Glad that BEE thrives in Midrand
MIDRAND - Midrand-based engineering consultancy, GladAfrica Group, announced the acquisition of Ariya Project Managers.
The acquisition gears GladAfrica to be the largest 100 percent black-owned consultancy group in southern Africa.
GladAfrica’s executive chairman, Noel Mashaba said, “We wanted to create a completely African-born organisation within the built environment while realising our vision of creating life-changing built environment solutions.
“The group will now operate and offer full services in all nine provinces in South Africa with a strengthened project management capacity and the ability to further customise our comprehensive selection of project management services.”
Ariya is wholly black-owned with 35 percent black women shareholders, as well as being a level 2 B-BBEE (broad-based black economic empowerment).
And although GladAfrica will retain its engineering consulting arm, the group will establish a new specialised company to focus primarily on project management services, including development management, tenant co-ordination and installation and procurement management. Ariya’s current managing director, Sigi Naidoo, will continue as MD of the new entity.
Naidoo said, “We embraced this opportunity to join the GladAfrica team in a joint pursuance of delivering innovative engineering and project management solutions. I have no doubt that, together, we will create a notable force in the built environment consulting sector.”
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