For over 150 years Marsh has grown by helping clients anticipate and meet the needs and challenges of changing times and technologies. In Africa, this has primarily been borne out in specialising in providing clients with the intellectual capital...
Profiles
AVBOB: There for You in Your Times of Greatest Need
Established in Bloemfontein in 1918, AVBOB has spent more than a century flourishing into Africa’s largest Mutual Assurance Society, with more than 7,000 staff providing a one-stop funeral insurance and burial service. “We set out to provide our...
RAND MUTUAL ASSURANCE: A Constant Source of Warmth, Compassion and Care
“RMA is the warm African sunrise that welcomes warmth, comfort and care to the lives we touch,” sets out the non-profit, mutual assurance organisation owned by its policy holders. “As an organisation that is compassionate and caring, RMA goes the...
QUESTEK ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES: Getting the Right Message to the Right People, at the Right Time
Technology touches almost every aspect of today’s world, that much goes without saying. It has changed the way we live our daily lives, the way we conduct business, and the way we communicate. Audio-visual integration (AVI) plays a major role in...
MASTERPARTS: Masterparts Growth Shows No Signs of Slowing
Traditionally the African leader of the automotive industry, South Africa now produces more than half a million automobiles of all types each year. Amid the despondency around load shedding and other weakening economic indicators, the National...
WEBUYCARS: Hitting Top Gear and Still Accelerating
South Africa’s automotive industry continues to move as a major driver of the economy – there is no swerving this indisputable fact. From manufacturing, distribution, technology, repair, after market, modification, and sales, the industry supports...
THE SBS GROUP: Quarter Century of South African Success for SBS
“When I stand in front of a SBS Tanks customer, I am able to say: ‘Everything that will go up on this site is South African by origin’,” says Delayne Gray, Group CEO at The SBS Group. Perhaps one of South Africa’s proudest advocates, Gray heads one...
MASSLIFT AFRICA: Three Decades of Strong Growth for Africa’s Forklift Specialist
For three decades, Masslift Africa has been a powerful force, underpinning the performance of client business, elevating employees, raising the communities in which it operates, and improving itself year-on-year. A company known for ultimate...
BATA SOUTH AFRICA: Strategy Step-Up Strengthens Bata Ambitions
Last year, a leading South African manufacturer, creating much-loved products for consumers around Africa, was consolidating and searching for opportunities post-pandemic. Michael Wyatt, MD at Bata South Africa – the famous maker of robust school...
HARVEY ROOFING PRODUCTS: HRP EcoTile® to Totally Disrupt Roofing Market
Exciting things are happening at the Harvey Roofing Products (HRP) plant in Gauteng. In a world-first, this expert manufacturing business has installed all-new equipment capable of producing an innovative, strong, and in-demand new product that...
BIOTHERAPEUTICS: Excitement Builds Around New Application Launch
The African cosmetics and supplementary health industry is rife with opportunity. Pre pandemic, the cosmetics sector was estimated to be worth $400 billion but just 3% of this was African. The continental nutraceutical industry is on a growth path,...
RESPUBLICA: Respublica to Grow in Fertile African Student Accommodation Market
Property development in South Africa is on a roll. Retailers are funding a major boom in storage capacity. Logistics companies are busy with international-standard distribution centres. Housing companies are inundated with requests for new...
PREMIER HOTELS & RESORTS: Comfortably the Best: Premier Secures Improvement, Expansion and Growth
Over 30 years in the industry, Premier Hotels & Resorts has become the go-to expert in developing and managing hotels, conference centres and restaurants. “From humble beginnings in the Eastern Cape, to becoming one of South Africa’s leading,...
R&D CONTRACTING: Building Valuable Skills for SA Industrial Maintenance Sector
For David Williams and Remo Torrente, Directors at R&D Contracting, the past 16 years have been a journey of learning. Establishing a contracting business in South Africa’s developing and changing compliance environments was not easy, but these...
CONCORD RETAIL SOLUTIONS: Concord Embraces Complete Retail Solutions
In May 2019, Concord Refrigeration (a division of Southey Holdings) was busy working with some of the country’s leading retailers, providing refrigerated display cabinets as well as heated display cabinets. After the pandemic, rioting, and further...
SAPPO: Positive Influence for Sustainable SA Industry
“Only 8-10% of total animal consumption in South Africa is pork,” admits Johann Kotzé, CEO of the South African Pork Producers Organisation (SAPPO). It’s small compared to chicken which is about 60%, he says. “But we believe we play a major role in...
DENNY MUSHROOMS: Adding Sustainable Goodness to Every Meal
“Denny is the mushroom expert, and we are passionate about what we do,” neatly summates the mushroom monolith. This much is undeniable: its three hi-tech farms in Cape Town, KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng produce half of the total mushroom consumption...
SHELL SOUTH AFRICA: Building for the Next 120 Years of Ambition, Collaboration and Advancement
Shell has served South Africans since 1902, one of the largest international energy companies in the country with an enormous national footprint of service stations catering for a full suite of customer profiles. Still occupying a core position as...