“I write a weekly blog about various activities in my field including more generally about medical devices and I have compared the Western Cape as a medical device destination with other areas in the world,” says Dr Kit Vaughan, CEO of CapeRay.
“The revolutionary part is the ability to combine the two technologies. Traditional mammography relies on x-rays and that has been around for forty or fifty years, while ultrasound has also been around for forty or fifty years,” explains Dr Kit Vaughan, CEO of CapeRay.
“CapeRay is a spin out company from the University of Cape Town. It spun out 6 years ago. The focus of the company is the detection of breast cancer; we have developed imaging products that are specifically geared towards women who have dense breast tissue,” says Dr Kit Vaughan, CEO of CapeRay.
“Tourism is a brilliant business. Even with the declining Rand at the moment, it is actually boosting tourism,” notes Richard Lyon, GM of One & Only, the most vibrant resort in the heart of the dynamic Cape Town.
“A big part of the reason why we are seen as a hotbed for innovation has been the success of start-up incubators. Start-up incubators are quite well supported in this region,” says Ryan Ravens, CEO of Accelerate Cape Town.
The top 10 list of the most profitable companies in Ghana is compiled and published by the Marcopolis.net research team. The numerical rankings are calculated from the latest economic reports, companies’ annual reports, and assets and market capitalization information from the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE). The Republic of Ghana is the 11th largest economy in Africa and 85th per the World Bank rankings.
“ACT is the only container terminal in Jordan so we are serving the entire domestic market. The way we are profiling ourselves and marketing ourselves is ‘location, location, location’,” explains Jeppe Nymann Jensen, CEO of Aqaba Container Terminal (ACT).
“Traditionally we have seen 30% of our throughput volumes being transited to Iraq. It is now down to about 2.5%. We anticipate that 2016 will be a difficult year but we do hope that there will be some improvement in Iraq,” says Jeppe Nymann Jensen, CEO of Aqaba Container Terminal (ACT).
“My father’s vision was always to produce a great wine of Jordan and he always believed that this country could produce one of the greatest wines in the world. I don’t think he is mistaken,” says Omar Zumot, the Winemaker (Zumot Wines, Saint George).
“The Jordanian wine industry has been around for some time now. It went through a major revival twenty years ago. The quality of wine has improved dramatically since 1999 or 2000. In Jordan we produce about 1 million bottles of wine every year,” says Omar Zumot, the Winemaker (Zumot Wines, Saint George).
