BARLOWORLD
BARLOWORLD MBEWU PERPETUATES THE GROUP’S LEGACY OF POSITIVELY IMPACTING THE COMMUNITIES IN WHICH IT OPERATES
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arloworld has a prodigious 120-year history of inspiring a ‘World of Difference’. Our uncompromising commitment to active corporate citizenship and enabling growth and progress through strategic socioeconomic development programmes, culminated in the establishment of Barloworld Mbewu in 2019. This innovative flagship programme is designed to provide tailored support to start-up social enterprises, established social businesses, as well as organisations that exist to solve
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Municipal Focus
local socio-economic challenges through the implementation of sound business practice. We believe strongly that our investment in these social enterprises are investments in the future, as they serve to build resilient communities. Barloworld Mbewu is premised on the creation of a well-articulated social equity story; collaboration on key social impact initiatives within the business value chain; partnering with key stakeholders and social partners on key projects; thought
leadership, community stakeholder engagement and implementing employee volunteer engagement initiatives. At the launch of the initiative, Barloworld Group CEO, Dominic Sewela, highlighted that Barloworld's strategy takes a focused approach to long-term value creation for all its stakeholders, and as such, Mbewu is completely aligned with the Group’s strategy, which is premised on the belief that the growth of the communities in which we operate is inextricably linked to the growth of the business.
