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PRODUCTIONPRIMARY
Theewaterskloof EstateWestern Cape
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WHO ARE WE
Production Units15
Arable Land3 879 HAWater Rights3 550 HA
Land Owned10 054 HA
KEY STATISTICS
Established Orchards2 144 HAPermanent Employees500+Peak time Workforce5000+
Capespan Farms is the primary agricultural production division of Capespan Group Limited, the global distributor and marketer of fresh produce. The primary goal of Capespan Farms is to provide synergies within Capespan’s global fruit procurement and marketing footprint. All the farms are strategically positioned to enhance Capespan Group’s service and product o�ering to all our third party growers and our retail customers across the globe. At group level, Capespan enhances and adds to its significant third party grower product basket through its own production in order to ensure a sustainable twelve month supply of quality fresh produce.
Capespan Farms has since 2014 embarked on a focussed investment strategy in pursuit of this goal.
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OUR GROWTH STRATEGYAcquired Novo Packhouse in Paarl with a packing capacity of 135 000 bins pome and stone.
Acquired Theewaterskloof Estate in Villiersdorp, a 280ha pome farm.
Approved a 110ha pome development on Applethwaite Farm.
Approved a 114ha grape development in Aussenkehr, Namibia
Developed 166ha grapes (new varieties)in the Northern Cape.
Acquired Groot Patrysvlei in Clanwilliam, a 279ha citrus farm in a black spot free area.
Acquired a share in Sonkwasdrif, an apple farm in Barrydale, in a BEE partnership.
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Capespan Farms owns and controls sixteen production units (including Novo Packhouse) throughout Southern Africa, producing respectively grapes, citrus, pome and stone fruit. All the farms have industry accredited certifications including Global GAP, HACCP, Nurture (where necessary), Leaf and Field to Fork. Production, compliance and ethical audits are conducted regularly to ensure optimum marketing of our fruit globally.
All agricultural practices are based on the latest scientific methods. Food safety and environmentally sustainable water usage, are as important as high yield and top quality. We remain flexible and responsive to our customer’s needs and o�er complete product traceability.
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TABLE GRAPES
Capespan Grape Farmsalong the Orange River
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Capespan Farms owns nine table grape farms along the banks of the Orange River (South Africa and Namibia).
All these farms have recently invested significantly in quality infrastructure improvements as well as additional production developments. Following all the completed and pending developments, these units will represent 1 000ha of table grapes under production. A significant portion of the new grape developments consist of exciting new varieties.
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Farms8
Current Production1.8M cartonsFuture Production2.3M cartons
Established Vineyards480 HA
TABLE GRAPESKEY STATISTICSNorthern Cape
4 Units1 Farm
Current Production1.7M cartonsFuture Production2.2M cartons
Established Vineyards475 HA
NAMIBIAGRAPE COMPANYAussenkehr
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Northern Cape35 HAReplant Strategy followed annually7 %
NEW VARIETIES TO BEPLANTED IN 2017
Namibia Grape CompanyAussenkehr
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Arra 15Cotton CandyIvorySweet Globe
Arra 14Arra 18Arra 20Candy CrunchCandy HeartsMelodySugra 13Sugra 16 Sweet SapphireSweet Surrender
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EXCITING NEW TABLE GRAPE VARIETIES
AllisonArra 10Arra 13Crimson seedlessKrissyJack SaluteMagentaRalliSweet CelebrationTimcoTimpson
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CITRUSEASTERN CAPEThe Penhill Farm, situated next to the Addo Elephant Park in the Sunday’s River Valley, comprises 137ha of various cultivars mainly lemons and navels. Another 170ha lemons, late mandarins and late navels will be planted once new water rights has been secured. The farm annually produces 270 000 cartons of citrus fruit. This area is widely regarded as a prime citrus growing region.
WESTERN CAPEGroot Patrysvlei, situated in Clanwilliam, is a black spot free area and registered to export product to the USA. The 279ha citrus farm produces soft citrus, lemons and oranges.
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Farm1
Production Volume320 000 cartonsEstablished Orchards137 HA
CITRUSKEY STATISTICSEastern Cape
Farms2
Production Volume250 000 cartonsEstablished Orchards179 HA
Western Cape
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Farms3Established Orchards580 HAProduction Volume1.45M cartons
POME & STONEKEY STATISTICS
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POME & STONEWESTERN CAPEThe Capespan Group has approved a 5 year development plan of 110 new hectares of pome cultivars for Applethwaite Farm. By 2020 Applethwaite will have 290ha in full production, producing 880 000 apple and pear cartons combined.
Theewaterskloof Estate is a premium pome fruit farm situated in Villiersdorp with currently 275ha pome fruit under cultivation. The farm currently produces 800 000 cartons, increasing to 1.2m over the next 5 years.
The combined pome & stone volume for these two farms will increase from 1.3m cartons in 2016 to 2.27m cartons in 2020.
Sonkwasdrif Farm is a predominately pome farm in the Barrydale area, situated at the foot of the Langeberg Mountains. The farm currently produces 150 000 cartons and will grow to 270 000 cartons over the next 5 years.
NOVO is a state-of-the-art pome fruit packing facility situated in Paarl in the Western Cape, strategically located to service pome fruit farmers in the Ceres, Villiersdorp, Piketberg, Grabouw and Boland areas. The ability to pack to di�erent grades simultaneously enables Capespan Farms to optimise the full bin of fruit as well as servicing the di�erent needs of the di�erent market segments. The packhouse has BRC accreditation, and is fitted with the IQS3 (intelligent quality sorter) technology from Greefa, Netherlands. The facility run 135 000 bins at full capacity. It’s CA cold rooms have a current bin capacity of 66 000, which will expand to 86 000 in 2019.
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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
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Capespan Farms grows and sells its products according to the highest quality and ethical standards. We are committed to the health, safety, and fair treatment of all our employees. Capespan Farms strives to continuously improve on the well-being of our people and the environment where we operate. We are defined by the quality of our products in the market. We care for the people who nurture and produce these products – our employees.
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
Key environmental resource indicators are monitored across all the farms to ensure that our activities have minimal impact on the environment. Through supporting programmes such as GlobalGAP and ongoing accreditation audits in accordance with industry regulations, we ensure that Capespan Farms remains a leader in environmental friendly farming techniques.
ENERGY AND AIR
Infrastructure is designed to utilise o�-peak periods, and new equipment has been installed to manage variable demand and produce less waste.
WATER
Soil probe technology ensures irrigation does not go beyond the necessary saturation, thereby avoiding run-o� waste. These probes also enable the scientific scheduling of irrigation according to our plants’ needs. Spray equipment is carefully calibrated to ensure minimum prescribed application per square metre of orchard or vineyard.
SOIL
Soil samples are analysed in a laboratory to ensure optimal application of macro and micro nutrition elements. We do not use chemicals that could damage soil and bacteria is prohibited.
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LAND USE AND BUILD ENVIRONMENT
Infrastructure is only built once a stringent Environmental Impact Study has been conducted. Best practices, like proper drainage and cover crop management, are applied to avoid soil erosion. Suppliers are vetted based on their approach to sustainability and environmental impact.
COMMUNITY & SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY
The Corporate Social Responsibility initiative – Capespan Blue Hand “we care”™ - is a non-profit public benefit organisation, funded solely by Capespan Group. Our sole mandate is to improve the quality of life for people living and working on Capespan’s farms.
In addition, Capespan supports local community projects by endorsing and sponsoring projects that are aligned with this mandate. The vision is to e�ciently address primary health care, basic-education and life-skills
development needs by means of integrated sustainable initiatives that uplift beneficiaries and their communities.
Social Development projects include the installation of infrastructure, such as improved drinking water filtering systems; and the renovation of existing, as well as construction of additional, worker accommodation and facilities.
PROJECTS
Some Blue Hand “we care” TM initiatives:
Northern CapeBlue Hand “we care” TM initiated an extensive Primary Healthcare Services Programme, in partnership with local stakeholders, in this major table grape production area. Clinics have been renovated or constructed and equipped on each Capespan farm, and professional service providers assist an average of 2 000 farm workers annually.
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On-site minor- ailment treatment, as well as primary- and occupational health-care consultations, are conducted at regular intervals during peak fruit production season. During the o�-season, personal hygiene, preventative healthcare and related educational services are provided in addition to the above. On-site daycare centres o�er a condensed educational programme for pre-school children, providing an age-appropriate nurturing environment while their parents are working on the farm.
Eastern CapeA large percentage of the Valencia township residents in the Eastern Cape work on citrus production farms in the Sundays River Valley area. In partnership with Capespan’s Far East subsidiary Metspan, the Place of Hope and Mercy community project (in Valencia township) has been endorsed and sponsored by Blue Hand.
Two NGOs, Marist and Mercy Care, started the initiative with limited infrastructure, and a single cargo container for shelter. Blue Hand funding allowed the project to expand to a sustainable scale. With the help of local community volunteers, meals are served to more than 300 needy people twice a week. In addition, we built two pre-school classrooms, storage, ablution facilities and a kitchen for the project.
Blue Hand annually provides a Pre-school educational programme to approximately 120 children, monitored by the Sisters of Mercy and Capespan. This education centre provides work to 9 full-time employees as well as a large number of volunteers. The facilities compare with those provided in urban areas and an average of 40 children graduate from Grade R annually.
Blue Hand recently added a skills development and medical consultation facility to this project, consisting of two consultation rooms, a toilet, kitchenette and a training room. This facility is used by a local female craft group to manufacture and sew bags, carpets, pillows and even local school uniforms to provide an income for
single parent mothers. Partner-funders are currently being sourced to expand this skills-development programme and infrastructure to scale.
Similar to the Northern Cape Health Project Blue Hand recently launched a Basic and Occupational Health Care project in the Eastern Cape. This project is managed in partnership with local community stakeholders to benefit the health and wellness of farm workers in the Sundays River Valley.
HUMAN RIGHTS
Capespan Group is committed to ensuring that the human rights of its employees are entrenched in their employment and living standards. We endorse and enforce relevant policies and regulations dealing with minimum labour standards and child labour in all our operating countries. In 2012, Capespan established a Social and Ethics Board Committee to ensure that the Group continually complies with relevant human rights legislation.
PRODUCT RESPONSIBILITY
All Capespan’s farms have industry accredited certifications including GlobalGAP, HACCP, Nurture (where necessary), Leaf and Field to Fork. Capespan Farms applies the stipulated regulations of Good Agricultural Practices (GAP), Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and Good Logistical Practices (GLP) for the production, handling and packaging of fresh produce, applicable to relevant countries of export.
An Integrated Crop Management (ICM) system is deployed to conserve and enhance the use of natural resources and ensure responsible production from orchard to consumer. Capespan regularly reviews ISO 9001:2008 requirements and compliance ensuring a continuous drive to improvement, entrenching Capespan as the preferred global provider of fresh produce and supply chain solutions.
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On-site minor- ailment treatment, as well as primary- and occupational health-care consultations, are conducted at regular intervals during peak fruit production season. During the o�-season, personal hygiene, preventative healthcare and related educational services are provided in addition to the above. On-site daycare centres o�er a condensed educational programme for pre-school children, providing an age-appropriate nurturing environment while their parents are working on the farm.
Eastern CapeA large percentage of the Valencia township residents in the Eastern Cape work on citrus production farms in the Sundays River Valley area. In partnership with Capespan’s Far East subsidiary Metspan, the Place of Hope and Mercy community project (in Valencia township) has been endorsed and sponsored by Blue Hand.
Two NGOs, Marist and Mercy Care, started the initiative with limited infrastructure, and a single cargo container for shelter. Blue Hand funding allowed the project to expand to a sustainable scale. With the help of local community volunteers, meals are served to more than 300 needy people twice a week. In addition, we built two pre-school classrooms, storage, ablution facilities and a kitchen for the project.
Blue Hand annually provides a Pre-school educational programme to approximately 120 children, monitored by the Sisters of Mercy and Capespan. This education centre provides work to 9 full-time employees as well as a large number of volunteers. The facilities compare with those provided in urban areas and an average of 40 children graduate from Grade R annually.
Blue Hand recently added a skills development and medical consultation facility to this project, consisting of two consultation rooms, a toilet, kitchenette and a training room. This facility is used by a local female craft group to manufacture and sew bags, carpets, pillows and even local school uniforms to provide an income for
single parent mothers. Partner-funders are currently being sourced to expand this skills-development programme and infrastructure to scale.
Similar to the Northern Cape Health Project Blue Hand recently launched a Basic and Occupational Health Care project in the Eastern Cape. This project is managed in partnership with local community stakeholders to benefit the health and wellness of farm workers in the Sundays River Valley.
HUMAN RIGHTS
Capespan Group is committed to ensuring that the human rights of its employees are entrenched in their employment and living standards. We endorse and enforce relevant policies and regulations dealing with minimum labour standards and child labour in all our operating countries. In 2012, Capespan established a Social and Ethics Board Committee to ensure that the Group continually complies with relevant human rights legislation.
PRODUCT RESPONSIBILITY
All Capespan’s farms have industry accredited certifications including GlobalGAP, HACCP, Nurture (where necessary), Leaf and Field to Fork. Capespan Farms applies the stipulated regulations of Good Agricultural Practices (GAP), Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and Good Logistical Practices (GLP) for the production, handling and packaging of fresh produce, applicable to relevant countries of export.
An Integrated Crop Management (ICM) system is deployed to conserve and enhance the use of natural resources and ensure responsible production from orchard to consumer. Capespan regularly reviews ISO 9001:2008 requirements and compliance ensuring a continuous drive to improvement, entrenching Capespan as the preferred global provider of fresh produce and supply chain solutions.
Capespan Farms (Pty) Ltd99 Jip de JagerThe Vineyards O�ce EstateCabernet House, Bellville, 7530 Tel number: +27 21 020 0160www.capespan.com
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