Minister of Labour Awards Imperial Logistics

Imperial Holdings’ wholly owned Logistics division recently received an award for Good Practice in Skills Development from the Minister of Labour, Membathisi Mdladlana. Imperial Logistics was one of eighteen recipients and the only achiever in the Logistics and Supply Chain Management Sector.

“We believe that by investing in our people and their careers, not only do we enhance the skills level in our company, we create a future and together we grow,” says Marius Swanepoel, Chief Executive Officer, Imperial Logistics. “Through our focused skills development programmes we strive to attract the most suitable employee candidates, fully equip our employees to grow and develop our business, whilst creating value and confidence for our customers. In the past year, we have had 6,500 individual training interventions, of which 80% were directed at black learners.”

Imperial Logistics views skills development as part of doing business and believes that large corporations in South Africa should assist government in providing relevant skills that have long-term benefits for the country.

Imperial Logistics provides continuous learning opportunities and access to knowledge through management and leadership programmes, graduate internship programmes, learnerships, apprenticeships, bursaries, on-the-job training and programmes bridging the gap between education and skills development, in partnership with internationally acclaimed academic and research institutions.

Imperial Logistics’ skills development initiatives have a particular focus on historically disadvantaged employees.

The Department of Labour’s National Skills Development Good Practice Awards aim to showcase best practice, enabling organisations to benchmark themselves and encouraging industry to raise the bar in the training and people development arena.

Imperial Logistics also won the National Logistics Award in May this year.