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not simply a family-owned business, but they have
watched the families that shop with them grow. Today
grandparents, who shopped at Hirsch’s when they
were in their teens, still shop with them – alongside
their own children and grandchildren.
The finalists are:
The Ramsi Group
Beekman Group
Digital/System Implementation
This award is for those businesses that employ digital
thinking and technologies that have had an impact on Imperial Armour: Grant Adlam, Louisa Garland, and Imraan
their business operations. Noorbhai
The winner is Plennegy Group.
Founded in 1958, the Plennegy Group’s roots and
purpose revolve around agriculture, with its core
business being that of growing food and servicing
those who grow food, to feed and nourish the
continent and beyond. The Plennegy Group started
its digital transformation journey a year before the
Covid-19 pandemic hit – with investments in cloud
infrastructure; virtual meetings via Microsoft Teams;
a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) system for
the Group; exploring digital automation in processing
transactions so as to free up employees’ time to focus Hirsch’s: The Hirsch family – Margaret, Richard, Luci, Allan
on growing the business or growing their knowledge;
and exploring software solutions to address specific
areas of the business, such as control and advanced
inventory management.
The team has embarked on several new projects that
will catapult the Plennegy Group to the forefront of
technology and make Plennegy a leader in the digital
agriculture space.
The finalists are:
Blue Security
Toyota South Africa Motors
Future Farmers Plennegy: Heinrich Joubert, Michael Yeadon,
and Hameed Noormahomed
Employee Wellbeing
This award is for businesses that go the extra mile to
engage their staff members and the difference this
makes to the business. This may be through in-house
training, flexible working, personal development,
workplace wellbeing activity and teambuilding.
The winner is MCS Debt Recovery.
MCS Debt Recovery’s success has been based on
treating its staff as assets, consequently the company
has a highly productive workforce. Motivating staff in
the call centre environment is of prime concern and
MCS Debt Recovery retains staff by offering good MCS Debt Recovery: Rajeshree Naidoo, Saskia Hill, and
incentives and delivers on what is promised. Lee Anne Dhorie
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