ABS was founded by Jacques du Preez and was an independent professional services company with 8 employees working with VC’s , International Corporations, ventures & growing companies and operated from October 2001 to January 2007.
In January 2007 Jacques du Preez moved to Pond Venture Partners ( www.pondventures.com) and passed on the client base to his staff.
Services provided included:
- Directorships,
- Business Building,
- Interim Management,
- Management Consulting,
- Country Representation ,
- Accounting & Finance,
- Taxation,
- Logistics & Customer Services.
Clients included:
- Power Engineering - www.powereng.com,
- Persil Service - www.persilservice.com (bought by Timpsons),
- CreaVite (produced magnum chilled deserts),
- Mini-rc - www.mini-rc.co.uk,
- Psephos Holdings - www.psephos.net,
- Change to Digital,
- MindTools - www.mindtools.com,
- The Image Refinery - www.tir.co.uk,
- Capital Sailing, Capital Leisure, Unilever Ventures - www.unileverventures.com and Unifusion.
They ranged in size from 3 to 800 employees; $ 200,000 to $100,000,000 turnover; 1 to 56 locations.
Some of the industries they are involved in are: Traditional and Alternative Power, Food Technology, Technology & Media, Retail, Telecoms, Medical Devices and Biotechnology.
ABS was registered with the ICAEW (www.icaew.com) and CIMA (www.cimaglobal.com) |
