Business

Seeking Eldorado

Conquering world markets was only a dream for South African companies in the bad old days of apartheid; but today a new breed of aggressive entrepreneur is blazing trails to export world class IT products.

07 October 2002

PM Tech has taken the “travelling salesman” concept to new heights, sending representatives to almost every, far-flung destination you can think of. A conversation with Michael Leeuwen and Peter Bruggeman, directors of the software solutions development, networking and IT consulting company, is peppered with a melange of exotic locales – from Peru to Mauritania, Bahrain to Baghdad.

Says Bruggeman of this rather unexpected move, “It`s working so well because they experience the same problems in Latin America as we do in South Africa. The licencing cost of US and UK products is prohibitive and they also experience skills shortages and currency difficulties.”

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