Bibby refreshes Group Values to strengthen performance, partnership & long-term growth

For 220 years, Bibby has been a family business built on strong values, a clear purpose and long-term relationships. Those foundations have served the Group well for generations – helping shape how it works within its businesses, across the Group and with customers, partners, communities and wider stakeholders.

While Bibby’s commitment to values remains constant, the world continues to change, and the environment in which the Group operates is more complex and unpredictable than ever with expectations from colleagues, customers and clients continuing to evolve.

Refreshed Values

That is why Bibby has refreshed its Group-wide Values – to provide a clear, shared guide for how the organisation works, leads and partners today, and into the future.

The updated Values have been shaped through extensive input from colleagues across its subsidiaries over the past 12 months. They reflect what already works well across the Group, while creating a clearer and more aligned foundation for how Bibby continues to evolve in a fast-changing world.

The refresh forms part of Bibby’s ongoing commitment to building a more aligned, agile and future-focused organisation – one that is better placed to respond to a rapidly changing external environment and continue delivering for customers, partners and stakeholders.

Strengthening how Bibby works and delivers

The updated Values set shared standards for how colleagues work together, make decisions and deliver outcomes across the Group. They are designed to support stronger alignment across businesses, improve clarity of decision-making, and reinforce a focus on long-term performance and partnership.

The Values will also be embedded into leadership behaviours, development and everyday working practices across the organisation.

Why this matters for customers and partners

For customers, suppliers and partners, the refreshed Values are intended to strengthen the experience of working with Bibby by supporting:

• Clearer alignment across teams and businesses
• More effective collaboration and decision-making
• A stronger focus on long-term relationships and outcomes
• A more joined-up and responsive organisation

The Values are not a standalone initiative, but part of a practical framework that underpins how Bibby delivers on its commitments, supported by a set of common standards and behaviours.

A Group-wide foundation, delivered locally

While the Values are consistent across the Group, each business will bring them to life in its own context, reflecting the diversity of operations across Bibby’s subsidiaries.

This approach ensures a shared foundation, while enabling local ownership and relevance in day-to-day delivery.

Jonathan Lewis, Bibby Line Group CEO:

“Over the last few years, we’ve made real progress as a Group – becoming stronger, more resilient and better positioned for the future. But we know we can continue to improve.

“This work is about making it easier for our teams to work effectively together, stay focused on what matters, and deliver for our customers and partners.

“These refreshed Values reflect how we already operate at our best – and help us be more intentional and aligned in how we lead, decide and deliver across the Group. Ultimately, they will strengthen performance and support long-term success for everyone we work with.”

Find out more about Our Values here.