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30 July 2010
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About www.empowerment.co.za
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Financial Mail strives to help business make sense of its fast-changing environment. In South Africa, empowerment is one of the most rapidly evolving factors affecting business, and one of the most difficult to make sense of. This website exists to deliver the latest news and analysis of empowerment-related issues from all BDFM Publishers’ publications, and to equip you with tools such as the FM’s National Scorecard Database, which is intended to help ease the administrative burden of keeping your supplier scorecards updated.
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About BDFM Publishers
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What we do
BDFM Publishers (Pty) Ltd is a joint venture between Avusa and UK group Pearson plc, owner of Financial Times.
We provide business information, knowledge and intelligence through publications Business Day, Financial Mail and Bignews, as well as broadcasting arm Summit TV and the Business Media in Education initiative. We also target top earners through the Home Channel.
Our expertise lies in news gathering, analysis, writing and editing, publication design and dissemination, and broadcasting, and particularly in delivering messages to niched audiences. We specialise in publishing corporate profiles, which are a powerful tool for updating your audience on the status of your company or special projects.
Our channels
BUSINESS DAY
FINANCIAL MAIL
FM CAMPUS
SUMMIT TV
HOME CHANNEL
THE WEEKENDER
BIGNEWS
I-NET BRIDGE
BUSINESS MEDIA IN EDUCATION
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Company history
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BDFM was formed in 1997 when Times Media Ltd (which became Johncom, and is now Avusa) sold 50% of its business publishing interests to UK group Pearson plc, creating a joint venture to house daily newspaper Business Day, weekly magazine Financial Mail and African Business Channel, producer of business television programme Business Tonight, and later Summit TV and The Home Channel.
Pearson, via its subsidiary Financial Times, was instrumental in the creation of Financial Mail in 1959 in a venture with SA Associated Newspapers (Saan), which later became Times Media Ltd. Financial Times sold its stake in Financial Mail to Saan in the 1970s.
Business Day was born of the Rand Daily Mail, one of the most outspoken of South Africa’s newspapers during the apartheid era. When mounting losses forced Saan to close the Rand Daily Mail in 1985, its business pages were retained, forming the heart of a new national publication – Business Day. The newspaper has since become South Africa’s most authoritative daily business newspaper.
In 2006 Business Day expanded publication to six days a week with the launch of The Weekender, a leisure read for the business person. During the same year it bought a controlling stake in Bignews, a monthly free-fetch tabloid for small business.
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Directors
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PG Joubert (chairman)
M Malunga (managing director)
*DCM Bell
H Benetar
PC Desai
*BM Hughes
RC Josiah
*AC Miller
ME Ramano
MC Ramaphosa
Alternates
AM Lowry to any Pearson director
*KT Koch alternate to BM Hughes
(*British)
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Contacts
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HEAD OFFICE
Physical address
Avusa
4 Biermann Avenue
Rosebank
Johannesburg
2196
South Africa
Postal address
PO Box 1742
Saxonwold
2132
South Africa
Telephone
+27 11 280 3016
SUBSCRIPTIONS
Telephone: 0860 262626
E-mail: bdfmsubs@avusa.co.za
ADVERTISING
Telephone:+27 11 280 3501
Facsimile:+27 11 280 3500
E-mail: bdfmsubs@avusa.co.za
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Services
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SUBSCRIPTIONS
Click here to subscribe online: http://subscribe.businessday.co.za/
Subscription queries:
Telephone: 0860 262626
E-mail: bdfmsubs@avusa.co.za
ADVERTISING
Advertising sales contact details:
Telephone:+27 11 280 3501
Facsimile:+27 11 280 3500
E-mail: bonsallk@bdfm.co.za
BACK COPIES
To order, call :+27 11 280-3933
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Careers
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Jobs at Avusa
Avusa-Pearson Graduate Programme
Avusa and Pearson have joined forces to create the Avusa-Pearson Journalism Training Programme, which focuses on financial journalism training to fast-track selected candidates.
In January 2006 Johncom Media (now Avusa) and BDFM, through the Avusa-Pearson Training Programme, were the first media houses to offer a registered learnership, leading to an NQF Level 5 National Certificate in Journalism. The company is accredited by the MAPPP Seta as a training provider for this learnership and has received funding from the seta for it. The programme has also received funding from the MAPPP Seta to provide internships for black journalism students and recent graduates seeking experience that will enable them to graduate.
For more details contact programme head Paddi Clay.
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BDFM Publishers (Pty) Ltd disclaims all liability for any loss, damage,
injury or expense however caused, arising from the use of,
or reliance upon, in any manner, the information provided through
this service and does not warrant the truth, accuracy or completeness
of the information provided. The publisher's permission is required to
reproduce the contents in any form including, capture into a database,
website, intranet or extranet. 
(c) BDFM Publishers
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Black Economic Empowerment (“BEE”) was meant to have found itself on more certain ground with the gazetting of the Codes of Good Practice in 2007. After all the years of anticipating an end to the moving targets and constantly shifting playing fields, the South African business community had cause to celebrate the birth of a decade of BEE certainty as the Codes superseded the plethora of sector charters and corporate self regulation.
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