Company Information

Business Model & Strategy

Olam’s business today involves supplying food, feed and fibre to over 25,000 customers worldwide. Our value chain spans over 60 countries and includes farming, processing, ingredient manufacturing and distribution operations, as well as a sourcing network of an estimated 5 million farmers. Olam’s business model is based on four elements which set our future direction.

Shareholding Structure

Olam was established in 1989 by the Kewalram Chanrai Group (KC Group), one of the oldest international companies in Africa and Asia with more than 150 years of trading history. Over the past 30 years, Olam has developed into a global agri-business headquartered in Singapore with market leadership positions in many of its businesses. Our success has enabled us to attract co-sponsors, strategic and long term investors, as well as world-class institutional investors, providing stability and business and financial strength to the Company.

Financials

Our Company reports our financial results quarterly and holds media and analyst meetings for these announcements. You can read about our reporting metrics, access our results webcasts, or check out our interactive financial analysis tool.

Governance

Olam is committed to observing high standards of corporate governance and harnessing these practices in keeping with its overarching philosophy of delivering sustainable, profitable growth and building capabilities with integrity. The Board constantly reviews the Company’s corporate governance practices and seeks to align its practices with the Code of Corporate Governance. Sustainability and stakeholder engagement remain our core focus.

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News from around the group

3^rd Jul, 2020

Press release

Sustainable cashew: Working with farmers the co-operative way

On this year’s International Day of Cooperatives, Mallikarjuna Kumaraswamy, Vice President for OIam’s cashew business explains 3 ways the cooperative model is helping reimagine sustainable cashew supply chains We source much of our cashew from 100 partner co-ops across rural Africa and Asia, representing over 50,000 smallholder farmers who rely on it as a source of income and food security. They afford the farmers access to information, inputs, credit and markets, allowing them to produce more and better quality through the power of the collective. For partners like Olam in the nut sector, they offer a resilient and sustainable sourcing model for our various cashew nuts and butters to satisfy the growing trend in conscious and healthy snacking. Leaving no one behind For all our boots on the ground, Olam’s 109 agronomists and extension workers can’t reach the millions of cashew smallholders in rural communities. In Africa, they sell their raw cashew to a complex network of local trad

20^th Jun, 2020

News

Minutes of the 25th Annual General Meeting

Please refer to the attachment. 20 Jun 2020 - Olam Minutes of AGM FY2019

2^nd Jul, 2020

Blog

Educating children on COVID-19 prevention and child labour in Côte d’Ivoire

Recently, children in the cocoa growing communities we work with in Côte d’Ivoire came together to celebrate the International Day of the African Child, which raises awareness of the challenges children face in Africa, with a focus on improving access to quality education. During the pandemic, this message is more vital than ever. Schools were closed to slow the spread of the virus, disrupting children’s learning and increasing the risk of child labour as they were kept home on family farms at a time when it was hard for farmers to employ other labour. So, as pupils returned to school, we partnered with the Dominique Ouattara School Complex, constructed in 2015 through funds from Olam Cocoa, to teach them about COVID-19 prevention, boost their enthusiasm for education and learning, and show we cannot let the pandemic damage children’s futures through increased risk of child labour. Over the course of the day, the pupils were visited by an award-winning youth theatre group who perfor

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