IGO Interactive Annual Report 2018

IGO’s transformation is a tribute to our people who come to work every day to make a difference. They are bold, passionate, fearless and fun. They make IGO a smarter, kinder, more innovative company. Doing what is right – because we care Our strategy has also focused on the environmental, social and governance (ESG) aspects of the business. This focus has resulted in stronger systems and processes to support the business as well as a structured approach to our interactions with all stakeholders to better demonstrate how we care. This approach has included consistent interactions with community stakeholders  to keep them informed about the business. We also have  a structured corporate giving program to support initiatives that strengthen the communities within which we operate. Diversity and inclusion are important to us and we are proud of our progress during the past year to improve both gender and indigenous diversity. At 30 June 2018, 31% of IGO’s employees were female and 3.27% of direct employees were Indigenous. To improve our safety metrics and to ensure that our people are not hurt while at work, we have focused on changing the way our leaders within the business interact with people about safety – what we call ‘visual safety leadership’. We have also introduced health and wellbeing programs, which include stretch exercises at the start of each working shift to minimise the strains and sprains that are historically our single biggest cause of injury. Our ESG progress is covered in more detail in our fourth annual sustainability report which will be released in October 2018. Creating a strong culture, the IGO Way At IGO we recognise that a strong culture underpins successful strategies and companies. We therefore work with our employees to create both a positive culture and the programs we need to actively shape our culture. In 2018, 97% of IGO employees participated in our engagement survey and we had an engagement score of 55%, which is the upper end of the benchmark for metals and mining companies. Ladies and gentlemen, it is our joint pleasure to summarise the progress of our Company during the 2018 financial year. A continuous and evolving strategy to reshape IGO Over the past few years we have pursued a strategy to reshape Independence Group, or IGO as we like to call ourselves, to focus on high quality projects of longer life and larger scale. This journey began with the commencement of gold production at Tropicana Operation in late 2013 and was followed in 2015 by the acquisition of Nova and its construction and development through to commercial production on 1 July 2017. In parallel, we have reshaped our exploration team and strategy to focus on belt-scale exploration opportunities that have the potential to deliver multiple tier one discoveries. These collective changes have culminated in a record year across multiple production and financial metrics as set out in the body of this annual report. PETER BILBE CHAIRMAN PETER BRADFORD MANAGING DIRECTOR & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER CHAIRMAN & CEO MESSAGE 04 — IGO ANNUAL REPORT 2018