As one of the most effective franchise businesses in SA, Oasis Water is setting ambitious goals for the future; hoping to expand across sub-Saharan Africa and achieve double digit growth. Managing Director, Mynhardt Oosthuizen tells Enterprise...
Profiles
Eastern Cape Pressed Metal Specialist Geared For Expansion
For more than 30 years, Stateline Pressed Metals has been supplying into South Africa’s automotive manufacturing industry. Today, the company is structuring itself for a growth drive. CEO, Mark Gilbert tells Enterprise Africa more…...
Project Managers Growing Despite Tough Times
Completing major projects - all over Africa - on time, on budget and to top quality specs, GHC Africa is a project management firm with a glowing reputation. Director Mike Woodruff tells us more about how the company will be growing outside of SA,...
Lack of Foreign Currency Slows African Growth
Technology Based Performance Materials Company Ferro SA saw 2016 export targets remain flat due to key African markets which were hard hit by massive dollar shortages. But this innovative and progressive business looks to 2017 with optimism. “We...
Exxaro Leads Way On Structural Change
Although only 10 years old, Exxaro is one of the largest and foremost black-owned, South African-based diversified resources companies with business interests in South Africa, Europe and the USA, currently undergoing an important restructuring of...
Record Highs Forge Strong Results
Steel is the most widely used of all metals, employed in the construction of buildings and bridges, the manufacturing of vehicles and numerous household appliances. Kumba is Africa’s leading producer of iron ore and the fifth largest supplier of...
Expert Logistics from Beginning to End
Over its 30-year lifetime, Industrial Logistics Systems has become known as the expert in the field of Supply Chain logistics, and provides strategic consulting, infrastructure development and operations consulting services from initial strategies...
The Show Must Go On
When it comes to event planning in South Africa, the name on many people’s lips is Gearhouse South Africa. Gearhouse is a leading business in the events industry, supplying lighting, audio, electrical, stage, sets and much more, to large and small...
All-New Discovery… And A Jaguar For Africa
For decades icon brands in South Africa, Jaguar Land Rover are poised to launch head-turning new entrants into the region’s showrooms. “The Jaguar and Land Rover product line-ups are the most desirable they’ve ever been,” says Jaguar Land Rover...
Waiting To Accelerate
While the economy continues to create a tough environment for South Africa’s auto sales sector, exceptional client service and adroit management is seeing Imperial Select extending its market reach. And as Managing Director Ross Barlow reveals, its...
Strong Connections
The ubiquity of mobile telephones and computing devices is both inescapable and indispensable in the digital age. These hubs of technological convergence have become vital conduits through which information can be disseminated, knowledge cultivated...
A Prize Pick
Founded in 1967 by Raymond Ackerman, the Pick n Pay supermarket chain has grown from just four small Cape Town shops to a retail empire of over 1100 grocery stores and 20 hypermarkets across South Africa and the African continent. Pick n Pay has a...
Lighting Up Lives In A New Era
Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited (TANESCO) owns the vast majority of the electricity generating, transmitting and distributing facilities across the Tanzania Mainland. It was one of two private enterprises to be established at Dar es Salaam...
Continued Growth for Care Giants
At Netcare, the key word is care. Whether this means ensuring the dignity of its patients and the members of the Netcare family or the participation of its people and its partners in everything it does, Netcare is passionate about quality care and...
Powering Development in Swaziland
After a strong 2016, Swaziland-based Montigny is now focusing its attention on ambitious plans to build a biomass power plant that could end up supplying 30% of the country’s electricity demand in a clean, safe and renewable manner....
ET Carbon Disclosure Leader Award for Kumba
Kumba Iron Ore, part of Anglo American, has been named as a Carbon Disclosure Leader for 2016 by Engaged Tracking (ET) Index Research, a company that ranks the world’s largest companies according to greenhouse gas emissions and disclosure....
Creating a Pan-African Paint and Coatings Business
After being acquired by Japanese company Kansai Paint in 2011, South Africa’s Plascon paint brand is now aiming for market leadership across the entire African continent. Kansai Plascon Africa CEO, Farid Masood, tells Enterprise Africa that the...
An Original African Outfitter
Alongside a myriad of other factors, increased urbanisation is helping to drive retail in South Africa. From its foundation in 1947 in Johannesburg as a family owned men’s outfitter, John Craig has grown to now encompass 60 stores nationwide, a...