Aprio Group Factsheet 2020

WE FOCUS ON MULTI-STAKEHOLDER COMMUNICATION AND REPUTATIONAL ENHANCEMENT CAMPAIGNS FOR

CORPORATE AND OTHER CLIENTS

DEVELOPING YOUR MULTI-STAKEHOLDER COMMUNICATIONS PROGRAMMES IN six STEPS

Aprio provides advice and guidance on multi-stakeholder engagements, and specific corporate action events. We offer strategic communication expertise across a broad spectrum of client sectors.

The Group has a team of highly experienced specialists, based in Johannesburg and Cape Town, who have the expertise to support a broad offering of communication requirements.

The Group has well-established relationships with the media, the broader investment community, including sell and buy-side analysts.

APRIO IS AN INDEPENDENT, 100% SOUTH AFRICAN-OWNED COMPANY

Aprio has exceptional credentials across a range of learning and development programmes for executives and communication specialists.

Principal trainer Alan Arguile has delivered more than 1,200 skills development interventions across Africa, and every training programme we present is designed specifically to meet your organisational goals.

Our stress-tested coaching and development solutions extend across a wide range of communication disciplines, including:

- MEDIA TRAINING- PRESENTATION & COMMUNICATION SKILLS TRAINING- CRISIS & ISSUE MANAGEMENT TRAINING- COMMUNICATION PRACTITIONER TRAINING- STORYTELLING FOR LEADERSHIP- INVESTOR RELATIONS TRAINING

Aprio Investor Relations (AprioIR) helps you clarify your investment case, tell your story and attain a fair market valuation.

The market rewards effective communication, visibility and transparency in the long run. investor relations, done right, bridges the gap between capital allocation today and the creation of long-term value. Aprio IR has the tested, multi-sectoral expertise to help you concisely communicate your story, clarify the investment case and close the perception gap in order to attain a fair market valuation.

But communicating effectively to the market is only half the task. Aprio IR closes the circle, providing analytical insights back to the boardroom, allowing for better, informed decision making. Whether you need a full-service investor relations programme, or project-based work that will help inform board deliberations, we will tailor-make the most effective solution for your business objectives.

Aprio Credence provides crisis communications and reputation management for the world’s leading companies.

We live in a highly volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous and connected world. Crises develop more rapidly, and can have a more profound effect, than ever before. To protect your most valuable strategic asset – your reputation – you need trustworthy counsel with clear perspectives, decisive analysis, sound judgement and most importantly, unparalleled experience.

Aprio Credence provides strategic counsel, skills development and world-class implementation of corporate and brand communication and crisis-management solutions to an unrivalled client list including JSE Top 40 companies, Fortune 500 global giants, and professional advisory firms.

1 WHO 2 3 4 5 6APRIO’S SIX STEP APPROACH WHAT OBJECTIVES MESSAGE TACTICS

OUR OFFERING:

EVALUATION

Aprio Digital, a division of the Aprio Group, enhances your corporate reputation through the creation, distribution and monitoring of digital content in a strategically considered, coherent and consistent way.

Aprio Digital’s team of internal writers and designers is experienced at creating content that aligns to your overall objectives and intentions. This content is delivered via the most appropriate and effective digital platforms to enable you to effectively deliver against your reputational objectives.

TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT

KEY HIGHLIGHTS

employee and community engagement

Barclays Africa following the decision by Barclay’s PLC to sell down its stake. Aprio also advised Old Mutual PLC with its managed separation announcements, and Quilter on its JSE listing.

aprio consulted to:

RCL FOODS, Bidvest, Aveng, Implats, Pan African Resources, Edcon, Netcare, Dis-Chem, ArcelorMittal and Long4Life, amongst others, on investor and media communications campaigns.

aprio strategically advises:

Netcare following its decision to exit the United Kingdom.

aprio supported and implemented:

Total South Africa’s media relations campaigns, which was awarded the 2014 AAA Visibility Award.

Xstrata with its media engagement during the proposed merger with Anglo American as well as the successful merger with Glencore.

aprio assisted:

aprio guided:RCL FOODS on its Listeriosis campaign.

aprio provides ongoing media liaison:

to Bidvest for its corporate actions and financial results (including its Integrated Annual Report).

Aprio is involved with the strategic definition, planning and implementation of numerous employee and community engagement programmes.

These are being done for corporations that might employ a few hundred, to companies employing many thousands of people spread across a diverse geographic base. Each process starts with ensuring a clear objective and/or several key goals that the company wishes to achieve over the allocated time span of the strategy.

Aprio’s communications approach is focused on the improvement of internal and community communication mechanisms - from planning and defining the various channels that can be used, to the way in which the engagement takes place and, critically, including a feedback process.

aprio advised and guided communication:

for the JSE listings of MultiChoice, Cartrack, Equites Property Fund, Quilter, Orion Minerals, Dis-Chem, Long4Life and Bidcorp, amongst others.

to reinforce ABSA’s credibility amingst its stakeholders on the African continent.

aprio provides a communication platform:

and provided full communication support:

to Netcare, Implats, Edcon, Long4Life and others, and assisted with media advice during various capital raising initiatives and corporate transactions.

Associated British Foods on its successful acquisition of Illovo Sugar.

Walmart and Starbucks on their respective entries into South Africa.

CONTACT APRIOOxford Corner 32, Jellicoe Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg, South Africa | 011 880 0037www.aprio.co.za

Aprio Group Factsheet 2020