{"id":86368,"date":"2015-05-04T12:58:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T10:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=86368"},"modified":"2015-05-04T12:58:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T10:58:04","slug":"poynting-in-name-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/86368\/poynting-in-name-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Poynting in name change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Antenna maker Poynting Holdings has undergone a name change to Alaris Holdings as of Monday 3 May.<\/p>\n<p>Poynting Holdings&#8217; ticker POY has changed to Alaris Holdings&#8217; ticker ALH, on the JSE.<\/p>\n<p>In December, Poynting disposed of all loss &#8211; making businesses (Commercial division) to former CEO, Dr\u00a0 Andr\u00e9\u00a0 Fourie.<\/p>\n<p>It was agreed that Poynting Defence &amp; Specialised and Holdings change name to avoid any potential confusion in the market.<\/p>\n<p>Poynting Defence &amp; Specialised is now Alaris Antennas, while Poynting Holdings is now Alaris Holdings.<\/p>\n<p>African Union Communications retains its name.<\/p>\n<p>Alaris is Latin for \u2018troops on the wing\u2019 and &#8220;echoes company\u2019s commitment to partnerships with its customers, to share in their victories and suffer with them in adversity, and be there and ready when it is most needed,&#8221; the new company said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Poynting<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/76468\/poynting-ceo-resigns-along-with-asset-sale\/\">Poynting CEO resigns along with asset sale<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Poynting completes Aucom purchase\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/50559\/poynting-completes-aucom-purchase\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Poynting completes Aucom purchase<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Poynting to acquire Aucom\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/41726\/poynting-to-acquire-aucom\/\"><strong>Poynting to acquire Aucom<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Poynting talks up LTE micro base stations\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/33229\/poynting-talks-up-lte-micro-base-stations\/\"><strong>Poynting talks up LTE micro base stations<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antenna maker Poynting Holdings has undergone a name change to Alaris Holdings as of Monday 3 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,9808,1322],"class_list":["post-86368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-alaris","tag-poynting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86368","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=86368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86372,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86368\/revisions\/86372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}