The world of retail according to Massmart's Lamberti 2006-01-22 06:00:01
Mark Lamberti, the chief executive and deputy chairman of Massmart, told Nick Segal how he built one of the biggest distributors of consumer goods in southern Africa, with sales of about R30 billion expected in the financial year to end-June this year.
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Greg Maloka finds his mojo in the youth market 2006-01-20 06:00:01
Greg Maloka, the former station manager of YFM, this month joined research company Instant Grass as a partner and shareholder (with a 15 percent stake) after being with the Gauteng-based youth radio station since its inception eight years ago.
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Chris Rolfe gets active to expand Virgin's gyms in SA 2006-01-13 06:00:01
Richard Branson's Virgin Management, which sold 54 percent of its Virgin Active Group of health clubs to a UK company, Bridgeport Capital, to help Virgin Atlantic Airways' cash flow after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US in 2001, has bought it back for an undisclosed sum.
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The world is not yet nearly as flat as Friedman says it is 2005-12-15 06:00:01
Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat is a fascinating read, especially while visiting one of the nations that is supposed to thrive amid the borderless world created by globalisation and technology. In my case, Sri Lanka.
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Ralph Havenstein isn't embarrassed to ask the stupid questions 2005-12-09 06:00:01
Driving in his 4x4 and reading history is how Ralph Havenstein, the chief executive of Anglo Platinum (Angloplat), likes to relax when he is not trying to turn the world's largest platinum producer from its culture of excess.
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Raymond Ackerman aims to win the epic petrol wars 2005-12-02 06:00:01
In his second book, The Four Legs of the Table, Pick 'n Pay's founder and chairman, Raymond Ackerman, talks about the "petrol war" and notes that while most of the retail giants' commodity wars were fought in short, sharp bursts, "our petrol wars have consolidated into an epic, with even today no cessation of hostilities in sight".
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Nomkhita Nqweni shows the way for black women 2005-11-25 06:00:01
The release of the final black economic empowerment (BEE) codes of good practice has once more thrown the spotlight on transformation, and allowed business to pause and take stock of the progress that has been made so far.
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Strive Masiyiwa is sure the sun will come out tomorrow 2005-11-18 06:00:01
After fighting the Zimbabwean government for four years in the early 1990s over a telephone licence, little did Strive Masiyiwa know that his company, Econet Wireless Group, would turn into a global player in the telecommunications industry. Masiyiwa, the chief executive of Econet, has been in the telecoms business for more than 20 years.
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Sifting fiction from fact: Mzi Khumalo bares all 2005-11-11 06:00:01
The irrepressible and elusive Mzi Khumalo is reckoned to be one of the richest men in South Africa. Asked just how much he is worth, the usually shoot-from-the-hip tycoon clams up. However, that seems to be the only thing this former Robben Island inmate and Umkhonto we Sizwe operative won't talk about or poke fun at.
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Uhambo deal is competitive, says Zellah Fuphe 2005-10-28 06:00:01
Zellah Fuphe is the managing director of Worldwide African Investment Holdings, the energy-focused black economic empowerment (BEE) group that has a 20 percent stake in Engen. If the competition tribunal approves the merger of Sasol's and Engen's liquid fuel businesses, Worldwide will hold 12.5 percent of the new entity, Uhambo Oil.
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Penwarden keeps SA Home Loans thinking 2005-10-14 06:00:01
Kevin Penwarden, the dynamic chief executive of SA Home Loans, is bursting with ideas about how to take the company forward. Penwarden talked about his tough early business life and the lasting effect it has had on his character and career.
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Dippenaar will keep his finger on FirstRand's pulse 2005-10-07 06:00:01
FirstRand will go down in history as South Africa's first major banking group to appoint a black chief executive.
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Marian Kopp hopes new African wine brand will have the golden touch 2005-09-30 06:00:01
Golden Kaan, a wine brand developed in a joint venture between KWV and Racke, a 150-year-old German wine business, has been launched in the local market.
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Cohen relishes regulating a more competitive market 2005-09-23 06:00:01
Tracy Cohen is one of three female councillors at the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa).
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Wizzit has done its homework, says Mphahlele 2005-09-16 06:00:01
After three years of research and preparatory work, Wizzit Bank was launched last November with the slogan: "My bank in my pocket."
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Trade and industry director-general has a reputation as a steely negotiator 2005-09-09 06:00:01
A soft handshake from Tshediso Matona, the acting director-general at the department of trade and industry (dti), gives no hint of his strengths as a tough-talking and uncompromising deal maker.
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Kebble is glad to quit as chief executive, as leading companies is not his strong point 2005-09-02 06:00:01
Nicky Smith talked to Brett Kebble the week he announced he was resigning as chief executive from JCI, Randgold & Exploration and gold producer Western Areas.
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Verimark's Van Straaten lives for his business 2005-08-26 06:00:01
Michael van Straaten, the chief executive of Verimark, does not sit still for a minute. He is clearly a man on a mission.
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Fear of flying keeps Qhena firmly grounded 2005-08-19 06:00:01
The chief executive of the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) Geoffrey Qhena does not like helicopters, the favourite mode of transport of his predecessor, Khaya Ngqula. "They do not look stable to me," he says.
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Mkangelwa is the other side of empowerment 2005-08-12 06:00:01
Youth and dreadlocks are the two things that stand out most when initially meeting 28-year-old Luvuyo Mkangelwa, the executive director of Sakhikamva Investments.
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How De Mardt built a leading liquor group 2005-08-05 06:00:01
From a two-person operation, Pernod Ricard South Africa has grown to become the fourth-largest liquor company in South Africa.
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New skipper to navigate employment equity 2005-07-29 06:00:01
Mzwanele Jimmy Manyi was appointed this week by labour minister Membathisi Mdladlana as the new chairman of the Commission for Employment Equity.
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Gxilishe targets skills for life for the jobless 2005-07-22 06:00:01
Bongani Gxilishe, a former correctional services commissioner for the Western Cape and Eastern Cape, has been appointed deputy director-general of the department of public works, tasked with steering the vital expanded public works programme that aims to create 1 million jobs over five years.
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Tau-Mzamane paves way for black farmers 2005-07-15 06:00:01
Nthoana Tau-Mzamane has served on the boards of the National Research Foundation and the CSIR. She has been a member of the executive committee of the National Science and Technology Forum, and is a member of the board of the National Advisory Council on Innovation in the ministry of science and technology.
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Michael Flemming lifts the lid on healthcare 2005-07-08 06:00:01
Michael Flemming is the chief executive of Life Healthcare, which has been sold to a black economic empowerment consortium, Bidco, which is led by Brimstone Investments and Mvelaphanda Investments, for R3.7 billion.
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For Gordon, perfectionism is a way of life 2005-07-01 06:00:01
Donald Gordon, founder and chairman of Liberty Life Group, has spent 54 years in business carving a career path that culminated in the creation of a property group that is the largest owner of shopping centres in the UK and Europe.
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Charting a new route for small business 2005-06-24 06:00:01
Xola Sithole, the managing director of Khula Enterprise, is faced with the huge task of making a success of an institution that has often been criticised for poor delivery. He has come up with a new strategy that involves shifting resources to where they are needed most
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Jacob Modise hunts for BEE opportunities 2005-06-10 06:00:01
Batsomi Group, which means hunters in Setswana, plans to build up its assets in different sectors, which would pave a way for it to list on the JSE Securities Exchange. Jacob Modise, the former chief operating officer of Johnnic Holdings, founded Batsomi and is the executive chairman of the group. He explains Batsomi's strategy and the ups and downs of running his own business.
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