As pioneers of solutions across both land and sea, Carver Companies is an umbrella company operation which spans the construction, maritime and...
Category - Business Profiles
True strength comes from unity. As Aesop illustrates in one of his many fables, an individual stick can be broken, but a bundle of sticks is extremely hard to break. Working together, what we create is often stronger than the sum of our parts...
Ten years since the project took flight, Roma Park has come in to land. Developed by CPD Properties, what was once farmland in the fast-growing Zambian city of Lusaka is now a ready-to-thrive mixed-use development with services, amenities and heaps...
Opened in 1989, Yaya Chemist has spent the past 33 years raising the bar for pharmacies in Kenya. Taking inspiration from her time abroad in Australia and the UK, the chemist’s founder, Smruti Patel, has sought to re-invent what a Kenyan pharmacy...
Founded 35 years ago, FTE Drilling provides its services over a wide reach, with offices and operations in Canada, West Africa, the USA and South America. We spoke with Vincent Gonthier, FTE Drilling’s Director of Business Development, about the...
Electricity: our modern world relies on it. Yet, even in power cuts, when we’re at home, we’re barely affected like we used to be. Why? We’re surrounded by devices powered by batteries. From household items to renewable power stations and electric...
Since 2019, Kenya and other parts of East Africa have been facing the worst locust outbreak in 70 years. Thankfully, Kenya is long-established as the producer of a near-miracle plant that, when processed correctly into an insecticide, is capable of...
Expansions, mergers, construction projects: any sizable investment or move for a company involves, by definition, sizable risks. Could the investment be lost? Could something go wrong, and how? What areas must one mitigate in order to protect the...
The past two years have brought their trials across industries, as well as in our lives, but few sectors were hit like the medical industry. We spoke with Zelda van Staden, National Sales Manager for Sub-Saharan Africa Blood Division of SSEM Mthembu...
Zinc is one of those metals that keeps the world turning. It is used to galvanise other metals, such as iron and steel, and as an alloying metal to make bronze and brass. Without zinc, many of our other, core metals take a hit, making it a silent...
‘Technology metals’ are needed now more than ever. Moving from an industrial mode of living to an electronic one may reduce our use of fossil fuels, but there are other demands that our computers and even our green energy technology make, and these...