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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
“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 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 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...
“Avis is a trusted and award-winning brand with a long history of innovation in the car rental industry,” the company opens of the business originally born of Warren Avis’s realisation in 1946 of a rapidly growing need of people to be transported...
Amid increasing pressure on water resources and a global rise in supply-risk and cost of total water management, Talbot’s more than 30 years’ experience and delivery of in excess of 300 projects in over 20 countries in Africa, Australia and Eastern...
“Businesses that aren’t online are digging their own grave and missing out on potential business,” estimates Cape Town-based web hosting company 1-grid, and it is this omission that it is on a mission to fix. The internet has made the world a far...
Established for over 30 years, Caseware is transforming the way in which auditing and accounting professionals work through quality products and services combined with state-of-the-art infrastructure. “At Caseware, we specialise in financial...
For leading industrial processing, distribution, and services company Barloworld, its 120th anniversary is not a time to look back but a preparative year, forward focussed, as it takes action rarely seen before to drive culture change internally....
Like most sectors of the South African economy, printing technology has received its share of disruption over the past decade. Those companies that have failed to keep up with trends, and have been unable to meet the quickly changing needs of...
South Africa already faces a major problem with electronic waste (e-waste) – one which is set to exacerbate without intervention. Research suggests that each South African generates 6.2 kg of e-waste annually, with less than 13% being recycled....
A significant manoeuvre is underway at the Port of East London as Transnet National Ports Authority targets considerable growth from South Africa’s premier river port. Underutilised and threatened by a lack of diversity in its client base, this...
While the buy-to-let residential market may be languishing in the doldrums, Africrest and its innovative ‘Built-to-Rent’ model is thriving and over the last five years work has barely ceased for even a second. Beginning with an office conversion in...
Committed to architectural excellence since its establishment in 1989, EPA has been in the business of creating exciting buildings, environments and spaces with functionality at their heart ever since. The result of a longstanding partnership...