Corporate Stories

Africa Outlook’s corporate stories highlight the innovation, history, goals, and mission of the companies featured. We provide a deep dive into the world of business and industry, showcasing the people and ideas that are driving progress and shaping the future.

Latest Corporate Stories

Lord Trust Developers : Sustainable Propositions

Lord Trust Developers (Pty) Ltd was established in 2007 to oversee and develop the environmentally friendly and eco-sensitive Lords View Industrial Park (Lords View) and to house the Lord Trust’s land developments division.

Flame Group Of Companies : Taking Pride in Projects

After enjoying unprecedented success in Zambia throughout its first four years of operation, Flame Group has spent the subsequent six diversifying, innovating and expanding as it looks to cement its status as one of the country’s leading market players.

Spencon Holdings Ltd : Constructing Flexibility Across Borders

Spencon Holdings Ltd has defied numerous regional and industrial challenges since its inception in 1979 to expand its extensive portfolio of infrastructure projects to the majority of East Africa.

Betts Townsend : Investing from the Ground-Up

Betts Townsend has spent a significant amount of time working on how it is perceived as a business; while allowing its experience level and portfolio to speak for itself.

Motheo Construction Group : Promoting Economic Empowerment

Now with an order book of more than 1.3 billion rand and around 80,000 houses in its portfolio, Motheo Construction Group hopes to maintain growth levels with blue-sky thinking and a keen focus on black economic empowerment targets

Airtel Seychelles : Driving innovation, Affordability and Service

As the first venture into Africa, Airtel Seychelles has experienced double-digit growth year-on-year even through tough economic times.

Konkola Copper Mines : Zambia’s Copperbelt Leaders

Since privatisation of parastatal companies in March 2000, Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) has been able to grow its already substantial mining assets, with the help of foreign direct investment (FDI) and support from government shareholders ZCCM-IH and ZCI.

Royal Bafokeng Platinum : More Than Mining

Royal Bafokeng Platinum (RBPlat) is affirming its position as one of South Africa’s leading mining operators through a proactive and concerted strategy to expand its influence across the Rustenberg area.

SAPETRO : West Africa’s Exploration Giants

The West Africa region is rich with resources and an area where mining activity is guaranteed to have a bright future. In line with this, exploration and production companies operating here, such as the indigenous South Atlantic Petroleum (SAPETRO) have witnessed an increase in oil & gas activity in recent years.

Knight Frank Kenya : The Best Buildings in Town

The 50-year tenure of Knight Frank in Africa has seen the region become one of the linchpins in the global property consultancy’s international progression, with the east of the continent leading the way from its hub in Kenya.

Lithon Project Consultants : A One-Stop Shop on the Move

Lithon Project Consultants is strengthening its reputation on a continental scale as the early stages of international expansion pick up pace in South Africa.

Rail2Rail (Pty) Ltd : Indigenous Engineering

Established in 2007 as a home-grown, all-African solution designed to provide much needed upgrades to South Africa’s rail network, Rail2Rail (Pty) Ltd has provided more than three quarters of a million sleepers to Transnet Freight Rail in the country to date.

Aveng Manufacturing : A Leading Example in Safety

Aveng Manufacturing, part of the wider Aveng Group, has had a presence in Africa for more than 125 years as a renowned manufacturer and supplier.

Kansai Plascon : Forward-Thinking Manufacturing

Kansai Plascon can look to the future assured by the strength of its past. Since 1889, Plascon has been the force behind the production of top quality coatings with innovative and ground-breaking technologies, making it southern Africa’s leading coatings manufacturer.

Pandrol South Africa : Trusted Rail Track Solutions Providers

Pandrol has been involved in the rail fastenings industry since 1917 and has supplied fastenings to more than 415 railroads, surpassing the supply of two billion clips worldwide.