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It is with great pride that we publish our latest 'Gearing for Growth' Directory, responsible for

introducing and proling entrepreneurs currently on our Johannesburg Enterprise and Supplier

Development (ESD) Programme. This programme specically targets existing black owned businesses,

operating within the JHB / Pretoriametropoles, with annual turnovers ranging from

R250 000 to

R10million

. Accordingly, all our 'Hopepreneurs' are rated

B-BBEE Level 1

In many ways, this Directory brings to life those very lives we exist to mentor and impact. Lives on which

the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Codes have been based, and which give

meaning to the transformation journey we as a nation have undertaken.

With the advent of the changes to the Codes, relating to the introduction of

Supplier Development

this directory is very practical in nature too. That is, the entrepreneurs within these pages all possess one

unanimous desire; the expansion of their customer database through the

accessing of newmarkets

. A

question we would therefore like you as the reader to consider is,

“Who can I do business with

today?”

We do feel this is one of the most important, powerful and socially responsible questions, any business

can ask of itself in South Africa today. The role of corporate South Africa in particular, in providing a

procurement springboard

to South Africa's vast formal and semi-formal SME's industry, is a national

imperative – and something we at The Hope Factory are intensely committed to facilitating. From an

access to markets perspective, it highlights the need for corporates to collaborate and network together

in order to give our Hopepreneurs a platform to exhibit their products and services.

Apart from our agship ESD programme, The Hope Factory also specializes in special projects

promoting Supplier Development. In this, we offer tailor made outsourced projects to suit your industry

and your specic needs.

In closing, we thank you for your ongoing support and for partnering with us as we grow

people, develop businesses and impact communities.

We look forward to the impact this 'Gearing for Growth' Directory will have, in empowering you and our

entrepreneurs, to achieve the sustainable and transformed economy we all

Hope

for.

Yours in Enterprise & Supplier Development,

The Hope Factory

GEARING FOR GROWTH