Case studies - Edge Growth

Edge Growth has worked with clients in a variety of industries and projects; ranging from ED strategy and programme design, enterprise development opportunity assessments to training consultants on how to select good businesses to invest in. Below is a summary of a number of our clients.

Growth Accelerator: Unlocking Explosive Growth in SMEs

Below follows a case study illustrating how our support approach unlocked explosive growth in one of AfriCap’s portfolio companies.We were asked to work with a Ghanaian Microfinance Bank in dire straits; using our Growth Accelerator in a two month support programme, we turned the company around Read more 

Enterprise Development Strategy

Edge Growth worked with FNB to develop their Enterprise Development strategy. FNB had embarked on an ED programme within the framework of the Financial Services Charter, and needed to adapt their strategy and programmes to comply with the BEE Codes. Edge Growth investigated the opportunities available to FNB, discovering that the most effective and efficient way to deliver the highest impact was through the development of an Enterprise Development fund in partnership with Edge Growth. Read more

BHP Billiton

Edge Growth worked with BHP Manganese the international mining company to set up their Enterprise Development Strategy and design the organization that would run and manage their Enterprise Development spend. 
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Optimum Coal

Optimum Coal, the largest privately owned colliery in South Africa commissioned Edge Growth to design their Enterprise Development strategy and integrate it with their Preferential Procurement strategy. This involved determining the opportunities available to the company to improve their overall BEE score in the shortest possible time all the while delivering social economic and shareholder value. Read more

Sonae Novoboard

Edge Growth was asked by Sonae to investigate a potential Enterprise Development opportunity within their Veneer business (a wood panel product). Sonae had to determine whether they wanted to take the business on as an enterprise development project or outsource the business to partners in the space. Edge Growth was required to investigate the opportunity; the costs and the benefits of embarking on the project to determine the appropriate strategy for  for the business and the implications on the holding company  Read more

Barloworld Siyakhula

Barloworld has established the Siyakhula fund, a fund designed to manage the ED contributions and projects for all their South African underlying businesses. The Barloworld companies allocate their Enterprise Development spend to Siyakhula, who then selects and invests in SMEs on their behalf.

Edge Growth was commissioned to assist Barloworld in developing the enterprise development strategy that would drive Siyakula’s activities, investments and projects. The strategy would need to cater for the integration and co-ordination of investments across a number of different companies to ensure that they not only stimulate the creation of socio-economic impact but that it would benefit Barloworld at large and the individual Barloworld companies who committed capital into the fund. Read more

Supplier Diversity

National Business Institute and SAIBL

Edge Growth in partnership with the ELI programme, developed a Supplier Diversity Benchmark Study aimed at assisting corporate South Africa with the development of their enterprise development and preferential procurement programmes. ELI, a joint venture between the National Business Institute and South African International Business Linkages, was developed to fast track the transformation of the South African business landscape through supplier diversity. Supplier diversity is defined as the process of incorporating empowered and small businesses into corporate supply chains. Read more

Picking Sound Companies

SAIBL

Edge Growth was commissioned by SAIBL to develop a training course to equip their consultants to  identify and select Sound Companies. SAIBL, South African Business Linkages Programme, was designed to build the competitiveness of black enterprises through improvements in management, productivity and quality. They aim to identify and select black enterprises that can be linked to corporate supply chains as well as enterprises that with a few SAIBL interventions will be able to be linked to corporate supply chains. Read more