The Eastern Gauteng Chamber of Commerce and Industry represents businesses in Nigel, Springs and Brakpan.
One of our projects for this year is to produce the Springs/Nigel/Brakpan business directory.
This is a booklet that attempts to list businesses operating in those three centres.
As you can imagine, this is a mammoth task as the last directory listed some 1 750 businesses.
Every effort is made to ensure that the directory is accurate.
If you have a business and you are not sure whether or not your business is listed in the directory, you should contact Marinda de Waal or Anita Greeff at the Chamber on 011 815 5750/1/2.
The listing is free of charge.
Chamber members and non-members are allowed to advertise in the directory at a cost.
The directory’s purpose is to allow people to search for potential suppliers as well as customers in the tri-town region of Springs, Brakpan and Nigel and it is widely distributed in the region.
This year it is also our intention to distribute the directory to as many of the foreign trade representatives and embassies based in South Africa as possible.
We will also be posting a condensed version with Chamber members only, listed, on our website, as well as sending that version to other chambers of commerce and industry around the world.
Our goal is to get as many people around the world to be aware of the great industrial capacity that resides in this tri-town region of Ekurhuleni, in order to stimulate industrial exports as well as getting the attention of potential investors.
To this end, we urge all businesses in the region who export or import, to join the chamber and become part of this drive to sell the region as an African industrial powerhouse.
We have the manufacturing and engineering skills in the region, as well as the advantage of a weak rand to become a major exporting area, particularly to some of the faster growing African countries that are still developing their mining potential.
Many of our industries were built up on the supply of machinery, components and consumables to the mining industry.
We just need to sell ourselves and our products.
The South African economy is in dire straits and one of the ways to get it out of this situation is through an export-led recovery.
This region has the skills and expertise to be at the forefront of such a recovery and the chamber of commerce and industry needs to bring the industry together to lead such a recovery.
