Born Entrepreneur A Marketer

Effective Communicator

 

INGANE CONSTRUCTION

 

-General Building Maintenance

- Refurbishment  Restorations

- New Installations Supplies

 

Ingane I founded in 2005 it was my first formal company after many preteen years of selling eggs, peanuts and Artchaar to support my Grand mother’s Dream of building a school (successfully achieved). Post corporate participation in Bluechip companies (Telkom SA, America Online (AOL), and Dimension Data and Discovery Health) I decided to use the Experience I had learnt from all these Captain of industry companies I had learnt so much from. I thought to myself just go back to Entrepreneurship and I registered Ingane Investment:

 

Ingane Construction – through family networks and mentoring I set up a formal office with my Pension Fund Withdrawal and grew Ingane to a R2,5M Turnover in a year. We grew significantly in Construction across South Africa. When I sold Ingane it was employing 10 artisans and about 15 Semiskilled workers (Full time) and +-20 Contractors a month.

I sold Ingane because I saw an opportunity in the Construction space in the private household and corporate sector and I needed money to set up a furniture manufacturing workshop and founded

 

Leroon Designs– (Lerato on the Moon)

 

LEROON DESIGNS

 

- Furniture Design

- Furniture

 

Manufacturing

 

- Furniture Installations

- Bespoke Interior Design

- Refurbishments

- Furniture Repairs and Refurbishment

 

Leroon Designs opened with 4 Full time employed workers – Seamstress, Carpenter, Upholster and Me (Admin and Design)

We worked really hard to set up Leroon in the market made partnership with the best fabric importers (U&G and Hertex) I operated my design studio from inside their workshops in Pretoria. We were covered by most media houses:

 

Magazines

 

(YOUMAG,DESTINYMAG,BBQMAG,DRUMMAG)

 

News Papers

(SUNDAYWORLD,SUNDAYTIMES,SOWETAN)

 

Radio:

R2000, SA FM, 702

 

TV shows:

BDTV, HOME CHANNEL

 

Our target was to furnish a house a week, which we achieved because the young economy entrants bought in numbers. A good marketing plan was showing results.

- Leroon Designs BECAME to the best fabric buyer in Pretoria.

- Leroon EXPANDED in to the Africa market selling in Zimbabwe and Zambia.

- We SOLD DÉCOR across Africa on the online store

- We LAUNCHED a store in Durban in the second year

- We CREATED 18 Permanent Jobs

With my proceeds from Leroon I bought into Creative Steel Engineering (CSE), with the aim of adding a steel component to my market.

 

CREATIVE STEEL ENGINEERING (CSE)

 

- Staircases

- Balustrading

- Steel Fabrication

- Steel Manipulation

- Machining

- Machined components  Steel Manipulation

- Irrigation manufacturing  Laser cutting and Tubing

Creative Steel Engineering (CSE) opened up to new markets in the manufacturing, construction and Engineering sectors. We were able to grow CSE into a R15m Turnover company in over a year.

 

Countries:

 

South Africa Lesotho Zimbabwe Zambia Tanzania

We employed 38 permanent workers including Engineers, Artisans, Designers and Machine operators, in a 2000m2 Workshop. We had additional 20 onsite workers.

We sold Irrigation across Africa.

We built relationships with Giants in the Engineering

space:

BOSAL AFRIKA DAYBREAK FORD MOTORS EXXARO

GROUP 5

 

EDUCATION

 

- TSHWANE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

- GIBS

- Experience – 20 Years

Post matric I studied with Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) for a Diploma in Finance and Accounting.

I enrolled with GIBS to study Business Management and Project Management.

My Experiences have been my greatest teacher!