Transformation

In South Africa, Tiger Brands promotes social transformation in the interest of nation building, most notably through the continued advancement of B-BBEE initiatives. We regard compliance with B-BBEE and employment equity legislation as a business imperative and our B-BBEE data and reporting is independently assured by EmpowerLogic. The company retained a Level 3 contributor rating for the year, as set out below.

Tiger Brands B-BBEE scorecard

	Available points 2014*	2014	2013	Available points pre- 2013	2012	2011	2010
Ownership	20	20,3	19,7	20	19,7	18,4	19,7
Management control	10	7,6	7,6	10	6,5	6,5	9,6
Employment equity	10	5,6	5,1	15	7,5	9,6	9,1
Skills development	20	12,9	11,2	15	8,1	9,1	9,5
Preferential procurement	20	19,2	18,8	20	18,8	18,8	18,8
Enterprise development	10	7,0	7,5	15	11,7	10,3	10,1
Socio-economic development	10	10,0	10,0	5	5,0	5,0	5,0
Total	100	82,6	79,9	100	77,3	77,7	81,8
Level		3	3		3	3	3

*	Tiger Brands is now measured in terms of the Agriculture Sector codes as gazetted on 28 December 2012

Ownership

Brimstone (a black empowermentinvestment company)	1,0%
Tiger Brands Foundation	5,0%
Employees Black Managers Trust	4,0%
General Staff Trust	0,5%
Thusani Trust (beneficiaries are children of black employees)	1,8%
Effective black ownership (using the exclusion principle)	25,5%
Total black women	4,3%

Management control

Tiger Brands’ board includes five black directors (as defined by the B-BBEE codes) one of whom is female. Management control is driven at a group level by the board and Chief Executive Officer.

Employment equity

In South Africa, 91% of our employees are black (African, Indian and coloured), of which 29% are women, and 1% are disabled.

Tiger Brands’ workforce profile

									Outside South Africa
	African	Indian	Coloured	White	Disabled	Permanent	Temporary	Total	Permanent	Temporary	Total staff
2014	6 535	726	1 155	836	58	9 252	2 453	11 705	3 673	1 506	16 884
2013	6 178	739	1 192	881	68	8 990	1 500	10 490	3 770	788	15 048
2012	6 260	777	1 027	938	76	9 002	1 079	10 081	1 876	782	12 739
2011	6 172	769	1 067	996	74	9 004	990	9 994	1 751	1 149	12 894

International employees are accounted for only where Tiger Brands is the majority shareholder.

Tiger Brands remains committed to growing its black management talent pool. We realise that achieving employment equity is a long-term challenge and therefore invest in the junior and middle management levels in order to develop a pipeline of future black leaders at the senior and executive level.

Skills development

See “Our people”. See page 115.

Preferential procurement

Tiger Brands procures agricultural commodities, ingredients, packaging, consumables and services totalling R11,5 billion from B-BBEE suppliers. Preferential procurement is embedded in our sourcing process and the development and support of B-BBEE suppliers remains a key element of our procurement strategy. We remain focused on supporting small and medium black-owned businesses especially in our core spend. We regard this as a business imperative which in the longer term will contribute to a vibrant and competitive supply landscape in South Africa.

Enterprise development

Tiger Brands drives enterprise development projects across its value chain with an emphasis on growing small businesses which we can support over the longer term. Whilst the financial support of R28,5 million is a cornerstone of our contribution, the sustainability of these initiatives is driven by committing the specialist support of our staff to mentor and up-skill small businesses where required.

Corporate social investment

See “Our communities”. See page 119.