Anglo American plc SWOT and PESTLE Analysis

Strength

1. World-class, differentiated asset portfolio: With a robust portfolio of mining and processing operations and underdeveloped resources, Anglo American Plc can be considered as a world class leader in the global mining industry. The company has established the foundations of its global businesses on the quality and long life of its mineral assets. For the improvement of its overall competitive position as well as the sustainable trajectory supporting the development of products to match the fast-growing population, Anglo American indulges in proactive asset portfolio management. The scale and diversity of its portfolio that spans over diamonds (through De Beers), copper, platinum group metals, iron ore, coal, nickel and manganese, helps the company to deliver its full potential by leveraging the financial resources, technical expertise and supplier relationships.

2. Strong innovative culture supported by digitalisation and sustainability: Anglo American Plc strives to excel across all its business aspects by promoting innovation in the fields of both digitalisation and sustainability. By ensuring safety of its people, sustainability in performance, and delivery of industry-leading margins and returns, the company is building a future of broad innovative thinking, enabling technologies, and collaborative partnerships. As a strategic initiative, the FutureSmart Mining programme undertaken by the company believes in the hand-in-hand working of technology, sustainability and digitalisation. With the help of this programme, it aims to fundamentally change the traditional methods of sourcing, mining, processing, moving and marketing its products.

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Environmental

1. Transitioning to a cleaner world with lower emission transport and energy solutions: In light of the societal concerns regarding curbing the climate change effects, greenhouse gases and other noxious emissions, most of the responsible corporations from multiple countries across sectors are responding by transitioning towards lower-emission transport and energy generation. Anglo American Plc also contributes towards this transition, to a greener and more sustainable world, by involvement in the mining of metals and minerals. The metals and minerals mined include PGMs, which act as catalytic converters in internal combustion engines and hydrogen fuel cells as well as copper, which is used in electric vehicles (EVs) and renewable energy generation; and also, nickel in batteries within EVs. The company also works closely with its customers to provide niche steelmaking products like iron ore from Kumba, hard coking coal from our Metallurgical Coal mines in Australia and low impurity iron ore pellet feed from Minas-Rio required for accomplishing environmental goals.

2. Moving towards a circular economy by promoting recycling: The over-explosion of the global middle class is expected to bring in 2 billion new customers by 2030. It is projected to bring about significant strain to the planet. In response to one of the greatest challenges, that is, over-consumption of resources, all responsible corporations are marching towards a circular economy, which entails the decoupling of economic activities that consume a great deal of finite resources, thereby eliminating wastage and also, maximising resource efficiency. This decoupling requires the mining industry to ensure availability of appropriate raw materials through recycling or production, by balancing the resource extraction and management activities. Anglo American delivers value by participating beyond upstream production throughout the value chain, and by applying technological innovations as well as sustainability.