4.0 - Imperial

company Overview
Chairman’s report
ceo’s report
Operational reviews
financial Directors Report
Sustainability report
corporate governance
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Financial Statements
Contents
Remembering our past 1
Financial and operational features 5
Group at a glance 6
Directors and executive committee 8
Chairman’s report 10
Chief executive officer’s report 12
Divisional review 17
Financial director’s report 28
Ten-year review 32
Shareholders’ information 36
Declaration of dividends 38
Value-added statement 39
Sustainability 40
Corporate governance report 42
Annual financial statements 49
Annexure E – Summary of employment
equity report 144
Notice of annual general meeting 145
Corporate information 150
Form of proxy 151
The new corporate identity
Creating a bridge between our past and
our future
With Imperial’s continued growth in a global environment and with its
decentralised management structures, alliances and business activities, the
Imperial brand name is the most significant spiritual and cultural glue unifying
the wider group.
In this spirit, the Imperial group evolved its identity to express its
business strategies with a clearer sense of energy and dynamism, and to
convey the wide range of services provided. The new corporate
identity is intended to address the successful branding of individual
businesses which may not have clear links to the group.
The brand architecture therefore allows for the combination of proven
brands with the new brand identity.
Through its revitalised colours and dynamic movement, the new brand
identity icon – The Spirit of Entrepreneurship – heralds a new beginning,
linking Imperial’s past with its future.