Promoting growth of historically disadvantaged individuals
Promoting and enhancing equitable representation at senior and executive levels
Increasing procurement from black-empowered or black-owned businesses/enterprises
Implementing training to inspire and empower our staff and supplier base to ensure sustainability
Transformation milestones:
Implementing the BEE Charter:
Ownership – 42% of our entire workforce now hold 56 268 800 share options in the Group. This year
16 755 800 share options were granted to 3 085 employees and 4 002 300 share options were taken up by
1 143 employees
Employment equity – Annual employment equity targets are reviewed in October, in line with the
Department of Labour. To date we have exceeded most of our 2009 employment equity targets (see chart)
Management – 652 trainee managers, including 19 trainee managers who are midway through our
two-year Retail Academy programme aimed at developing future management. We launched a female
mentorship programme in the Western Cape and are rolling out the initiative in all other regions
Skills development – Significantly increased our level of expenditure on training and development, notably
investment in our assessment centres and our Franchise Academy to develop black entrepreneurs as store
owners. Regional training expenditure increased 6% and management participation in training and
development increased 25%. We completed our project in partnership with the Wholesale and Retail Skills
Education Training Authorities (SETA) to develop skills that are considered scarce: 181 learnerships completed
Preferential procurement – We launched an exciting campaign, “Shelf Life”, in partnership with the
Sunday Times, aimed at developing and enlisting small consumer-goods manufacturers as our suppliers.
We provided free workshops to around 350 small enterprises to develop their business skills as sustainable,
reliable suppliers and an ongoing mentorship programme has been created
Enterprise development – Over R10 million has been allocated over the last year towards enterprise
development projects in the training and manufacturing communities to increase the supplier base to
our emerging stores from local projects. The aim is to develop sustainable suppliers of goods and services
to our business
Implementation of BEE codes of good practice as laid down by the DTI
Employment equity targets by occupational levels (%)
