About SAMAC
Our Purpose
To provide inspirational and innovative leadership to an all-inclusive and aligned South African Macadamia Industry, which through the power of the collective, is built on broad based research, market development and stakeholders engagements.
SAMAC Personnel
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Goals
Lead world class research in support of:
- continuous improvement in production yields, processing and quality
- growing the demand ahead of supply through inter alia the health benefits for consumers as reasons to increase consumption
- continuously gauge market evolution and be agile to industry changes and identify drivers of future change
Establish and improve collaborative government relations in order to:
- facilitate favourable market access
- leverage transformation advantages to SAMAC and beneficiaries
- ensure long term goodwill for the industry amongst legislators
- manage local and export minimum quality standards
- minimise product theft
- respond positively from a single voice to new legislation and have a unified/standardised implementation and response to change
Deliver value for money to growers:
- interpret and make research results available and useful to growers (publish best practices and productivity benchmarking)
- continually improve technology by connecting growers to appropriate sources for technical advice
- represent South Africa on the global Macadamia stage
Develop and implement a formal communications strategy to communicate:
- internally to the industry
- externally
- communicate the results and benefits of SAMAC’s achievements on behalf of the industry
Build and maintain a professional and lean organisation to:
- deliver value and quality
- outsource to the best-in-class service providers
- focus on execution excellence for the core fundamentals
SAMAC Sub-Committees
SAMAC has 3 sub-committees who meets at regular intervals during the year and report accordingly to the Board.
