{"id":101612,"date":"2015-10-19T14:45:58","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T12:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=101612"},"modified":"2015-10-19T14:45:58","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T12:45:58","slug":"eoh-buys-rail-tech-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/101612\/eoh-buys-rail-tech-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"EOH buys rail tech firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listed ICT group, EOH has acquired rail automation and technology company, Mehleketo.<\/p>\n<p>Mehleketo has a turnover of over R300 million, technology partnerships with the major international rail automation technology OEM\u2019s and about 350 employees.<\/p>\n<p>The group focuses on rail signaling, communications engineering and systems integration in South Africa and has a number of long-term project and maintenance and support contracts with the major operators in the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to EOH Group CEO, Asher Bohbot, the acquisition is part of the company&#8217;s growth strategy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our Industrial Technology division, of which rail technology is part, is a major component of our growth strategy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This division\u2019s services, which are critical for the infrastructure development required in South Africa and the rest of Africa, include services and solutions in energy, water, connectivity and transport \/ rail,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on EOH<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/82257\/eoh-sees-massive-jump-in-earnings\/\">EOH sees massive jump in earnings<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"EOH full-year revenue surges 42%\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/68676\/eoh-full-year-revenue-surges-42\/\"><strong>EOH full-year revenue surges 42%<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"EOH lifts earnings by 40%\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/45708\/eoh-lifts-full-year-earnings-40\/\"><strong>EOH lifts earnings by 40%<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listed ICT group, EOH has acquired rail automation and technology company, Mehleketo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[25,1957],"class_list":["post-101612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-active","tag-eoh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101614,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101612\/revisions\/101614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}