We aim to provide a safe and healthy workplace with equal opportunities conducive to learning and personal development. We want our employees to be proud Bidvest ambassadors.

Employees (%)

• 

  Growth enables us to
  create employment

  Total spend on
  skills development
  amounted to
  R602m

• 

  6
  workplace
  fatalities and

  3
  security guards
  killed in line of duty
  in 2018
  

• We are also able to
  cultivate the new
  generation of future
  Bidvest employees
  through the awarding of

  7 485
  learnerships

• 

  4 503
  learnerships were
  issued to unemployed
  learners and

  657
  learners
  were employed
  subsequently

We are involved in community development that enhances education, health, economic inclusion and diversity. Investing in communities and human capital, affords us the opportunity to operate, do business in and draw skills from the communities in which we operate.

• 

  Total socio-economic
  development spend of

  R56m

  with 49% going towards
  education

  
  

• Empower local business
  through outsourcing
  key services to local
  SMMEs

• 

  R61m
  spend on sports
  development

We focus on energy and water efficiency, responsible waste management and offering innovative solutions to aid customer sustainability. In FY19 we will continue our initiatives to improve water use; accelerate renewable energy installations and responsible waste management.

• Our business growth has
  not increased our
  environmental impact

• 

  We emitted low carbon
  emissions. Scope 1
  emissions reduced by
  19%

• 

  We used

  2 095

  mega-litres of water,
  13% less than last year

• We recycled

  6 500 tonnes

  of hazardous waste and
  treated more than

  400 000 kl

  of wastewater