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Nuturing a Sweet Commitment to People and Planet

We serve and meet the dynamic needs of or consumers, customers, and stakeholders within our Thriving African Community.

Who Are We?

ILLOVO SUGAR (SOUTH AFRICA) (Pty) Ltd (Illovo SA) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Associated British Foods, with its operations including the cultivation of sugar cane and production of raw, brown, and refined sugar, syrup.

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12,043

Total Growers

5.2M

Tons crushing capacity

19,885

Total Jobs in Country

25%

Market Share

Our Vision:

To become the leading sugar and value-added products business in South Africa, contributing to the socio-economic development of our communities whilst delivering value for our customers and stakeholders.

Market

Collectively represents the African melting pot of vibrant markets across the continent – where we, together with the produce and manufactured goods derived from our Thriving Community - consistently serve our customers and consumers quality products in the format they require and at the price they can afford.

Community

Collaborative and cooperative stimulation of economic activity, hand-in-hand with the people, civic structures and governments of our local communities, strengthens the growth and development of African nations.

Industry

Building on our 135-year success in sugar and downstream product manufacture on the African continent, while actively encouraging innovative commercial community opportunities aligned to our core expertise, is a powerful combination invited by Africa’s governments to unlock national growth in the countries in which our businesses operate.

Agriculture

Creating value from local agricultural resources in a responsible, sustainable manner provides the opportunity for multiple stakeholders to share in the beneficial outcomes of commercially orientated community projects. Through Illovo’s transfer of knowledge and its ability to facilitate community access to scarce resources, sugarcane becomes one of many agricultural crops contributing to rural economic growth.

RESPONDING TO CLIMATE CHANGE...

We strive to build a sustainable future for our communities, businesses, customers and employees. To help us achieve this, we have transitioned to validated science based emission reduction targets...

OUR PURPOSE

ILLOVO IMPACTING LIVES

Committed to serving our customers’ and consumers’ needs through our deep commercial and ‘route to market’ insights in Africa, expert sales and operations planning and a world-class logistics team.

Focussed on diversification opportunities to widen our new business growth pipeline and grow our downstream value.

Co-generates electricity from renewable resources at our sugar factories to cater for almost all of our

own power needs and in some locations, exports power to national grids in the countries where we operate on a commercial basis.

In the latest independent environmental, social and economic study undertaken in the 2020/21 financial year, it was estimated that Illovo’s total economic impact across its six countries of operation stood at R28.6 billion.