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Pandemic has helped us take market share from importers
Q&A with Michael Wyatt, MD Bata SA ...more
Plan. Support your customers. Grow.
Q&A with Nick Bryant, national sales manager, ProFit Safety Footwear ...more
Effects of the pandemic: Local production up, imports down, pressure on prices
More than any other footwear category in South Africa, safety footwear has so far survived the pandemic relatively unscathed - no life support from government, and apparently no casualties. It helped that its status as part of PPE, and therefore an essential service, allowed it to operate, albeit on a reduced scale, during the strictest p ...more
Rebel Safety Gear - Q&A with Gavin Cooke, MD
- The NRCS needs to do what it's supposed to dorn- Sourcing from China hasn't been a problemrn- Swing to lower priced boots, but demand is good ...more
PPE budgets stretched, but sales up
Q&A with Ndlela Mazibuko, BBF Safety Group sales managerHow well has the safety footwear market held up over the past 18 months? Are there any noticeable changes in the quantities your customers are buying, in the price points that they're buying, or in the end customers that they're supplying? (e.g. is mining down but some other sect ...more
They have an enormous task, but the process needs to be speeded up
Eugene du Toit, BBF Safety Group technical managerTo start, we’d like to acknowledge the work the NRCS is doing with regards to safety footwear and the PPE categories they regulate. The enormity of the task is sometimes overlooked but, taking into account that safety footwear only came into the NRCS portfolio a few years ago, ...more
Pandemic has helped us take market share from importers
Q&A with Michael Wyatt, MD Bata SAHow happy or otherwise is your business with the NRCS? Do you have numbers for all your styles? What are the problems, for safety footwear suppliers, with what the NRCS is doing? Bata has a good relationship with NRCS. However, South Africa would benefit from speeding up the turnaround time of ne ...more
Plan. Support your customers. Grow.
Q&A with Nick Bryant, national sales manager, ProFit Safety FootwearYou have said that ProFit Safety Footwear has secured 18% growth year on year through Covid-19. How do you get shipping berths? This is the crystal ball part of the game. The “Magic 8 Ball” gets a shake as we ask the question…will the vessel be ...more
'Our relationship with industry is good', says NRCS
Mirriam Moswaane, head of communications and marketing at the NRCS, responded to our questionsHow does the NRCS view its relationship with the safety footwear industry in terms of compliance and co-operation? The relationship is good. How does the NRCS react to criticisms such as:Why do approvals take a long time? This is due to the ...more
ProFit Safety Footwear remains very optimistic about South Africa’s future
Boksburg, Gauteng, SA - Regardless of whether you speak to retailers, wholesalers, end users or even manufacturers across all industrial sectors, at one time or another over the last 10 months – they’ve stated that it’s been a very rough-and-tough year of trading. A few patches of good business have made up for the quiet ...more

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