{"id":162965,"date":"2017-03-09T09:14:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T07:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=162965"},"modified":"2017-03-09T09:14:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T07:14:22","slug":"the-best-run-companies-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/162965\/the-best-run-companies-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"The best-run companies in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The inaugural Top 500 Awards were held at Melrose Arch on Tuesday (7 March) listing the best-managed companies cross over 100 different business sectors in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The ranking\u00a0uses a\u00a0methodology designed in conjunction with the University of Cape Town\u2019s Development Policy Research Unit. It\u00a0\u00a0covers three key\u00a0metrics including financial performance, empowerment, and policy and accreditation.<\/p>\n<p>According to the criteria, the winning companies have to not only excel in their specific sectors, but also have to have a strong set of social, empowerment and development policies in place.<\/p>\n<p>Anglo American South Africa was awarded the top prize as the best-managed company in South Africa, beating out stiff competition from favourites\u00a0Naspers, Zeder Investments and Woolworths.<\/p>\n<p>Other big award winners included Mercedes Benz South Africa, Woolworths, Adcorp, Bidvest, EOH and Flight Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Viewed collectively, the companies standing for awards comprised the majority\u00a0of the regional economy, employing over 800,000 people and contributing a total of R109 billion towards economic growth every year, said Ralf Fletcher, CEO of Topco Media.<\/p>\n<p>Their importance was echoed by keynote speaker home affairs minister, Malusi Gigaba, who emphasised the importance of reigniting economic growth and building a South Africa that is inclusive to all.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of winners in the biggest award categories are detailed below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bt_table\">\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"50%\"><strong>Sector<\/strong><\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"50%\"><strong>Company<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Resources<\/td>\n<td>Anglo American South African Ltd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Basic Industries<\/td>\n<td>Engen Petroleum Ltd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>General Industrials<\/td>\n<td>Bidvest Group Ltd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Consumer Goods<\/td>\n<td>Mercedes Benz South Africa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals<\/td>\n<td>Discovery Health Medical Scheme<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Retail<\/td>\n<td>Woolworths Holdings Ltd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Hospitality<\/td>\n<td>Flight Centre<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Media<\/td>\n<td>Napsers Limited<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Business Support Services<\/td>\n<td>Adcorp Holdigs Limited<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Transport<\/td>\n<td>Bidvest Panalpina Logistics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Financial Services<\/td>\n<td>Standar Bank of South Africa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>ICT<\/td>\n<td>EOH Holdings Limited<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Overall winner<\/td>\n<td>Anglo American South African Ltd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/162417\/why-you-should-consider-adding-this-south-african-company-to-your-stock-portfolio\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why this South African company is a good stock pick right now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inaugural Top 500 Awards were held at Melrose Arch on Tuesday (7 March) listing the best managed companies across over across 100 different business sectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":162995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-162965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162965","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=162965"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163013,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162965\/revisions\/163013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}