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sure they’re very comfortable with their role. “We have a strong culture where everyone in the business is empow- ered with different responsibilities, and everyone’s opinion matters,” ex- plains Coulson This connected, familial spirit stems from how the business started - a fair- ly small group of investors intermin- gled with a lot of family relationships. “Our aim was to operate the business with family values front of mind.” Sustainability and outreach Being a fairly small business, AUS- PODS can thankfully have a fairly sig- nificant control over its carbon foot- print. It always considers energy efficiency in its vehicles purchases, whilst incentivising its drivers to cut their usage by giving them rewards for their accountability rather sim- ply telling them what they need to do and hoping for the best. Coulson de- scribes the company’s approach: “We’ve been pretty militant in keep-