Sustainability policies, practices, performance and reporting can be obtained by contacting the Vice President Investor Relations and Corporate Affairs at group.corporate.communications@brambles.com or by phone +61 (0) 2 9256 5222.

This Sustainability Report covers all Brambles business operations, including Brambles’ corporate office, CHEP sites and Recall sites, where Brambles has operational control or directly purchases materials or services. In addition, Brambles retains full operational control of policies, practices and data collection related to lumber, for both in-house and outsourced activities. Apart from lumber, the report does not include sites where Brambles does not have operational control (for example, outsourced activities).

There have been no significant changes in the scope or boundary of Brambles’ operation from the previous year.

This report considers sustainability issues that may have a material impact upon Brambles’ good reputation, the health and safety of stakeholders or the general public, the natural environment, or the societies in which its businesses operate. The basis for information included has been drawn from best practice and the Global Reporting Initiative’s G3 Guidelines (for a table outlining the principles and indicators and where these appear in Brambles’ Sustainability Report, please refer to the GRI Content Index ).

Wherever possible, Brambles has provided comparisons between this year’s data and data from previous years. Some data has not been compiled in previous years, however, and comparison is not possible. Measurement techniques and methodologies are described throughout the report where data is presented. The effects of any changes in information gathering or reporting are also stated throughout the report where necessary.

Brambles no longer reports transport fuel intensity data. Transport fuel is not a material consideration for Brambles’ operating businesses.

Brambles participates in the FTSE4Good, Dow Jones Sustainability Index and the Carbon Disclosure Project. Brambles is a founding member of the FTSE ISS Corporate Governance Index series (provided by FTSE Group and corporate governance leader Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), allowing investors to track the performance of companies with sound corporate governance practices) and a constituent of the Ethibel Excellence Sustainability Index and the Australian SAM Sustainability Index.

Brambles is a member of the Business Council of Australia, an association of the CEOs of 100 of Australia’s leading corporations established in 1983 as a forum for business leaders to contribute to public policy debates. Apart from this, Brambles is not a member of any national or international advocacy organisations at a corporate level.