 | End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture |
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All of our staff and many of our staff families are given access to medical facilities provided either by on-site Providence Health clinics or through medical aid schemes.
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IAL is a manufacturer of consumer staple goods for the mass market.
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The businesses within the Group produce various food types at prices that ensure affordable nutrition.
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The Group supports vulnerable groups within the communities it operates by giving food donations. In F2024 the businesses spent a total of USD 874 932 on food donations to vulnerable groups such as children’s homes, orphanages and retirement homes.
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The Group provides support to local farmers through contract farming to maximise food production.
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 | Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. |
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All of our staff and their dependents are given access to medical facilities through Providence Health's – onsite clinics or visiting a Providence clinic around the country.
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Operations located in farming communities, provide assistance to families and dependents of staff members with access to health care.
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In F2024 Innscor in partnership with the Global Cleft & Cranio-facial Foundation and Providence Health helped change lives of families with children born with cleft lip and/or palate. Over the year, the partnership spent USD 56 171 on three sessions.
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 | Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. |
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Through our internship programmes, training sessions for small-scale farmers, continual improvement training and courses for our staff, the Group aims to improve not only our productivity and sustainability, but ensure those in our sphere of influence are positively impacted by our operations.
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Operations of our Group located in farming communities, provide assistance where possible to ensure families of staff members have access to education by providing transport and assisting with paying school fees.
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The Group supports a number of schools across the country through the construction or renovation of school buildings, providing learning material, food donations and sporting equipment.
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The Group avails its manpower and financial resources to educate and upskill the community through student and graduate traineeships, attachments and apprenticeships in various fields of study.
- In F2024 181 students were offered placements of which 39% were to female students.
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 | Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. |
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Reducing water usage is a key priority for the Group with businesses monitoring their water usage and implementing water savings schemes wherever possible.
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Clean potable water provision is a priority at all our facilities with regular inspections to ensure the health of our workers is not compromised.
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Effluent monitoring and management is being performed to ensure our facilities do not contaminate clean water systems.
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 | Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all. |
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Our policy is to minimise energy usage wherever possible.
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Through detailed monitoring and reporting systems, the Group is developing energy saving strategies.
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We aim to use the most energy efficient and newest technologies for our expansion projects with energy efficiency being a major contributing factor to our equipment selection.
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The Group is in the process of investing in a total of 4.41 MWh solar facilities at three sites – National Foods, Colcom and AMP’s Zimnyama Abattoir.
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 | Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all. |
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With economic growth being key to our expansion and investment goals, we aim to improve not only the quality of life for those directly in the employment of the Group, but also through the implementation of procurement systems, improve the job quality, lifestyles and sustainability of our wider sphere of influence, also involving a progressive move to inclusive business.
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In F2024, 61% of the Group’s procurement budget was spent on locally sourced materials.
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 | Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss. |
- Through our contract farming schemes, outgrower programmes, and training sessions run by our agricultural sections, we aim to educate and positively influence farmers to protect biodiversity wherever possible, by protecting natural woodlands, wetlands, rivers and dams.
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 | Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels. |
- The Group’s corporate governance policies and procedures are designed to ensure accountability at all levels within our businesses
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