Platinum Sponsors
DaimlerChrysler
For more information, please visit http://www.daimlerchrysler.com/.
The Coca-Cola Company
The The Coca-Cola Company is Africa's leading beverages provider. Its soft drinks, juices, bottled waters, energy and sports drinks are marketed and distributed by bottling partners from over 160 plants serving 880 million consumers across the continent. The Coca-Cola Company, with its 40 bottling partners, is the continent's largest private sector employer, with nearly 60,000 African employees. Over the last five years alone, more than $US600 million has been invested in Africa, much of this going into new plants, updated equipment and employee training. As such we have contributed very substantially to the NEPAD and Millennium Development goals of economic growth, job creation and poverty eradication.
The Coca-Cola Africa franchise and distribution network of over 900,000 retail partners, ranging from large wholesalers to one-man pushcart sellers, is truly a success story of local empowerment in Africa. We have grown entrepreneurship, supporting both large and small business development in the countries where we operate.
Coca-Cola Africa has committed up to 2% of our profits before tax to social investment under the umbrella of The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation. The Foundation invests in Water, HIV/Aids, Education and Entrepreneurship Programs. We support a number of Aids orphanages and has provided clean drinking water, as well as educational facilities to a number of communities across the continent on a sustainable, multi-year basis. We also invest in entrepreneurship training programs, in partnership with governments and civil society.
As a responsible corporate citizen, Coca-Cola Africa is committed to the upliftment, growth and development of the African continent and as a continental business leader, we engage in constructive dialogue with all our stakeholders.
To join our organization please visit http://www2.coca-cola.com/careers/search_jobs_africa.html.
Silver Sponsors
Emerging Markets Partnership
For more information, please visit http://www.empglobal.com/.
Goldman Sachs
For more information, please visit http://www2.goldmansachs.com/.
Mckinsey & Co.
For more information, please visit http://www.mckinsey.com/.
Merrill Lynch
Merrill Lynch is a leading global financial management and advisory company with a presence in 36 countries across six continents. It serves the needs of both individual and institutional clients with a diverse range of financial services, including:
- Personal financial planning
- Securities underwriting
- Trading and brokering
- Investment banking and advisory services
- Trading of foreign exchange
- Commodities and derivatives
- Banking and lending
- Insurance
- Research
With private client assets of approximately $1.8 trillion, Merrill Lynch is the undisputed leader in planning-based financial advice and management for individuals and small businesses. As an investment bank, it is a top global underwriter of debt and equity securities and a leading strategic advisor to corporations, governments, institutions and individuals worldwide. Through Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, the company operates one of the world's largest mutual fund groups.
Bronze Sponsors
Circle Capital
Circle Capital is a leading international advisory and investment management firm with operations Southern Africa. Our focus is in Southern Africa, which we believe offers the largest number of outstanding and immediately available opportunities to be found anywhere in the world.
Our services include financial advisory and restructuring, asset management, mergers and acquisitions, institutional trading services and capital raising for public and private companies. At Circle Capital we are active across several industries and sectors including: Technology, Healthcare, Financial Services, and Real Estate.
We believe in the maxim that successful strategies are a result of successful execution. This commitment to superior strategy and superior execution is what allows us to bring maximum value and winning outcomes to our clients and partners.
Please visit www.cicapglobal.com and www.circlecapital.co.za for more information.
International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group
For more information, please visit http://www.ifc.org/.
Macquarie Bank
For more information, please visit http://www.macquarie.com.au/au/index.html.
Microsoft
For more information, please visit http://www.microsoft.com.
The Boston Consulting Group
The Boston Consulting Group is a top-tiered international strategy and general management consulting firm whose mission is to help leading corporations create and sustain competitive advantage. As a truly international firm, our strong global presence offers clients and employees a wealth of cross-cultural experience. Take the opportunity to explore our history of insight and innovation over the past 40 years, some news about our organization, meet some experts, or look to the future of leading-edge strategic thinking with the Strategy Institute.
Please visit our site at: http://www.bcg.com for more information.
Careers in Africa
For more information, please visit http://www.careersinafrica.com.
Media Sponsor
Africa Investor
Africa investor (www.africa-investor.com) supplies investors and policy
makers with information on Africa's investment environment and sheds light
on issues that inform investment decisions.
Our editorial agenda is guided by events shaping business confidence in
Africa. Political leaders, CEOs and multilateral agency executives consult
Ai for its incisive, analytical and accurate reporting on the events and
issues shaping Africa's investment environment.
Advised by a board of business leaders and representatives from multilateral
organizations, Ai publishes a bi-monthly investment magazine read by 20,000
decision makers, a web-portal (www.africa-investor.com) providing access to
African business
information and organizes the only pan-African investment awards.
Partner
AfricaRecruit
AfricaRecruit was formally launched in 2002, as an offshoot of www.findajobinafrica.com that was established in 1999. AfricaRecruit is a mobilization programme of The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), The Commonwealth Secretariat and the Commonwealth Business Council. AfricaRecruit has been at the forefront of mobilising skills and human resource capacity in and outside of Africa since 2002. It also facilitates the African Diaspora towards capacity building in Africa either through skills or investment in areas such as remittances. AfricaRecruit is an innovative service delivery vehicle with its focus on capacity building through human resources, using its various networks within and outside Africa.
AfricaRecruit acts as a
platform for debate with the African Diaspora and key stakeholders on how to
add value to capacity building in Africa with main skills, labor, human
resources and investment as the main drivers. For more information on
AfricaRecruit please log on to
www.africarecruit.com.
