For more than half a century, Makro has been bringing convenience and affordability to local households and businesses, growing in these 50 years to one of South Africa’s most important wholesale retail outlets and adding a further 21 stores to its...
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SPINNAKER SOFTWARE: Trust Arch for Competitive Edge
As the often-unnoticed partner behind some of Southern Africa’s most successful retail and FMCG businesses, Spinnaker Software is helping clients to thrive and optimise in a quickly changing market that requires a nimble approach combined with a...
NANDO’S SOUTH AFRICA: Nandocas Always at the Heart of Champion Food Operation
Nando’s continues to dominate the takeout or quick service food market in South Africa in terms of creativity, innovation, and imagination. Since its establishment 35 years ago, the company has striven for differentiation through originality and...
ARCELORMITTAL SOUTH AFRICA: Repositioning, Restructuring and Revitalising Amid Steel Resurgence
Approaching its century at the helm of the South African steel trade, founded in 1928 ArcelorMittal South Africa is today the largest steel producer on the continent, with a typical production capacity of seven million tonnes of liquid steel each...
ROBERTSON AND CAINE: Set Sail with SA’s World-Beating Boat Builders
Established by John Robertson and the late Jerry Caine in 1991, Robertson and Caine has become known for its sailing and power catamarans, produced for some of the most discerning boat enthusiasts in the world. “Robertson and Caine catamarans set...
BITCO TELECOMS: BitCo Delivers Consistent Growth in Challenging Times
Strong, stable, reliable, and affordable connectivity continues to be a problem in South Africa where reports suggest that the majority of the country falls short of global average download speeds of 9.10Mbps. Wireless connectivity is more popular...
BONISWA CORPORATE SOLUTIONS: Clear Vision of Success Unites Boniswa
What started as an amazing entrepreneurial journey for the determined and driven Lynette Magasa is growing to become a vital and strategic asset for South Africa as Boniswa Corporate Solutions – a turnkey telecoms services group – continues to...
TERACO DATA ENVIRONMENTS: African Data Centres Located at the Digital Edge
Teraco is Africa’s most interconnected data centre hub, providing carrier and cloud-neutral colocation data centres with over 20,000 cross-connects. “As the first provider of highly resilient, vendor-neutral data environments in sub-Saharan Africa,...
TSEBO SOLUTIONS GROUP: Transformational, Client-Centric Solutions to Support Success
“A workplace that works for you.” Creating this is what drives everything that Tsebo does, with its more than 40,000 employees across nearly 30 countries having transformed thousands of client sites into those offering the height of workplace...
RAND WATER: For Rand Water, Every Drop Is Vital
While Africa can be justifiably said to contribute the least of any continent to global climate change, producing an average of just over one metric ton of carbon dioxide per person each year, it is also arguably the one most vulnerable to its...
KELVION THERMAL: Kelvion Thermal Is Hot Property
When Otto Happel senior opened the doors of Gesellschaft für Entstaubungs-Anlagen (GEA) in Bochum in 1920, surely even he would have struggled to imagine the extent of the success story that would result from the foundations he had laid. “Kelvion...
G4S AFRICA: People and Technology Work in Harmony to Boost Security
In 2016, G4S Africa President, Mel Brooks, told Enterprise Africa that the company was well-underway with a transition from a manned-guarding operation to become a total security provider, implementing various technologies to complement human...
UMLINDI SECURITY: A New Guardian for SA Business
Responsibility. Tendai Mtawarira has been shouldering it for years. A Bok icon, a symbol of the country’s world-famous rugby team, and a driving force behind South Africa’s success on the field. His 117 international caps make him one of the most...
EUROLAB: Eurolab Boasts CEO of the Year
For those active in healthcare, the pandemic was not a reason to shut up shop. There was no heading to hibernate, working from home and emerging into the new normal when the threat passed. Healthcare workers and innovators were and are the...
ASPEN PHARMA: Aspen Launches Africa-Leading Anaesthetics Production
With an acknowledged, listed presence in the pharmaceutical sector of more than two decades and boasting a 170-year heritage, Aspen improves the health of patients in more than 150 countries across the world via a vast array of high quality,...
STADIO HOLDINGS: Education Central to the Future of the Nation
For Stadio Holdings, everything is centred around facilitating access to higher education, through a quality teaching and learning ethos where student success is the top priority. “The time to do something great for South Africa is now,” begins CEO...
MIANZO: Shot in the Arm for Black SMEs
With five out of seven failing within their first year, and 100% Black-owned businesses notable victims, South Africa has one of the world’s highest SME failure rates. The consequences are stark. With their higher capacity to absorb labour, and a...
GAIA: Catalysing the African Infrastructure Investment Landscape
Established in 2012 as a specialist asset manager, Gaia focuses exclusively on facilitating the investment of long-term investor capital in infrastructure and agriculture investments in Southern Africa. “We pride ourselves on our unique...