Stakeholders
Stakeholders are the ultimate beneficiaries of the value that Valeura generates. Therefore their perspectives play a vital role in the Company’s decision-marking, risk assessment, community trust-building, regulatory compliance, and overall garnering of support for its operations.
Valeura follows a well-defined stakeholder engagement process, designed to ensure effective collaboration with these diverse groups, and to create space to adjust interactions based on appropriateness, context, and other relationship dynamics. The Company’s stakeholder engagement process was reviewed in 2025 and was confirmed as being in alignment with industry best practice.
1 Stakeholder Identification
Valeura’s stakeholder engagement process sets out an identification approach that considers the impact of the Company’s operations on individuals and their significance to the business.
Each department within the Company assesses stakeholders based on the following concepts:
- Dependency: Groups or individuals directly or indirectly dependent on the organisation’s activities, products, services, or performance;
- Responsibility: Groups or individuals to whom the organisation has, or may have in the future, legal, commercial, operational, or ethical/moral responsibilities;
- Tension: Groups or individuals requiring immediate attention from the organisation regarding financial, economic, social, or environmental issues stemming from the Company’s strategy or activities;
- Influence: Groups or individuals with the potential to positively or negatively impact the organisation’s strategy or operational decision-making; and
- Diverse Perspectives: Groups or individuals external to the organisation offering varied views that can lead to a new understanding of the situation and identify opportunities for action that may not otherwise be apparent.
2 Stakeholder Prioritisation
Stakeholder Prioritisation entails analysing and ranking the importance of stakeholder groups with whom the Company must engage. In 2025, Valeura reviewed its prioritisation of stakeholders and chose to maintain its relative ranking of stakeholder groups, unchanged from the prior year.
3 Stakeholder Engagement Planning
Valeura addresses the stakeholders’ concerns strategically to devise a specific engagement plan for each group. This involves developing an engagement plan that considers both the significance of the particular stakeholder and their relationship with Valeura.
4 Monitoring and Evaluation
After implementation, the Company continuously tracks and assesses the effectiveness of its stakeholder engagement plan. This involves recording consultations, developing operational plans based on input, and communicating results and actions taken. This ensures ongoing improvement and effectiveness in the stakeholder engagement procedure.