Our purpose

The impacts of our purpose-led strategy, social responsibility and sustainability for Africa's wellbeing are substantial: we connect Africa and the world – and improve people's lives with access to quality products and services.

We can demonstrate that we are more than a business that strives for sustainable revenue, profits and targeted returns for our shareholders. Our strong focus on people, planet and profit is evident in the real difference we are making to Africa and her people. Through our solutions and contributions, we support the lives and livelihoods, and the aspirations for a better future of millions of people in our countries of operation.

Positioning Imperial for long-term value creation

Our ability to build, acquire and integrate businesses in some of the fastest growing and most challenging markets in Africa, as well as our leading positions as a strategic, integrated market access and logistics solutions partner to multinational and regional clients, principals and customers, is a key differentiator for Imperial.

We continue to record significant progress in our strategic journey to transform from a portfolio of regional businesses to an integrated, end-to-end market access and logistics business – with the strategic intent of becoming 'One Imperial' and a 'Gateway to Africa'. We are evolving from an asset-heavy, third-party logistics (3PL) player to an innovative, asset-right business, with diverse and highly skilled executive management teams and engaged and capable people. Top of mind is to ensure that Imperial remains a business of scale and that both organic and acquisitive growth are prioritised.

We seek to grow organically and through strategic acquisitions in Africa and other selected markets, to remain a business of scale that unlocks and grows value for our clients, principals, customers, shareholders and other stakeholders; even as we dispose of assets and restructure the group to align our assets, organisational design, processes and culture to our strategy. To leverage our expertise and experience on the continent, become a more client-centric organisation and position ourselves for the future – in full view of the unique risks and opportunities that Africa presents – our service offering focuses on combining our specialist capabilities with new technologies to deliver integrated and innovative solutions across our networks and regions in our chosen industries.

During the past 12 to 18 months, the strategic decisions and actions we have taken to reorganise, rationalise, simplify and improve our profitability and competitiveness, strengthen our balance sheet and grow our business has resulted in significant value being unlocked for our key stakeholders. The strategic progress we have achieved despite the challenges that COVID-19 placed on our day-to-day operations, and our resilient performance, is evidence that we are well positioned in the right markets and industries; and that we stand to benefit from the realisation, crystallised by the pandemic, of how critical uninterrupted supply chains are; and how important it is to ensure they are resilient, optimal and visible across industry value chains.