DAIMLER SA
April 1st, 2002
BY RICHARD HURST, in JohannesburgMotor manufacturer Daimler-Chrysler South Africa has announced that its franchised dealers are to introduce so-called black empowerment partners into their businesses.The company's dealer development manger Theo Swanepoel said that his group's dealers have agreed to take on black African controlled business partners, commanding significant shareholdings."We are now in the process of developing the tools that we need to have black partners. Some partners will access to funding while others will not and we need a mechanism to ...
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