Opportunity Issue 104
Opportunity magazine is a niche business-to-business publication that explores various investment opportunities within Southern Africa’s economic sectors. The publication is endorsed by the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SACCI).
Opportunity magazine is a niche business-to-business publication that explores various investment opportunities within Southern Africa’s economic sectors. The publication is endorsed by the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SACCI).
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ENGINEERING<br />
Freddy and Sons Maintenance<br />
Engineering (Pty) Ltd<br />
Offering quality solutions and services for two decades.<br />
Freddy and Sons Maintenance Engineering (Pty) Ltd<br />
is a 100% black-owned and managed engineering<br />
company which has its headquarters in Bushbuckridge,<br />
Mpumalanga. The company has been offering<br />
solutions since 2012 and has steadily grown its client<br />
base to include a range of private and public sector companies.<br />
Freddy and Sons specialises in electrical, mechanical, project<br />
management and air-conditioning services. With the combination<br />
of the skills and expertise within the company, Freddy and Sons<br />
Maintenance Engineering (Pty) Ltd has the capability and capacity<br />
for most projects and has excellent working relationships with<br />
other medium-sized companies (both established and emerging)<br />
for additional capacity when required.<br />
Services<br />
Freddy And Sons Maintenance Engineering (Pty) Ltd is a key national<br />
player in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and advisory field<br />
within the South African and Sub-Saharan African regions, operating<br />
in the following areas:<br />
• Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Designs<br />
• Project Management<br />
• Infrastructure Asset Management and development<br />
• Solar Energy Systems<br />
• Performance Energy Management<br />
• Electrification<br />
• Air-conditioning<br />
All divisions serve a wide range of local, regional and multinational<br />
clients and remain recognised and grouped with market leaders in<br />
multiple in multidisciplinary engineering services.<br />
Qualifications and certificates<br />
Founder and CEO Freddy Sibuyi has a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical<br />
Engineering and an MBA. In addition, he has Engineering Project<br />
Management Certificate from the University of Pretoria, a Trade Test<br />
(Electrical), a Wiremen's Licence and has undergone a Safety Management<br />
Training Course (SAMTRAC) through NOSA. Before starting his own<br />
business, Freddy worked for Transnet, Scaw Metals and Eskom. He has<br />
been a winner in a national business plan competition for SMMEs run<br />
by Business Partners Limited and SME Toolkit and has participated<br />
in the Tholoana Enterprise Programme of the SAB Foundation.<br />
Contact:<br />
A511 Millennium Building, Manyeleti Main Road, Thulamahashe,<br />
Mpumalanga 1365 | Tel: 087 057 1105 | Mobile:078 618 3300<br />
Email:info@freddyandsons.co.za | Website://freddyandsons.co.za<br />
The founder of Freddy and Sons, Freddy Sibuyi, tells the story of how<br />
the business began and how challenges were overcome.<br />
Where do you offer your services?<br />
To date we have grown to supply nationally<br />
through four branches in South Africa:<br />
Bushbuckridge, Witbank, Auckland Park<br />
(Johannesburg) and Cape Town. As our<br />
vision statement states, “To be the<br />
world-leading Engineering Service<br />
provider.” We have also managed<br />
to grow, extend our footprint and<br />
manage projects in other African<br />
countries such as Mozambique,<br />
Zimbabwe and Botswana.<br />
Which aspects of the business<br />
is showing the best growth?<br />
The green energy sector, or<br />
solar systems, has shown a very positive growth graph since<br />
Eskom and municipalities have implemented loadshedding.<br />
The failure of energy supply nationally has seen the demand<br />
and the market for energy expand, which is reflected in revenue<br />
and sales.<br />
Have you signed any significant new clients in the last 18 months?<br />
We have closed a number of new long-term, small, medium and large<br />
contracts with Standard Bank, Afrimat, AfriSam, General Electric, Astron<br />
Energy and Anglo American Mining.<br />
Do you have partnerships with other companies?<br />
At this point our company has grown to become an asset and valued<br />
business which stands on its own in any project. We have the skills, acumen,<br />
staff qualifications and accreditations to manage and complete every<br />
project to the customer's expectations and scope, be it large or small.<br />
What are some of the challenges you have faced to get your small<br />
business started and to make it grow?<br />
Building an Asset-of-Value business has never been easy, despite the<br />
fact that I had qualified with a Master of Business Administration (MBA).<br />
A standalone business has always been my dream, and this made me<br />
able to tackle the many challenges to build, manage and operate<br />
the successful business: financial, marketing, operational and human<br />
resources challenges. It was very difficult to penetrate the engineering<br />
market before we had responded to all of these challenges. But now<br />
we are able to meet every project or business standard.
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