Mainfreight’s Three Pillars

Culture

Under promise and over deliver
Keep reinventing ourselves with time and growth
Education is optional, learning is compulsory
Let the individual decide
Keep it simple
Tear down the walls of bureaucracy, hierarchy and superiority.
Promote from within
Avoid mediocrity—maintain standards and beat them constantly
Look after your assets
Integrity—how it affects others

Philosophy

100 year vision
Profit comes from hard work not talk
Drive the business by margin not revenue
Train successors so that you may advance
An enduring company is built by many good people, not a few
We are here to make a positive difference as well as a dollar
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Family

Eat together—meal times as a discussion time
Listen to each other
Share the profits and successes
Openly discuss problems
Don’t beat up your brothers and sisters
Have respect—seek it from other and show it by actions