“The Business Place has the opportunity and aspires to become the leading support organization within the SMME Development field. I believe it should and will evolve and further develop its product and service offerings to satisfy the various life cycles of business that small business undertake on their business journey.”
- Mr Lavendra Naidoo, Branch Manager, TBP eKapa

Our current services include:

• Supplying business information applicable to start-up and/or existing businesses
• One-on-one consultations with trained navigators
• Training and workshops on a monthly basis
• Links to other networks, business associations and service providers via our interventions map
• Resource accessibility for TBP clients, including free Internet usage on a booking system, as well as boardroom and meeting room facilities                       
  

Investec Bank
Sekunjalo Investments Limited
Provincial Government of the Western Cape
City of Cape Town

We provide training on a range of business-related topics. Contact us for further details.

Stages - Training and Workshops

1)Start up Stage: This is the business in its concept stage. The owner has a specific idea and would like guidance harmonizing the concept/ idea, turning it into a Business ‘workable' Model/ Project. Focus is Starting a Business (seeing the business kick off).

2)Implementation Stage: This business is in its developmental stage (1 - +-2 yrs operation). The Business is operating for sustainability at the moment (pay bills etc) but no real profit is realized. The person would love to catch the big contracts with Big businesses. Focus here is growing your business.

3)Operational Stage: This business has been in operation for +2 yrs. Some profit is realized. They need further assistance in crunching those very big contracts; managing partnerships, growing the business and investments. The focus here is strategic business operations, people management/ managing relations etc.

Lavendra Naidoo, Branch Manager, TBP eKapa

Lavendra joined TBP in 2007.  Before that, he was employed for 14 years at a management level at two finance companies involved in providing finance to SMMEs. 

He is particularly interested in developing and offering new products and services for clients at various stages of the business life cycle, and constantly encourages his team to participate in this process.