In building and construction, the often-misunderstood concept of the building envelope has been overlooked in South Africa for too long. Typically, a construction firm will work with an architect, quantity surveyor, and engineer to create spaces...
Profiles
SIEMENS: Transformation Occurs When Real and Digital Worlds Collide
Focused on industry, infrastructure, transport, and healthcare, Siemens is a technology company which exists to create technology with purpose, which in turn adds real value for customers spanning the fields of IT, industry, finance, and energy....
BÜHLER GROUP: After 50 Years, Bühler Remains Innovator of Choice in SA
“The market of South Africa including the neighbouring countries will double its inhabitants to 400 million people by 2050,” says Stefan Scheiber, Bühler Group CEO, speaking of the mass potential in the region. Bühler is a global powerhouse in the...
METRO EXPRESS: Metro Express Construction Proceeds at Lightning Speed
Metro Express CEO Dr Das Mootanah dials in to Enterprise Africa from the Ebene suburb of Quatre Bornes, Mauritius, which he likens to Canary Wharf in the UK: just five kilometres south of the capital, Port Louis, its own construction began in...
BLOK: Harnessing Urban Energy in Unique City Spaces
At the close of 2020, as South Africa finally began to settle into lockdown level 1, the property sector, and particularly the residential side, was feeling strangely buoyant. Yes, a renewed sense of optimism was beginning to pervade the air, with...
INOSPACE: Inospace and Fortress Combine to Form Last-Mile Logistics Leader
Logistics and warehousing real-estate has emerged as a high growth sector across the African continent with investor appetite for industrial stock across, attracted to the sector’s strong income profile and positive market fundamentals such as...
ARRIE NEL: Family-First Pharmacies Committed to Community-Centric Care
There are now 104 Arrie Nel pharmacies populating the South African pharmaceutical landscape, and this number is constantly increasing, employing just under 4000 people. Now approaching its 25th anniversary as the Arrie Nel Pharmacy group, formed...
ALPHA PHARM: Safeguarding A Healthier South Africa Across Generations
Set in prime positions in Silverton, Bloemfontein, Durban, East London, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town are Alpha Pharm’s sextuplet of distribution centres, strategically located to facilitate the wholesale and fine distribution of a nearly...
GRAAFF FRUIT: Ever-Growing Ceres Fruit Farm Planning for Long Term
A short drive from Cape Town, northeast through Paarl, across the agricultural heartland of South Africa, you enter the Ceres Valley. A beautiful, lush, rich landscape - boasting mountain ranges for shelter and deep healthy soil – you will not find...
CALLFORCE: Global BPO Services Drive Exceptional Customer Experiences
The CallForce story began 22 years ago, then a flexible staffing company providing HR and recruitment services to the South African Contact Centre sector. After 15 years of building the business, a shift in strategy came to allow a global brand to...
DRS: Services and Technology to Protect Prized Assets
The Covid-19 pandemic was almost universally negative in its sweeping, crushing impact on businesses, but it was those in the tech sector that were among the only ones left booming. Information and Communications Technology (ICT), financial...
VISA: Innovation, Reliability and Security Drives Financial Inclusion
Since the dawn of Visa’s history in 1958, the year that Bank of America launched the first consumer credit card programme for middle-class consumers and SMEs in the U.S, innovation and growth have been two operative words that have defined its...
FNB NAMIBIA: Namibia’s Best Pioneers Sustainable Transformation
Operating throughout Africa, FNB is universally recognised as one of the most respected and most powerful brands on the continent, making available the best financial services in line with international standards. Not limited to financial services,...
CIPC: Innovating and Improving to Support Enterprise and Growth
Established by the Companies Act 2008, the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) is a vital agency of the Department of Trade and Industry in South Africa, coming into effect in May 2011. A dual office integral to the registration of companies, co-operatives, and intellectual property rights, CIPC seamlessly transitioned to not only maintain but improve standards and turnaround times as the pandemic took hold, with a policy of ceaseless innovation at the core of its efficacy.
RAWSON PROPERTY GROUP: Championing real estate Franchise ownership in South Africa
WHY REAL ESTATE? According to Tony Clarke, MD of the Rawson group, few industries can beat property for ease of access and earning potential. In every economic climate, in times of high interest rates and times of low interest rates, there will...
PARETO PROPERTY: Pareto Pushes Prosperous Transformation Programmes
Stark facts still detract from successes in the South African economy. There are fantastic examples of world-leading organisations that realise monumental accomplishments that are not just financial, but the country is the most unequal in the world...
AURIA SENIOR LIVING: Gold-Standard Choice Over Compromise in Golden Years
“This is not retirement. This is living.” So goes the Auria Senior Living (Auria) mantra, on its mission to erase a deeply-etched line for South Africans seeking a comfortable, hassle-free lifestyle in their older years. “At Auria we refer to...
GRAND REINSURANCE: Balancing Risk Across the Continent
Reinsurance is often more commonly known as ‘insurance for insurance companies’. A vital second layer of protection, it drastically reduces the risk for major insurers of suffering dangerously high losses as a consequence of payments for large...