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Pick N Pay Case Study
Pick n Pay operates as a successful Public company
, people: the aim for CSR programmes is to enable South Africans to provide for themselves, improve their lives and to help the community. Pick n Pays mission in
CSR is to enhance and develop new skills and to support projects that helps and supports entrepreneurship and employment opportunities. Pick n Pays "key
Objectives" for CSR is "to make a meaningful and measurable contribution in the areas that we operate. To develop open and transparent partnerships and relationships with relevant organisations. http://www.picknpay.co.za/foundation-introduction Pick n Pay has a big influence in the development of business and CSR, quote from the Pick n pay website says "We believe that sustainable
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1) Denzhe Mukula garden project
Pick n Pay has a lot of interest with small businesses and tries to get involved with these projects and aim at people who they think those people might make a success off of something.. They give out financial support to projects that they inspect and look if there's any potential or growth in the business. In the Denzhe
Mukula garden project they were able to buy tools, fertiliser, seedlings, pump and more equipment to get the business going. They then had the best harvest ever thanks to Ndivhuwo Ramaliwa (the project manager for the Ackerman Pick n Pay foundation). They now supply to local markets and Thohoyandou Pick n
Pay Family Store. htt : www. ickn a .co.za article-detail denzhe-mukula- arden- ro.ect

5) Amata Trading Project
The trading project is to make then sell crops. Veronica Mathebula says that they have ongoing problems with theft where people steal their crops (rip it out of the ground). This project is located a few kilometres from the town of Giyani in
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After that (quote from Pick n Pays website)
The Foundation also introduced Vera to the buyer at Giyani's Pick n Pay Family
Store — increasing her reach to a bigger market." htt : www. ickn a .co.za article-detail amata-tradin ro.ect , planet: Pick n Pay tries to educate everyone about their waste. They are also using
Wind turbines (use of renewable energy) and worm farms (where they make compost from fruit and vegetable waste) this will help them decrease the waste and also reuse things that they were going to throw away.
Recycling Centre
Pick n Pays waste Management
1. Managing our own waste
2. Reducing packaging
3. Consumer recycling
Pick n Pay uses a lot of paper, Glass, Metal and Plastic for food packaging but is now trying to recycle more then what they use to, their aim is to reduce unnecessary packaging. They are trying to make it as easy as possible for people to recycle and has now installed recycling bins for people to throw their waste in for Pick n Pay to recycle http://www.picknpay.co.za/corporate pick n Pay has created Eco friendly bags for people to use and is actually made by people in a township and created Employment for more than 60 people that were
previously

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