AFRICA NEWS
The Dangote Group recently emerged
as the most admired brand of African
continent origin by consumers, ahead
of telecommunication giant MTN.
Brand Africa 100 was established in
2010, in recognition of the growth of
African brands, which were beginning to
challenge global brands in Africa or lead
global brands in new categories such as
telecommunications.
The aim of Brand Africa is to identify,
acknowledge, and promote African
and global brands that are catalysts for
Africa’s growth, reputation, and value.
The Dangote brand, which is also the
leading brand in Nigeria, came
atop in the fresh ranking of 100
best brands. Describing the brand,
Brand Africa revealed that the
“Nigerian industrial brand Dangote
is the number one African brand
Goscor Lift Truck has moved
into larger premises, since
outgrowing its previous Port
Elizabeth branch. The new facility
doubles the size of the previous
premises and will provide a
comprehensive range of services,
from sales and rentals (both
short and long term) to parts
and services, for all the various
products under the Goscor
Cleaning and GLTC umbrella.
Goscor Cleaning offers
products such as Tennant,
Ghibli, Kaivac, Delfin, and Maer.
Meanwhile, GLTC is the sole
distributor of leading forklift
brands, including Crown, Doosan,
New premises for Goscor Lift Truck
The new branch is now located at the corner of Swartkops
and Broad streets in North End.
Bendi, Hubtex, and BHS Battery Handling Solutions,
allowing the company to offer a full basket of materials
handling and warehousing solutions to its customers.
The new facility conforms to ISO 9001: 2015 standards.
GLTC recently achieved an upgrade from ISO 9001: 2008
to ISO 9001: 2015 as well as OHSAS accreditation, making
it the only forklift company in South Africa to have achieved
both the standards.
recalled when consumers are
prompted about the continent of
origin, while the South African
telecommunications brand MTN
is the number one African brand
spontaneously recalled irrespective
of continent of origin.”
Volkswagen Group South Africa (VWSA) reached
a historical milestone in June 2018, when it
produced its one-millionth EA111 engine.
Production of the EA111 engine started
back in January 2010 when the first engines
for the then new Polo and Polo Vivo were
produced for the local market, which was
followed by producing engines for export
markets including China, India, Taiwan,
Mexico, and Malaysia.
Apart from assembling the engine locally,
the grey cast iron cylinder block for the engine
as well as the bearing cap for the block are
also machined in-house.
The foundation of the EA111 engine’s
success is its reliability and fuel economy
provided by the strong and flexible design
concept that underpins it. Some 350 000 local
customers have taken delivery of a Polo or
Polo Vivo since 2010.
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