Foundations for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation

To achieve tangible, sustainable, and measurable socio-economic transformation, we focus on four key pillars:

Growing our people,
Supplier development,
Socio-economic development, and
Enterprise development.

We prioritise these pillars across all our sustainable business locations to ensure long-term financial and social sustainability for our communities and stakeholders.

Growing our people

Our training program provide us with an integrated service that includes compiling operational training plans via training needs analysis, compiling of workplace skills plans, Skills development facilitation including application for Mandatory and Discretionary grants.

It outlines an action plan to develop our staff in a working environment that values diversity and in which all employees are encouraged to realise their full potential and contribute to business success.

MTO employees at conference centre for training program

Supplier Development

Supplier Development refers to small businesses that already exist within our value chain that meet the B-BBEE criteria. Our approach is to select businesses within our value chain that meet our selection criteria.

A significant portion of these businesses are in the harvesting, silviculture, transport industries, and other core services to our business.

Enterprise Development

We identify and recruit enterprises, entrepreneurs for opportunities that exist outside of our direct value chain that can contribute to our primary value chain. We provide the necessary development support and training to educate and upskill aspiring entrepreneurs so that they are ready to explore and take opportunities outside and within our value chain e.g. food security, education, health, etc.

Socio Economic Development

To ensure a sizeable sustainable impact on communities in and around our sustainable businesses, the initiatives we embark upon primarily focus on access to education, affordable healthcare, and food security.

We are a B-BBEE Level 1 Contributor

We are proud to announce that MTO has achieved Level 1 B-BBEE contributor status, a testament to our commitment to holistic transformation and sustainable growth.

This milestone reflects our dedication to Growing Our People, Enterprise & Supplier Development, and Socio-Economic Development — key pillars that drive meaningful change across our business and communities.

B-BBEE Certificate