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In spite of a number of financial and strategic challenges in our
markets, 2006 was a successful year. Net profit increased by 13%,
which means that once again we achieved our target of 12%.
At least as important is the fact that customer satisfaction improved
further. We acquired a number of prominent companies and
participations abroad, thus furthering our ambition of becoming a
leading global food agri bank.
Good year with leading initiatives
I would like to draw your attention the theme 'Leading'
of our beautiful Annual Report for 2006. As you know,
Rabobank has three hard and fast core values: near-
you, committed and leading. Many of our social
responsibility initiatives may justifiably be called
leading. Last year too, a large number of projects
were started, both on a local and on a national level.
A selection of these projects can be found throughout
4 Rabobank Group Annual Report 2006
