PMR.africa Awards for local businesses

A number of local businesses started their week on a high note when they were awarded for their excellence in service during the annual PMR.africa Awards ceremony hosted at Sun Meropa on Monday.
The awards ceremony not only provides an opportunity to network with other role players in the business fraternity of Limpopo it also creates an opportunity and platform where PMR.africa’s coveted Diamond, Gold, Silver and Bronze awards can be handed over to companies, institutions and individuals that have excelled during 2016.
PMR.africa is a division of CJ Hattingh & Sons, a consultancy and research company based in South Africa. Chief Executive Office Johan Hattingh informed guests that
PMR.africa wants to acknowledge the contributions and initiatives, strategies, effort and hard work of businesses in the province.
He added that the purpose of the awards is to enhance competitiveness, to create a unique marketing and sales tool, to set a benchmark in industries and to acknowledge staff.
“There is a successful team behind each successful and highly rated company, department or individual. Respect yourself, respect everybody you deal with and everything will be okay,” Hattingh said.
The awards are based on a survey done and the criteria entailed companies/institutions that have done most to enhance economic growth and development of the province; levels of managerial expertise; implementation of corporate governance; brand awareness and levels of innovation.
Hattingh added that the PMR Award can be used by businesses to target a specific audience, submitted during a tender process, added to annual reports or brochures and marketing material, to set a benchmark and to generate general awareness.
The keynote speaker, acting Director at Turf­loop Graduate School of Leadership, University of Limpopo, Mankolo Lethoko emphasised the importance for businesses to touch lives of individuals every year during their business process. “If you do not win today, double your efforts for next year. Excellence is doing the ordinary thing extraordinary well,” she said.
She touched on the subject of gratitude saying that management or business owners should take the time to thank their employees and to even reward them. Create a culture of gratitude. Hand them a small certificate of appreciation or get involved in their personal lives to understand what they really need. Offer to pay school fees or to buy their children’s books or school shoes. Know what your people need. Gratitude is a virtue of the highest excellence, Lethoko said.
She also motivated business personalities present to put effort in their Corporate Social Responsibility by either adopting a school or orphanage or by sponsoring a local sport team. On excellence she said that a definition thereof entails the quality of being outstanding or extremely good.

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Limpopo winners of PMR.africa Awards acknowledged for excellence

Accounting and auditing firms:
>> Diemont, Zimmerman & Bolink (Diamond)
>> KPMG (Gold)
Architects:
>> Prism Architects (Diamond)
Agriculture, dairy farming:
>> Limpopo Dairy (Diamond)
Agriculture, grain processing:
>> Progress Milling (Diamond)
Agriculture, grain handling:
>> NTK Limpopo Agric (Diamond)
Agriculture, suppliers of equipment:
>> NTK Limpopo Agric (Diamond)
Airports:
>> Gateway Airports Authority Limited (Diamond)
Auctioneers:
>> Suduco Asset Auctioneers (Diamond)
Business Consultants:
>> Rens Business Consultants (Diamond)
>> KPM (Gold)
Building material supplies:
>> E.H. Hassim (Gold)
Butcheries:
Vleislapa (Diamond)
Casinos and entertainment centres:
>> Sun Meropa (Diamond)
Cleaning companies:
>> Bidvest Prestige (Diamond)
Company conducting business in the most ethical way:
>> Rens Business Consultats (Diamond)
Company doing most to fight crime:
>> Chub Fire & Security (Diamond)
Company doing most to promote the interest of women:
>> Kopano Bus Service (Diamond)
Conference and convention centres:
>> Protea Hotel by Marriot Ranch Resort (Diamond)
Construction companies:
>> Hillary Construction (Diamond)
Courier companies:
>> DHL Express Limpopo
Data centres:
>> Burika IT (Diamond)
Executive Guesthouses:
>> Limpopo Guest Manor
Executive Hotels:
>> Protea Hotel by Marriot Ranch Resort (Diamond)
Executive lodges:
>> Tzaneen Country Lodge (Diamond)
Food manufacturers:
>> SAMCO Foods (Diamond)
>> Progress Milling (Diamond)
Institutions for tertiary education:
>> University of Venda (Diamond)
>> University of Limpopo (Gold)
>> Tshwane University of Technology (Gold)
Insurance brokers:
>> Etkeila Insurance brokers (Diamond)
Insurance companies, short term:
>> Old Mutual Insure (Diamond)
IT consulting companies:
>> Burika IT (Diamond)
IT sales and services:
>> CHM Vuwani (Diamond)
>> Burika IT (Gold)
IT training institutions:
>> CTU Training Solutions (Diamond)
Law firms:
>> DDKK Inc (Diamond)
Local manufacturers of goods:
>> Polokwane Chemical Suppliers (Diamond)
Local newspapers:
>> Polokwane Observer (Diamond)
>> Northern Media Group (Gold)
Local radio stations:
>> Capricorn FM (Diamond)
Local transport companies:
>> Kopano Bus Service (Diamond)
>> Limpopo Coaches (Gold)
Municipality doing most to attract foreign investment:
>> Polokwane Municipality (Gold)
Municipality doing most to attract tourism:
>> Polokwane Municipality (Gold)
Municipality doing most for social upliftment:
>> Polokwane Municipality (Diamond)
Municipality doing most to attract local investment:
>> Polokwane Municipality (Diamond)
Municipality doing most for job creation:
>> Polokwane Municipality (Diamond)
Municipality doing most to clean the environment:
>> Polokwane Municipality (Diamond)
Personnel recruitment agencies:
>> Boss Personnel (Diamond)
Pest control companies:
>> Pest Control Specialists (Diamond)
Pharmaceutical retailers:
>> Dis-Chem Polokwane North (Diamond)
Private hospitals:
>> Netcare Pholoso Hospital (Diamond)
Private schools:
>> PEPPS Polokwane Preparatory School and College (Diamond)
Pro-active mayors:
>> Polokwane Executive Mayor Thembi Nkadimeng (Diamond)
Property management companies:
>> Moolman Group Property Management
Provincial government departments doing most to accelerate service delivery:
>> Coghsta (Diamond)
Real estate agents:
>> Aïda Properties Polokwane (Diamond)
>> RE/MAX Northland Realty (Gold)
Retail stores, food:
>> Limpopo Spar (Diamond)
Office automation companies:
>> Nashua Limpopo
Security companies:
>> Chub Fire & Security (Diamond)
>> G4S Cash Solutions (Gold)
Shopping centres:
>> Mall of the North (Diamond)
Spas:
>> Tzaneen Country Lodge (Diamond)
>> House of Asante (Gold)
Stationery suppliers:
>> Bidvest Waltons (Diamond)
Suppliers of hygiene equipment and products:
>> Polokwane Chemical Suppliers (Diamond)
Tractors and farming implements:
>> NTK Limpopo Agric (Diamond)
Transport companies:
>> RSA Removals (Diamond)
Travel agents:
>> Reatswelela Travel and Tours (Diamond)
Waste management companies:
>> Anti-Waste (Diamond)
Wedding venues:
>> Tzaneen Country Lodge (Diamond)
>> Protea Hotel by Marriott Ranch Resort (Diamond)