The Covid-19 pandemic wreaked havoc across the advertising industry in its early days. As various restrictions came into play around the world, and society’s patterns realised holistic change, the way advertisers allocated their budgets shifted. At...
In Durban, southern Africa’s import/export hub, a Shell/BP joint venture remains vital for the local economy while contributing heavily to wider South African society. Blendcor is the lubricants, oils, and grease business of the two international...
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...
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....
“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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
“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...
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...