News Archive

News Archive

Are Localisation Strategies Realistic in Emerging Sectors? By Nicki Halle, Consultant

Emerging and rapidly developing industries and sectors, such as Technology, Agriculture and Financial Services are fast becoming strong contributors to the success of economies across the African continent.  Critical to the continued success of these emerging sectors is the human capital driving the expansion, but this talent is in scarce supply on the continent, especially […]

Why invest in supply chain infrastructure? By Sarah Benson, Search Consultant

There are more than a billion people across 54 countries on a continent bigger than Europe, the USA, China and India combined, yet Africa is barely present on the map of world trade.  When the Economist published a new report on emerging Africa, “Africa Rising”, they commented that “Africa can be a hard place to […]

Talent Scarcity in Emerging Industries and How to Overcome It

Emerging and rapidly developing industries and sectors, such as Technologies, Real Estate and Renewables are fast becoming strong contributors to the success of economies across the African continent.  Critical to their continued success is the human capital driving the expansion, but this talent is in scarce supply on the continent, especially if your company is […]

SuperReturn Cape Town Report – Where there is uncertainty there is opportunity

Managing Director Richard Putley and a team of four Search Consultants attended the 5th annual Super Return Conference in Cape Town at the beginning of December.  Presenting itself as the gateway into Africa’s Private Equity and Venture Capital communities, it attracted over 550 PE professionals from 150 local and International LP’s and 200 World Leading […]

Which Sectors have been Hiring and Where will the Growth be?

Where has the demand been in the last twelve months across the various sectors in Africa, and how have our functional specialists continued to deliver on sometimes highly specialist Searches?  Analysis of successful hires made by the EiA team over the last twelve months shows that 29% of these were into FMCG organisations, a further […]