Vision
Mpact’s vision is to be a leading packaging business with the highest ethical standards, delivering exceptional value for customers, employees, communities and shareholders.
Building a sustainable business and contributing to society through innovation.
Mpact is committed to:
- Acting as a responsible employer and corporate citizen and managing natural resources with care, sensitivity and expertise.
- Meeting and exceeding customers’ requirements for product and service quality, innovation as well as cost competitiveness.
- Providing a safe and secure working environment in which employees can fulfil their ambitions and aspire to continually improve their circumstances.
- Achieving sustainable, profitable growth through a focus on business excellence and strategic expansion in chosen markets.
Values
At Mpact we are differentiated by our people who are:
Trustworthy
- Ethical.
- Transparent.
- Honouring commitments.
Resolute
- Setting and achieving challenging targets.
- Continuously identifying innovative ways to do things.
- Accountable, especially in the face of adversity.
Responsible
- Taking care of their safety, health and personal development as well as that of their colleagues.
- Striving to meet or exceed our customers’ requirements (internal and external) for product quality, excellent service and cost competitiveness.
- Treating our natural resources with care and sensitivity.
- Doing what it takes to ethically deliver competitive sustainable returns to our shareholders.
Strategy and objectives
Mpact’s strategy aims to create value for stakeholders over the long term.
The core pillars of our strategy are:
Customer focused
Decentralised structure
- Customer-centric
- Responsive
- Accountable
- Flexible
- Effectively execute differing strategies or even hybrids across business units
Innovation and capability
- Applied to products and processes internally and externally
- Use of own R&D capabilities where feasible
- Investing to meet new and emerging demands of customers with good returns
Intimate understanding of the value chain
- Engage customers and other stakeholders to improve supply chain efficiency and anticipate changing requirements
- Engaging with product specification bodies, marketing and branding teams, key distribution networks
- Make partnerships work
Leading market positions
Scale
- Maintain leading market positions in chosen geographies with scale to enable competitiveness at a decentralised level
- May consider entry below leading market position but always considering sectors where there is potential to lead in future
Capability
- Invest in sectors where Mpact has sustainable competitive advantages or at least has the prospect of developing them
Products and geographies
- Rigid plastics and paper-based packaging in sub-Saharan Africa
Focus on performance
Financial returns
- Financial returns
- ROCE and profitable growth
- Disciplined capital allocation and spending
- Reinvestment and capital allocation based on
- track record
- Stringent and continuous cost management
- Long-term view of investments
- Effective risk management and governance
- Cash generation
Skilled and motivated people
- Skilled and motivated people
- Invest in support of management with a track record
- Reward performance and results and appreciate effort
- Commit resources to proactive training and development of our people
- Resilient health and safety culture
Sustainable practices
- Responsible environmental management
- Contributing to social upliftment in the areas in which we operate
- Rigorously pursue the highest ethical standards in governance