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Sustainability roadmap
In 2010, the board approved an all-encompassing sustainability roadmap which outlines the way forward regarding mobilisation, measurement, reporting and communication across the four key sustainability focus areas.
Performance against previous commitments
| Management commitment | Delivery to date | |
| Invest in our people and their development |
Investment in training and development – R175 million (2012: R171 million). Expanded our artisan and technician training centres to include two new facilities, which increases our annual training capacity to 1 400 artisans. Our Car Rental division also opened its new Europcar Learning Centre, which will continue hosting the training of its employees in this state-of-the-art facility. |
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| Ongoing focus on reducing our environmental impact |
We have commissioned 67 waterless car wash facilities in our dealerships, and have installed 25 water recycling facilities which have significantly reduced the amount of water used to wash our cars and trucks. We built the first solar-powered Kia dealership in the world here in South Africa. We built an environmentally friendly state-of-the art UD Trucks dealership in Petoria. A number of businesses continued to implement energy and water-saving initiatives during the year, including the installation of energy-efficient lighting, dust and noise pollution reduction measures and water treatment and recycling projects. |
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| Focus on road safety | We have over 135 000 individuals committed to being part of a movement towards safer roads in South Africa by taking the Imperial I-Pledge as part of our group’s extensive road safety campaign. We continued to partner with toll concessionaires during the holiday season by putting at their disposal nine vehicles primarily to bolster route surveillance, patrol support and post-crash care activities. The Scholar Patrol Improvement Project is training educators and scholar patrollers, road markings are being refurbished and signage erected, and we donate scholar patrol equipment and high-visibility bibs and caps. The scholar patrol initiative has to date refurbished equipment for 197 school scholar patrols and reached over 135 000 primary school learners in road safety awareness. |
Key developments in our sustainability journey
Plans for the year ahead
Our sustainability management and reporting system has now been bedded down and we have reliable data to use as baselines going forward.
In the year ahead we plan to identify reduction targets relating to our key impacts on a divisional basis focusing on the following key areas:
| – | Energy consumption; |
| – | Fuel; and |
| – | Water. |
