Symantec 2009 Annual Report Download - page 5

We made strong progress in all of our focus areas this past year. We cut our greenhouse gas
emissions resulting from energy consumption by 8% from our FY08 baseline, demonstrating significant
progress towards our reduction goal of 15% by FY12. We did this while launching new products and
services to help our customers cut their own energy use and emissions. We joined the Business for
Innovative Climate and Energy Policy (BICEP) group, which works to promote meaningful U.S. Federal
energy and climate change legislation and reiterated our support for the Ten Principles of the United
Nations Global Compact. We released an innovative new offering, OnlineFamily.Norton, a first-of-its-
kind web-based service that allows parents to monitor their children’s online activity. And, we are
introducing new privacy safeguards to ensure that we continue to meet the increasing expectations of
our stakeholders.
POSITIONED FOR SUCCESS
Symantec holds the leading position in the markets in which we operate and customers see the
value of our broad portfolio of products and services. Gaining market share is important, however,
because that means that we are solving customer problems and beating the competition. In addition
to our core focus areas, we will not lose sight of improving execution, strengthening customer and
partner loyalty, and becoming more operationally efficient. We will focus on better understanding our
customers’ businesses, exercising careful cost discipline, and executing against our business model.
We’ve got a strong balance sheet, a recurring revenue model and low capital expenditure
requirements, which position us well for long-term success.
Symantec is on its way to building a culture of accountability and execution. We have a strong
brand and an increasingly loyal customer base that wants to see Symantec win. We will make every
effort to live up to our commitments to our valued customers, partners, employees, and shareholders.
I look forward to winning in the marketplace and sharing many of our accomplishments with you.
Sincerely,
ENRIQUE SALEM
President and Chief Executive Officer
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENT: This annual report contains forward-looking statements, which are
subject to safe harbors under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act, and the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act. Forward-looking statements including words such as
“expects,” “plans,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “predicts,” “projects,” and similar expressions. State-
ments that refer to projections of our future financial performance, anticipated growth and trends in our
businesses, our products and our industries, market share gains, the anticipated impacts of acquisitions, and other
characterizations of future events or circumstances are forward-looking statements. These statements are only
predictions, based on our current expectations about future events and may not prove to be accurate. We do not
undertake any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect events occurring or circumstances
arising after the date of this report. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, and our
actual results, performance, or achievements could differ materially from those expressed or implied by the
forward-looking statements on the basis of several factors, including those that we discuss under Item 1A, Risk
Factors of the 10-K. We encourage you to read that section carefully.
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