wiGroup South Africa: Building A Fintech Empire in Electronic Payments
“We are definitely expanding into Africa.”
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“We have done a lot of work in repositioning their business models and specifically with business model innovation. It is not about what product or service that you are selling, it is about how you position it and how you create the business model around it that gets it to market.”
“If you look at South Africa, many South African companies are sitting on piles of cash and they aren’t investing it. The question is why? You have to unlock their confidence in the country to invest that money.”
Productions look to capture South African scenery, exchange rates and rebates.
“South Africa is known in the industry as having very strong environmental safeguards and it expects a lot from its oil and gas operators.”
The largest and deepest natural port in the Southern Hemisphere.
“Our strategy is to go into these markets and highlight these higher-tier wines, showing the unique styles and varietals we have to offer,” says Siobhan Thompson, CEO of Wines of South Africa (WOSA).
“Exports actually spiked in 2013 because South Africa had a lot of wine to offer the world at a time when it had low supplies due to various factors such as droughts and fires,” explains Siobhan Thompson, CEO of Wines of South Africa (WOSA).
“I think the government’s biggest challenge is going to be funding it adequately. Do we have the tax base in this country to fund such a program?” asks Dr Kit Vaughan, CEO of CapeRay.
“There are people with good ideas; here in the Western Cape we have four institutions of higher learning, each of which has an engineering faculty and two of them have medical faculties and so in the medical device space there is every opportunity for new products to be developed,” says Dr Kit Vaughan, CEO of CapeRay.