Nampak strategy

Our strategy is developed to create and preserve value for stakeholders in the short, medium and long term.

Our group adopts economic profit as the foundational measure of value creation.

We are positioning Nampak to be a high-quality, market-leading packaging business with distinctive capabilities, operating in a defensive market segment with sustainable growth characteristics, underpinned by a blue-chip customer base.

What do we mean?

  • Metal focus

What do we mean?

  • Trade terms strategy
  • Optimal price, volume, margin and mix (PVM)
  • Leverage substrate growth
  • Invest for growth
  • Bolt-on capability — new product innovation and growth
  • Market share growth
  • Innovation and category thought leadership (collaborating with clients)
  • Service excellence
  • R&D technological advantage

What do we mean?

  • Limit all discretionary spending
  • Structural changes to manufacturing architecture
  • Efficiency extraction (manufacturing, working capital, logistics, IT)

What do we mean?

  • Customer obsession
  • Act like owners
  • Simplify inside, differentiate outside
  • Bias for action
  • Frugality

What do we mean?

  • Credible and trusted customer partnerships
  • Purveyor of highest quality offerings
  • Sustained earnings growth and ROIC > WACC
  • Employer of choice