VLS's Mission

Our mission is to be the company focused on opportunities for growth and enrichment to our employees, our business partners and the communities in which we operate. And in everything we do, we strive to act with honesty, fairness and integrity.

VLS Values – Our commitment – What we stand for; the core values we are committed to support

Sustained Growth is fundamental to motivating and measuring our success. Our quest for sustained growth stimulates innovation, places a value on results, and helps us understand whether actions today will contribute to our future. It is about growth of people and company performance. It prioritizes making a difference and getting things done.

Empowered People means we have the freedom to act and think in ways that we feel will get the job done, while being consistent with the processes that ensure proper governance and being mindful of the rest of the company’s needs.

Responsibility and Trust form the foundation for healthy growth. It’s about earning the confidence that other people place in us as individuals and as a company. Our responsibility means we take care of personal and corporate ownership for all we do, to be good stewards of the resources entrusted to us. We build trust between ourselves and others by walking the talk and being committed to succeeding together.

OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES – How we carry out our commitment – We must always strive to:

Care for customers and the world we live in. We are driven by an intense, competitive spirit, but we direct this spirit toward solutions that achieve a win for each of our constituents as well as a win for us. Our success depends on a thorough understanding of our customers. Caring, also means going the extra mile for them. Essentially this is a spirit of growing rather than taking.

Speak with truth and candor. We speak up, telling the whole picture, not just what is convenient to achieving individual goals. In addition to being clear, honest and accurate, we take responsibility to ensure our communications are understood.

Balance short term and long term. We make decisions that hold both short-term and long-term risks and benefits in balance over time. Without this balance, we cannot achieve the goal of sustainable growth.

Win with diversity and inclusion. We leverage a work environment that embraces people with diverse traits and different ways of thinking. This leads to innovation, the ability to identify new opportunities, all of which helps VLS develop and drives our ability to sustain our commitments to growth through empowered people.

Respect others and succeed together. This company is built on individual excellence and personal accountability, but no one can achieve our goals by acting alone. We need great people who also have the capability of working together, whether in structured teams or informal collaboration. Mutual success is absolutely dependent on treating everyone who touches the business with respect, inside and outside the company. A spirit of fun, our respect for others and the value we put on teamwork make us a company people enjoy being a part of, and this enables us to deliver world-class performance.