Getting to the meat and bones of business

PQM is a 100 per cent black female owned and managed level one BBBEE contributor meat wholesale business that was founded in 2011

Yolanda Klow and Marry Mpho Llale smile after a well conducted meeting.

Prima Quality Meat (PQM) held a business meeting to assist cooperatives and small businesses through their project bases franchising model, where they provide capacity building programmes, corporate governance, and incubation programmes so the businesses can be viable and exist for longer.

Yolanda Klow, the founder, and the manager explained how they are currently working with a group 600 cooperatives within the Gauteng region, and how they trust that their program will be the starting point for radical economic transformation.

PQM is a 100 per cent black female owned and managed level one BBBEE. contributor meat wholesale business that was founded in 2011; the business was officially registered as a PTY LTD.

Richard Williams Rogerson speaks about the technical parts of the business.

Klow identified a solution to empowering the youth and the unemployed within the communities and to equip them in efforts to curb the arm of unemployment and poverty.

She put together a team of stakeholders to come up with a workable structure to equip and incubate all registered cooperatives and (Small, Medium, and Micro-sized Enterprises) SMME’s to play a role in growing the country’s economy.

She said, “Through a coordinated network of over 20000 registered cooperatives and SMME’S in South Africa, we aspire to be the leading authority in business development in South Africa through coaching, mentorship, and the franchising business models to develop a social enterprise.

Mphuti Mphuti, Richard Rogerson and Temwani Kalea while Rogerson explains the business.

“We are powered by a diverse calibre of professional heavyweights, with a cast of a talent bank of over 200 expert organisational development consultants, business coaches, and mentors.”

Pat Mamabolo helped to lead the meeting at the Empowerment Zone in Soweto. He said, “We intend to retain at least a minimum of 10 000 cooperatives and SMME’s across the nine provinces countrywide.

“Most of these registered cooperatives are dysfunctional due to lack of information; funding and capacity building and we took it upon ourselves to champion these cooperatives by creating this unique project for their business sustainability.”

With this initiative, people have the opportunity to buy livestock from local farmers in order to create more jobs and to grow both their businesses and theirs.

Klow said, “Our objective is to sign a joint venture with local farmers to be one of their wholesale customers to service the project. Our model seeks to secure and address cooperative transformation, profitability and continuous employment creation in the new economy.”

PQM’s professional consulting team and content creators are savvy in the mechanics of entrepreneurial development of cooperatives and SMME’s in which they demonstrate a conceptual model for effective ways to build the capacity of co-ops and SMME’s.

Queen Ndlovu attended the meeting and said, “This whole idea sounds perfect, especially the training aspect which will help alleviate unemployment.”