Group strategy

The Group’s strategy is to deliver long-term, sustainable, above average returns to shareholders through the development of its three principal operating divisions. These divisions are run as sector-focused stand-alone businesses to facilitate enhanced operational and financial performance as well as to react faster to technology change. The key elements of the Group’s strategy include:

• continued focus on organic growth in the higher value, faster growing sectors of the ICT market;
• targeted geographical expansion;
• investment in higher margin services activities;
• earnings-enhancing acquisitions

The Group is not dependent on any key market, territory or technology sector and is continually improving supplier and customer diversification as a consequence of its scale and increasing globalisation.

Datatec is creating shareholder value through actively managing its complementary but standalone businesses. In addition to the allocation of capital and financing resources for each activity, the central team supports each division’s growth strategies, providing corporate opportunities, market and sector intelligence plus geographical and industry expertise.

Why invest in Datatec?

Datatec offers shareholders an opportunity to invest in a leading international ICT group that is uniquely positioned to take advantage of advances in networking, information security and convergence technologies. The spread of business activities across distribution, ICT Solutions and consulting services provides the Group with multiple points of entry to the global market, and acts as a defensive hedge against the decline of any one vendor, geography or technology in a fast consolidating and dynamic market. The Group has a strong operational management team, with considerable experience in the international ICT industry, and a successful track record of delivering organic and acquisition-led growth.