[2] The business is controlled by Ukrainian businessman and oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, who owns 100% of the company's shares.

The company includes over 100 businesses in metals and mining, power generation, banking and insurance, telecommunications, media, real estate, and others.

SCM group also includes assets in heavy engineering, clay production, transportation, agriculture, and retail businesses.

SCM businesses are helping the army and territorial defence forces defend our sovereignty, our freedom and independence, and win the war," he stated.

[11] This included the following assistance: SCM's Metinvest and DTEK have joined efforts with the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation to launch the Saving Lives humanitarian project, which supplies food to IDPs as well as helps evacuate and accommodate people.

[12] Metinvest, UMG Investments, DTEK and other SCM businesses have joined efforts to create a national and international network of carriers to supply humanitarian aid during wartime, the Logistics Front.

The objective of the logistics network is to help people as well as towns and cities affected by the Russian invasion deliver food and essentials and support critical infrastructure facilities.

[15][16] In his comments to The Wall Street Journal, Ahmetov, the owner of the two biggest Mariupol metallurgy plants, Azovstal Iron and Steel Works and Illich Steel and Iron Works, stated that both plants were under Ukrainian control but had been temporarily shut down.

"[19] In September 2011, under USAID support, the Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility Development published the results of the first Ukraine's Companies' Transparency Index.

[21] On 1 December 2011, SCM was honored at the Business Leadership Roundtable and Corporate Social Responsibility Awards Luncheon held during Ukraine's 20th Anniversary of Independence Gala events in Washington, D.C.[22] On 15 December 2011, SCM took the first place at the National CSR Business Case 2011 Contest for its Contemporary Education social programme.