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South AfricaWater supply sewerage waste management and remediation activities
Entrepreneurs Leverage Cleanliness
The soap and cleaning product manufacturing industry has created a number of innovative entrepreneurial start-ups such as Durban- based Elegant Line Chemicals founded by Nelly Shezi in 2007 which manufactures cleaning products and polishes for the domestic, industrial and automotive markets.
Other service activitiesSouth Africa
The Dry Cleaning and Laundry Industry Presents Franchise Opportunities for SMMEs
Although off-premise laundries have come under pressure as a result of a cyclical shift to on-premise laundry operations especially in the healthcare industry, the laundry sector still benefits significantly from ad-hoc outsourcing of laundry functions by government agencies. A number of franchise opportunities such as Laundry Dynamics, Pressed in Time, Eazi Laundromatic and Fresh Laundry have arisen.
Other service activitiesSouth Africa
Clarity About Investors Will Aid Graft War
SOUTH African company law has historically favoured those wishing to obscure corporate ownership. The clandestine section 15A of the Companies Act of 1973 allowed apartheid ministers of trade and industry...
South AfricaTransportation and storage
South African Taxi Industry
Taxi drivers are not the most popular people the world over, most certainly in South Africa. But there can be few more successful examples of creating order from chaos as...
South AfricaWater supply sewerage waste management and remediation activities
Waste Not Want Not
On his seven hour journey in February this year from Moscow to the Russian town of Rybinsk on the Volga River Philip Malandrinos did not know if his headache was...
Democratic Republic of the CongoTransportation and storage
Aviation in the DRC (CA)
It was reported that Mobutu Seso Seko president of then Zaire chartered the Concorde to visit his dentist in Paris. He built a runway long enough to land the Concorde...
Other service activitiesSouth Africa
The SA Corporate Scene 1980 to 2010
2014 sees in 20 years of South African democracy, and the 34th edition of Who Owns Whom. An advantage of the printed book is that it provides an historical snapshot...