Profiles

NAMIB MILLS: 40 Years and Still Cooking at Namib Mills

NAMIB MILLS: 40 Years and Still Cooking at Namib Mills

40 years ago, Windhoek Maize Mill opened its doors, producing 16 tons each month; this marked the birth of Namib Mills. In 1982, before the country achieved independence, just over one million people faced food insecurity and there was a need for...

RHEINMETALL DENEL MUNITION: Sights Set Firmly on the Future

RHEINMETALL DENEL MUNITION: Sights Set Firmly on the Future

As an integrated technology group, Rheinmetall AG stands for a strong, internationally successful company that operates in various markets world-wide with an innovative range of products and services. Rheinmetall Denel Munition (RDM)’s own...

JOTUN PAINTS SA: Jotun Goes Lean in Growth Push   

JOTUN PAINTS SA: Jotun Goes Lean in Growth Push   

Protectors of property, Jotun Paints (Jotun), is one of the world’s leading coatings corporates, delivering premium quality products for decorative, marine, protective, and powder applications. With more than 10,000 employees globally, active...

HOLLARD MOZAMBIQUE:  Optimistic Outlook for Healthy Hollard

HOLLARD MOZAMBIQUE: Optimistic Outlook for Healthy Hollard

Perhaps one of the most appealing and potential-packed sectors in Africa today, the health insurance market is rife with opportunity. In 2020, 70% of all premiums were paid in South Africa, leaving the balance of an almost $70 billion spread across...

EDUPOWER SKILLS ACADEMY: EduPower Bets on BPO to Close Skills Gap

EDUPOWER SKILLS ACADEMY: EduPower Bets on BPO to Close Skills Gap

In South Africa, the official unemployment rate for the second quarter of 2022 sat at 37%. The situation was worse for women where stats suggest 47% of women are economically inactive – almost half of all women of working age in the country. For...

MARSH AFRICA: For Marsh, the Purpose Is Possibility

MARSH AFRICA: For Marsh, the Purpose Is Possibility

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...

AVBOB: There for You in Your Times of Greatest Need

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...

MASTERPARTS: Masterparts Growth Shows No Signs of Slowing

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

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

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...

BATA SOUTH AFRICA:  Strategy Step-Up Strengthens Bata Ambitions

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...

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