{"id":45367,"date":"2013-09-05T11:03:42","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T09:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=45367"},"modified":"2013-09-05T11:08:31","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T09:08:31","slug":"business-connexion-to-offload-q-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/45367\/business-connexion-to-offload-q-link\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Connexion to offload Q Link"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listed\u00a0ICT services provider, Business Connexion says it\u00a0has entered into an agreement to dispose of its entire interest\u00a0in its Q Link business unit to Summit Garnishee Solutions for\u00a0R187.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>SGS is a privately-owned company that is not a related party to the group.<\/p>\n<p>The effective date of the disposal is 1 September 2013, and the consideration will be settled in full on the date that the last suspensive condition\u00a0is fulfilled.<\/p>\n<p>Q Link provides a one-stop collections platform that overcomes the complexity of multiple disparate interfaces to a variety of collection channels, including bank debits and payroll deductions.<\/p>\n<p>By way of rationale for the disposal Business Connexion said: &#8220;Q Link has grown to the extent that its future vision and strategy requires greater alignment with\u00a0the financial services sector. As a result, Q Link no longer forms part of the core business strategy of the Group and the board of directors of BCX\u00a0opted to dispose of Q Link and realise value.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on\u00a0Business Connexion<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Business Connexion in UK acquisition deal\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/37153\/business-connexion-in-uk-acquisition-deal\/\"><strong>Business Connexion in UK acquisition deal<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>More on\u00a0Business Connexion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Business Connexion posts interim growth\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/36027\/business-connexion-posts-interim-growth\/\"><strong>Business Connexion posts interim growth<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BCX wins big in public sector\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/32851\/bcx-wins-big-in-public-sector\/\"><strong>BCX wins big in public sector<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Business Connexion completes Intergr8 IT buy\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/30993\/business-connexion-completes-intergr8-it-buy\/\"><strong>Business Connexion completes Intergr8 IT buy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Business Connexion rewards shareholders\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/25806\/business-connexion-rewards-shareholders\/\"><strong>Business Connexion rewards shareholders<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business Connexion says it has entered into an agreement to dispose of its entire interest in its Q LINK business unit to Summit Garnishee Solutions for R187.5 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[25,1031,6590],"class_list":["post-45367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-active","tag-business-connexion","tag-summit-garnishee-solutions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45367","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=45367"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45384,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45367\/revisions\/45384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}