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| My vision is based on the assumption that we have "lived"
our mission statement—our purpose—and have achieved
our strategic business objectives. |
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| Our business purpose is to serve our customers and
the community as a whole. We will serve them with products
that are innovative and more efficacious than those
offered by our competitors. Quality is delivery of increasingly
higher levels of service to our customers. |
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| Developing, manufacturing, and selling medical products
are the activities we engage in, in order to serve. |
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| The Hollister of the future will be larger and more
complex than it is today. But the big difference between
Hollister today and the one in the vision will be the
associates and how we interact. |
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| Hollister will be more personal as a working environment
because all associates will be serving one another in
a way that creates a sense of community similar to the
sense of family that existed when Mr. Schneider was
running a smaller company. |
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| We want our associates to look upon their work not
as an occupation, but a vocation...not a necessary chore
for making a living, but an opportunity for personal
development and fulfillment. |
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| Hollister associates will be viewed as unique individuals
with dignity and intrinsic value, independent of the
work they do. They will be united in a common cause,
each contributing his or her indispensable work, well
done, so that the individual efforts add up to a collective
world-class result. |
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| We do not exist to make a profit. This is not an end,
but a means by which we can continue as a strong, independently-owned
company. |
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| Alan F. Herbert, Chairman |
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