{"id":166309,"date":"2017-03-27T11:39:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T09:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=166309"},"modified":"2017-03-27T11:39:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T09:39:56","slug":"brian-joffe-leaves-bidcorp-to-start-own-investment-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/166309\/brian-joffe-leaves-bidcorp-to-start-own-investment-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Joffe leaves Bidcorp to start own investment firm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Executive chairman of foodservice group Bidcorp, Brian Joffe, will step down as CEO at the end of June to launch his own investment firm, the company said in a shareholder statement on Monday.<\/p>\n

“Brian has informed the board that he will be launching a new listed JSE investment vehicle which will not focus on activities competitive with the current Bidcorp’s foodservice business,” said Bidcorp.<\/p>\n

It confirmed that\u00a0Bernard Berson will continue in his role and will remain head of the food services business and Bidcorp chief executive.<\/p>\n

Bidcorp is the foodservices business spun off from Bidvest Group in 2016, a company <\/span>Joffe founded in 1988 and has been chief executive of since 2004.<\/p>\n

He will take on the role of non-executive chairman of Bidcorp, the first time he will not be part of the management of either company since founding the group in 1988.<\/p>\n

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Read:\u00a0The best-run companies in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Executive chairman of foodservice group Bidcorp, Brian Joffe, will step down as at the end of June to launch his own investment firm, the company said in a shareholder statement on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":146125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121],"tags":[25,11851,4473],"class_list":["post-166309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-active","tag-bidcorp","tag-bidvest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166309","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=166309"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166325,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166309\/revisions\/166325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}