{"id":211071,"date":"2017-11-15T14:38:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T12:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=211071"},"modified":"2017-11-15T14:38:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T12:38:26","slug":"cartrack-hits-700000-active-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/211071\/cartrack-hits-700000-active-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartrack hits 700,000 active customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listed\u00a0vehicle tracking and telematics technology group, Cartrack has reported hitting a subscriber milestone, with 700,000 active customers across its operations.<\/p>\n<p>This milestone comes one month after passing 500,000 subscribers in South Africa, alone.<\/p>\n<p>The subscriber growth was driven by a dedicated workforce focusing on consistent customer engagement and the ability to better meet demand for the Cartrack technology, the group said.<\/p>\n<p>Cartrack currently has a presence in 24 countries which span Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Asia Pacific and the USA.<\/p>\n<p>In October the company reported a 20% rise in headline earnings for the six months ended August 2017, to R138.1 million.<\/p>\n<p>Revenue was up 14% to R629.9 million, with an operating profit climbing to R200 million, from R168 million previously.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The outperformance in our subscriber growth over the last year is a direct result of a dedicated and motivated workforce. We are constantly upgrading our market offering to our customers through our innovative and reliable products and services,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>Notwithstanding global economic and foreign exchange volatility, Cartrack said it expects to continue double-digit subscriber and revenue growth in the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/204250\/cartrack-hits-500000-subscribers-in-sa\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Cartrack hits 500,000 subscribers in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listed\u00a0vehicle tracking and telematics technology group, Cartrack has reported hitting a subscriber milestone, with 700,000 active customers across its operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":75870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211071","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=211071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211073,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211071\/revisions\/211073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}