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3B Holding

Impact

Grown. Built.
Healed. Connected.

Advancing society and strengthening communities is the mission. These four words are what it looks like on the ground.

Our mission is to build a more productive economy. Four outcomes define what that means in practice, and every investment is measured against them as well as against return.

We are an investor, not a development institution. But the infrastructure and services a community depends on are also the businesses worth owning for a long time, and we are content to be judged on both.

The four

What advancing society looks like on the ground.

Grown

Food grown, processed and packaged in country rather than imported into it.

Agriculture

Built

Factories, materials and infrastructure that add lasting capacity to the region.

Industrial Manufacturing · Construction & Real Estate

Healed

Clinics, diagnostics and medicine closer to the people who need them.

Healthcare & Pharma

Connected

The digital infrastructure a modern economy runs on – networks, payments and the systems businesses and households depend on daily.

Technology & Payments – Fintech – Digital Infrastructure

The enablers

And what makes
the four possible.

Three more sectors sit behind the others. On their own they are good businesses; together they are the reason the rest can grow.

Financed

Ordinary credit for the small and medium businesses that employ most people.

SME Finance

Taught

Schooling, higher education and vocational training – the skills every other sector depends on.

Education

Powered

Reliable and cleaner power, which changes what every other business is able to do.

Oil, Gas & Energy

Why it matters

What the region
needs most.

Employment

Too few people in the region are in formal, private-sector work. Businesses that grow and hire are the most durable answer to that, and they are what we fund.

A broader economy

An economy resting on a single commodity is exposed to a price it does not set. Every business built outside that dependence makes the region steadier.

Made here

We favour businesses that produce in the country rather than import into it, because capability built locally stays local.

Access to finance

Most small businesses here operate without access to ordinary credit. Closing that gap is part of what we are for.

Commitments

What we hold
ourselves to.

We would rather state what we commit to and report against it than publish a figure we cannot yet stand behind.

Employment

We report on jobs created and sustained across the businesses we hold.

Local hiring and training

We expect our businesses to recruit and train locally, and to promote from within.

Standards

The same standards of conduct, safety and treatment apply across the portfolio, wherever a business operates.

Reporting

We publish progress annually rather than case by case, so the picture is complete.

Not-for-profit activity

The group operates both commercial and not-for-profit activity.

Where we invest Our values