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Africa's largest sugar group
We serve and meet the dynamic needs of our consumers, customers, and stakeholders within our Thriving African Community.
Illovo Sugar Africa has transitioned into ABF Sugar which is a diversified sugar and sugar derived products division of Associated British Foods plc. We are proud to be one of the world's leading sugar businesses with sugar cane and sugar beet operations in Africa and Europe respectively, operating across 21 plants in 9 countries and employing approximately 35 000 people. Our reputation is built on delivering high-quality products and innovative solutions that meet the diverse needs of our customers and consumers.
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...
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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.