UK-based global consumer healthcare company Haleon is investing R500-million in its South African operation, Haleon South Africa Cape Town site director Cindy Carter highlighted in a media briefing on Thursday. Haleon South Africa produced some of the best-known consumer health products in the country, including Grand Pa headache powders, and was a Level 4 broad-based black economic empowerment company. She reported that the South African operation was moving to adopt recyclable plastics, for example for packaging, as part of its policy of environmental responsibility. And it was installing solar power at its Cape Town plant, to reduce dependence on Eskom power, which was largely generated using “dirty” sources (that is, coal), to reduce Haleon’s carbon footprint.
