Case Studies

Acumen is a business solution incubator with built-in leadership, management, skills, knowledge, experience, capability and capacity to take ideas that are good for business and humanity, from the earliest stages of development to working products and profitable companies.

Acumen invests in and help to build companies that make doing business simpler, easier, smarter, more efficient, profitable and fun through the intelligent use of technology.

Acumen is currently engaging promising new opportunities that fit into Mobile, Financial, Retail, BIG DATA, Internet of Things (IoT) and Data Sciences area.

Safintra is one of Africa’s leading manufacturers and suppliers of world-class metal roof sheeting. The company produces a range of roof profiles that are branded and therefore carry its quality assurance on both profiling and material. All profiles are complemented by a range of roofing flashings for standard and customised applications.

In addition, Safintra sells quality-assured fasteners and a range of polycarbonate sheet products for natural lighting. The company offers specialist technical support services to its customers and has branches in Johannesburg, Durban, Cape Town, Polokwane, Nelspruit, Port Elizabeth and Bloemfontein.

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FiberLean® Technologies is the leading global producer of Micro-Fibrillated Cellulose (MFC). Their process is robust, reliable and scalable. The product coming out of the FiberLean® Technologies proprietary process is a MFC-mineral composite. The mineral plays an essential role in the transfer of mechanical energy, transforming regular pulp into MFC. This also allows the use of robust and reliable industrial equipment.

Easy Greens Farming and Farm Produce provides farming services, horticultural specialities and fresh produce to the community. The business is located at Plot 149 Springbokstreet, Waterval Pretoria, Gauteng.

Villa Crop Protection is a Wholesale Manufacturer and Supplier of Herbicides, Fungicides, Insecticides and other crop protection products to the industry. We distribute product through Dealer such as Laeveld Agrochem, Inteligro etc, across the country. Villa is owned by Winfield United USA, which is part of the Land O’ Lakes Group in the USA. Villa resides in a holding company Winfield United South Africa.

KOLOK is the largest distributor of computer consumables in Africa. Some of our top brands are Hewlett Packard, Samsing, Lexmark, Canon , Pantum and Epson. KOLOK has been in business for over 50 years, and has been the leading distributor of computer consumables for over 20 years.

Puma Energy is an integrated global energy company like no other. When we say we fuel journeys, we are not just talking about putting gasoline or diesel in your tank, or providing high quality fuel to some of the world’s largest airlines, shipping companies and power suppliers. It goes further than that. For us, Fuelling Journeys is about making a real difference to all of our customers and the life in the communities we serve.

Helukabel SA is a subsidiary of Helukabel GmbH a German Based Global leader in the manufacturing and distribution of Electrical Cables, wires and accessories.
Helukabel is Based in over sixty locations across the globe and has a product profile of well over 33000-line items.