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BUSINESSFIT

David White Akhona Mahlati Bruce Lennon
www.businessfit.co.za

WHAT IS BUSINESSFIT? and staff development growth opportunities, while
providing an acceptable return to the shareholders.
BusinessFit is an established Enterprise and Supplier
Development Beneficiary; providing business BusinessFit’s passion is to grow entrepreneurs
support services to entrepreneurs and developing and their businesses, and to encourage a culture
of continuous improvement in the delivery of core
businesses. As such, the company is well positioned competencies, client relationships and therefore,
to help you invest your enterprise and supplier the provision of job opportunities. The company’s
development spend wisely, and in so doing, you are contribution, as such, is to bring emerging businesses
able to:
into a circle of expertise, assess their current systems,
� Optimise your B-BBEE rating, an essential structures, and goals, and set in motion necessary
ingredient in ensuring enterprise sustainability, leadership and best practice support procedures to
as an indicator of corporate governance best encourage the businesses’ development and growth.
practice How do they do this?
� Secure the sustainability and growth of your
suppliers, and/or any business not in your In line with the B-BBEE Codes of Good Practice,
supply chain but which you choose to support BusinessFit will:
� Contribute to the broader South African � Confirm that intended beneficiaries meet the
economy definition of “Black Owned” as per the B-BBEE
Act
Who is BusinessFit?
� Assist such beneficiaries in expanding their
BusinessFit is a formally constituted Black female businesses through interactive workshops,
owned enterprise comprising a team of experienced coaching and mentorship from industry experts
business owners. These business owners have � Introduce best practice to help beneficiaries
grouped together to pool their respective skills and meet trading, governance and compliance
knowledge, with the common objective of helping responsibilities
support the growth and development of small and � Promote sustainability of beneficiaries’
medium businesses. The team has done this because businesses through a structured plan of
they know that South Africa’s economic future Discover, Develop and Deliver
depends upon a vibrant and ever-growing small and � Work within the client’s supply chain and
medium business sector. enterprise development networks to help them
improve the suppliers’ productivity,
An important principle for BusinessFit is to help
an entrepreneur understand that his/her business sustainability and service quality
idea is not in itself a business. What is critical is � Support the overall development of
supporting their “Business idea” with a sound entrepreneurs and their businesses
business foundation, from which their business can As has been the case with many developing
become a sustainable and growing quality producer economies, the responsibility of our South African
of products or services to its customers. The business business environment’s growth and sustainability
should have the capacity to create employment lies increasingly in the hands of entrepreneurs

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