In the ever-changing world of wealth and financial management, the onset of the deadly Covid-19 pandemic has delivered a fresh set of challenges for those at the top of the industry to meet. In South Africa, where financial advisory practices have...
For almost half a century, Avis has been a leading car rental business in South Africa. The door was opened to the American brand – originally established in Detroit in 1946 – when, in 1972, Federale Volksbeleggings Bpk (a Sanlam subsidiary)...
NAMCOR was established in 1967, since which time it has become responsible for reconnaissance, exploration and production operations both through solo pursuits and by partnering with other noteworthy industry names. “Our vision is to be a...
Once pegged as the country’s next big market, South Africa’s alcohol industry is now facing what Beverage Daily calls an ‘economic abyss’. Many businesses are on the brink of collapse in large part due to the repeated bans on the sale of alcohol...
Investments, stocks, shares, exchange traded funds (ETFs), linked investment service provider (LISP), indices, index tracking, unit trusts? While many people may perceive these as the bastion of the wealthy, Satrix CEO Helena Conradie and her team...
Investment and asset management is an industry full of problem solvers; people who offer up solutions that ensure growth. The sector, globally, is laden with innovation. Convergent thinkers come together to deliver prosperity for clients,...
“We are busy with a lot of exciting new things which we are working hard to get off the ground,” CEO and founder Thinus Janse Van Rensburg begins, with A-Sure Consulting poised to add another brave leap to its history. “We wouldn’t class ourselves...
“We contribute to financial resilience and prosperity in all the markets where we are present,” Sanlam sets out. Headquartered in South Africa, this diversified financial services group operates across a number of selected global markets. In its...
2020’s intense and severe focus on global healthcare systems has brought to the fore shortcomings across almost all geographies. Innovation at lightning speed has been required to halt a pandemic where the lethal effects of an unknown virus have...
In September 2018, one of the Western Cape’s most prominent structural steel businesses was booming. LEMCO, a family business established in 1967 by Pieter Laubscher, was busy erecting steel buildings across multiple sites, bringing its...
Up and down is the story of Glodina. Like most companies, the peaks have been sweet and troughs sour. But this South African legacy has seemingly faced the extremes of the highs and lows. Founded more than 60 years ago, the company comes with...
Product packaging serves a much greater purpose than simply being sturdy, reliable and secure in order to protect what is inside. This is its core function but the cover is very often the first time a consumer will be introduced to a product or...
In Rosebank – the trendy cosmopolitan hub between central Jo’burg and Sandton – a one-of-a-kind development described as ‘the ultimate investment node in Johannesburg’ has been carefully created by Blend Property Group. The Bank, a unique and...
South Africa in 2013, after the global financial crash and post FIFA World Cup, was similar in economic backdrop as it has been for much of the past three decades – not living up to potential. Too many still out of work, corruption still seemingly...
The Covid-19 pandemic has imposed undeniable change across many industry sectors. Digitisation and technological advancement are the obvious examples for most workplaces, but changes to the well-recognised social construct have also come about,...
In the beautiful and lush afternoon shadow of Table Mountain National Park, between Wynberg and Constantia – where the Cape Dutch manors line the streets and Geissorhiza radian flowers grow in well-kept gardens – one of the country’s leading wealth...
“Lekela’s vision is to be the go-to renewable energy company and investor and operator in Africa. But it goes beyond that to contributing to the development of Africa, value creation in Africa, and, of course, the economic and social development of...
The sour taste left by the Covid-19 pandemic, as President Ramaphosa describes the country moving from relief to recovery, has resulted in a lack of zest across major industries in the country. At the beginning of 2020, the economy sat stagnant –...