Message from the General Manager
At Nacto General Stationery, we understand sustainability as the avoidance of the depletion of natural resources in order to maintain an ecological balance and achieve global environmental sustainability and therefore we warmly welcomed the die of preparing our very first sustainability report. This being our first sustainability report, we put most of our emphasis on our market presence as our main material issue because a sustainable market share is a reason why we exist and we are
always striving to ensure that our customer base grows even bigger than the previous years. We have initiated a massive advertisement scheme on different media outlets across the country so as to target a much bigger audience.
At Nacto General Stationery, since most of our target market is schools and tertiary institutions, we sometimes visit different schools in our local communities across Kampala, especially at the beginning of an academic year and we provide free scholastic material such as books, pens, rulers and pencils among others to the less privileged students. However, the COVID-19 global pandemic largely affected our day-to-day business processes and our customer base because almost all schools and tertiary institutions were closed as students were all advised to stay at home so as to combat the spread of the virus among people. Due to the disruption of our business processes, our sales have been very low as compared to the previous years but we hope the lockdown can be eased soon so that students can resume school. We also participate in ‘Go Green Programs’ across Uganda where we visit different schools in different regions and we take part in planting trees to ensure that our country remains sustainable for both the current and future generation.
Finally, we would like to extent our sincere thanks to Uganda Manufacturers’ Association and the University of Southampton who availed us with an opportunity to prepare our first sustainability report.
Thank you
Natala George
4 August 2020