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Build a business that’s ready for its next stage of growth

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A 60-month business development opportunity with access to growth funding for established South African businesses.

The JSE, in partnership with Aurik Enterprise Development, is inviting established, majority black-owned businesses in the Event Management, Marketing & Communications, and Human Resources sectors to apply for a unique long-term business growth opportunity.

This programme combines structured business development with access to growth funding, helping selected businesses strengthen their foundations, invest in their growth and build long-term value.

If your business is ready for its next chapter, apply now and join a briefing on 28 July to get more insight into the benefits and next steps.

More than funding. A pathway to sustainable growth.

Access to funding can help a business grow, but lasting growth depends on something more.

It depends on having the right strategy, strong leadership, effective systems and the ability to consistently deliver for customers as your business grows.

That’s why this long-term programme combines five years of structured business development with access to growth funding, giving businesses the opportunity to build the capability needed to make that investment count.

Through Aurik’s proven Asset of Value methodology, experienced business facilitators guide business owners to strengthen every part of their business while implementing practical improvements that remain within the business long after the programme ends.

This isn’t about someone building your business for you, it’s about equipping you and your team to build a business that continues to grow, create opportunities and deliver value for years to come.

Who should apply?

We’re looking for established South African businesses operating in any of the following sectors.

Event Management

Businesses specialising in:

  • Corporate event planning
  • Conference management
  • Event production
  • Exhibitions
  • Corporate activations
  • Event logistics
  • Related event services

Marketing & Communications

Businesses providing:

  • Digital marketing
  • Branding
  • Creative services
  • Public relations
  • Media buying and planning
  • Social media marketing
  • Content creation
  • Related marketing services

Human Resources

Businesses specialising in:

  • Recruitment and talent acquisition
  • HR consulting
  • Training and development
  • Organisational development
  • Payroll services
  • Other HR-related solutions

Is your business eligible?

To be considered, your business should:

  • Be a majority black-owned business.
  • Have been operating successfully for approximately 3 to 5 years.
  • Generate annual turnover of approximately R1 million to under R50 million.
  • Operate anywhere in South Africa.
  • Operate within one of the eligible sectors.
  • Have the relevant technical capability and industry experience.
  • Be committed to actively participating in a five-year business development journey.

Apply Now

Register for a briefing where you will gain an understanding of the full benefits and criteria of this game changing partnership



Why should I apply?

Aurik has helped over 4,000 business owners in different industries. We use hands-on, step-by-step support that really works. In fact, our clients have grown their yearly sales by an average of 131%!

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What is the programme all about?

You will get long-term growth, real results, and more value from your business.  We’ll work closely with you and your team to…

  • Our holistic approach

    Set goals across your business, and hold you accountable to achieve them with strategic guidance, practical support, and where relevant, funding to make it happen, faster. 

  • Our proven business development methodology

    Surround you with a team of experts who will work closely with you to implement key changes in your business and provide ongoing mentorship.

  • With our assistance

    Strengthen your systems and processes across all your business functions including marketing, team, operations, supply chain management and finance. 

Reasons to work with Aurik

  • Grow your business

    1

    You will build, grow and accelerate the development of your business – unless you grow it, no one else will.

  • Get more customers

    2

    You will build your
    business beyond one deal.
    A sustainable, valuable
    business has many clients
    and we work with you to
    ensure that.

  • Business Funding

    3

    You will build a fundable
    business that gets access
    to funding that will support
    your growth and enable you
    to serve more business and
    bigger business.

  • Work with big corporates

    4

    You will build your business to succeed in entering, serving and sustaining relationships with corporate supply chains.

  • Personal Growth

    5

    You will advance, develop and attain skills to build and grow your business – No one will ever be able to take this
    away from you.

  • Build your future

    6

    You will build your business
    into your greatest wealth
    generating asset. Through
    this you will secure your
    family’s future and your
    legacy.

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X-spark

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Company overview

X Spark is a software development and business intelligence company that delivers innovative technology solutions for organisations across industries. Founded in 2007, X Spark develops user focused systems while supporting skills growth in previously disadvantaged communities.

Three Key Impacts:

Marketing and Sales: Through the Aurik process, XSpark sharpened its positioning and reconnected with its core strengths. This shift enabled the business to focus on value driven client engagements that supported strong commercial traction. Their renewed clarity helped unlock significant growth in revenue and profit, building confidence in their direction and deepening market trust.

Operations and Assets: XSpark strengthened its operational backbone through disciplined system building. The business achieved ISO 27001 certification, a major step in demonstrating world class standards. They also secured funding support for key assets and successfully purchased their own premises, giving the business a professional home with room to grow and a clear symbol of the Asset of Value they are building.

Team: As part of their growth journey, the founders streamlined their team and realigned roles to support long term scalability. They built a structure that balances delivery with ongoing innovation, while cultivating a positive, purpose driven culture. The new premises, enhanced systems and clearer team responsibilities contributed to a mindset shift that strengthened their leadership confidence.

RCPM

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Company overview:

RCPM Industries is an established civil and mining contracting company operating nationally across South Africa. The company is committed to becoming a world class firm that delivers reliable support and high quality services to its clients.

Three Key Impacts:

Marketing and Sales: Reabetswedintlha doubled their number of leads and invested more in marketing campaigns. This resulted in a 50 percent increase in sales engagements and an improvement in client concentration, reducing reliance on a few major clients. Their turnover grew by 9.06 percent during the programme.

Operations and Capacity: The business maintained full operational capacity and achieved a 0 percent failure rate on quality measures. They are working on expanding into primary mining services and have ongoing engagements with major equipment suppliers. They have also developed stronger cost forecasting per site to improve profitability management.

Team: The team grew through the addition of new operators, and roles and responsibilities were clearly defined, especially for operations and HR functions. They maintained strong HR structures, documented processes and enhanced accountability. A new director has been fully onboarded with clear duties.

RCPM: Reabetswedintlha Consultancy and Project Management

LIGALELO TRADING

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Company overview:

Ligalelo Trading is a construction and plant hire company operating from their base in Mbombela, servicing construction and civils projects.

Three Key Impacts:

Marketing & Sales: They made a smart plan to grow their business. Now, instead of speaking to only 5 clients a month, they talk to more than 30. This helped them grow their number of regular customers by 50%.

Machines & Equipment: They started with only 4 big machines. Now they have 11. Because of this, they had to move to a new, bigger site that is well located in town – which also helps them get noticed by more people.

Team: Nathi embraced the process of defining a role, and then training employees to deliver that role. He included his team in the Aurik process to ensure rapid buy-in and adoption of the systems and processes designed. This has enabled rapid staff growth from 3 to 13.

Dezina Pak

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Company overview:

Founded and led by Jodie Naidoo, DEZINA PAK supplies high-quality, eco-friendly, biodegradable food packaging to the catering and hospitality industries.

Dezina Pak | How a sustainable packaging business, built scale and is ready for growth
Dezina Pak | How a sustainable packaging business, built scale and is ready for growth

Three Key Impacts:

Scale & growth: Jodie successfully self-funded the import of a full container of stock which offered greater range to her clients, reduced cost and necessitated a new warehouse and more staff to manage the increased workload

Delegation: The implementation of an inventory management system, together with an organisational structure with clear roles led to the hire of two new employees to release Jodie’s time to focus on strategy

Profitability: Access to bulk stock reduced cost and increased capacity, allowing Dezina to service more clients. Improved systems operated by a purposeful team have improved efficiencies, all contributing to profit increase

Lekholokoe Diamond & Project

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Company overview:

Lekholokoe was founded as a Diamond Mining company in 2010 in Burgersfort. It has since diversified into construction, crops and livestock.

Key Achievements

  • Profitablity & revenue: Lekholokoe Diamond exceeded their profitability and revenue targets over the duration of the programme. Cash flow is healthy, and the business is self-sustaining
  • Property and plant: Growth in machinery & equipment from 4 to 11 necessitated a new site, which is centrally located, serving a marketing purpose as it is highly visible.
  • Team: Jonas embraced the process of defining a role, and then training employees to deliver that role. He included his team in the Aurik process to ensure rapid buy-in and adoption of the systems and processes designed. This has enabled rapid staff growth from 3 to 13.

Thoka Properties

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Company overview:

Thoka Properties was founded in 2018 by Precious Thoka, and now has offices is 8 of South Africa’s 9 provinces, with their eyes set on the 9th state, the Free State as their next branch.

Three Key Impacts

Lead generation: Effort invested in defining Thoka’s unique positioning in the market, combined with a dedicated marketing resource led to ~50 new leads a month and a notable increase in revenue.

Sytems: A CRM was adopted and is now used to track all lead conversion. Financial and supplier management systems are regularly reviewed to optimise processes and minimise costs.

Team: Scope of Works (SOPs) were developed and time consuming processes that had been absorbing Precious’ time were delegated to key team members, enabling Precious to focus on growth

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We look forward to connecting with you.

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Join Pavlo Phitidis and a number of multinational companies for a breakfast insight and networking session, to tackle the challenges and opportunities facing big business in our uncertain, constantly changing business environment

Date: 24 July
Time: 07h30 for 08h00 to 10h30, including breakfast
Venue: The Capital Melrose
Speaker: Pavlo Phitidis, business growth author, speaker, and founder of Aurik

Click here to RSVP

Topic: Forces of change require new approaches to business growth

There is little doubt that the framework against which global business, and the multinationals that operate in it, have relied upon to win work and deliver profits is fracturing. The fundamental principles that established the framework are being corroded by geopolitics, climate change, technology, economic and social change.

The old way of doing things as well as the old guard need to change to remain relevant and in fact, lead the change to get ahead of competitors. Failing to do so places you either on the back-foot or a gradual death. Think of what Telsa has done to the automative market and then further, how the Chinese EV industry is already usurping that in the West. Think of Temu as the front attack on Amazon that itself ate traditional retail.

Leaders find themselves caught between rocks and very hard places. Acting with uncertain or insufficient information opens the door to mistakes, cost and reputational harm. Yet, acting after certainty has been attained is likely to find you on the back-foot eroding any previously held advantages.

Adaptive leaders need two things to find the balance. A winning vision and a dynamic business model that places them in the front row of a changing customer needs and wants earn a front row seat into the signals of change. The first responders are the likely to be the most relevant to win the market. Lead or be led in response to competitors that lead.

Pavlo will share a framework to get ahead of the market, based on 4 elements:

  1. Mindset
  2. Objective
  3. Strategy
  4. Tactics

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