Company name |
Award won |
What they do |
Comments |
My score |
SJM Flex SA
No website |
Eastern Cape Exporter of the Year winner |
Manufacturer of flexible automotive couplings |
If they do have a website, they’ve hidden it so well I can’t find it. |
0 |
Field Crest International |
KZN previous Exporter of the Year winner |
Exporter of fruit |
- Very basic website – could do a lot to improve this site for an international audience
- News Flash section dates back to 2007 (no news to report??)
- Most recent item under Achievements dates back to 2006 (clearly they haven’t achieved anything since then)
|
2 |
Kestrel Wind Systems |
Eastern Cape Entrepreneur of the Year Export Award |
Manufacturers of wind generators for home and light industrial use |
- Professional and up-to-date website
- Even uses RSS feeds
- Could do a bit more for an international audience
|
4.5 |
Union-Swiss |
Western Cape Exporter of the Year finalist |
Swiss manufacturer and distributor of skin-care products in SA |
- A good, solid website
- Could do with some sprucing up
- Appears reasonably up-to-date
|
4 |
Swartland Winery |
Western Cape Exporter of the Year finalist |
SA wine producer and exporter |
- Generally a slick and professional websites
- A pity that the Awards (2007) and News/recipes sections are a little dated (2007 and respectively)
|
4 |
ABAGold (co.za website)
ABAGold (.com website) |
Western Cape Exporter of the Year finalist |
Producers of cultivated abalone |
- A very basic (but attractive) website, that appears to focus more on investment promotion and share trading than export promotion
|
2 |
FirstCape (co.za website)
FirstCape (.com website) |
Western Cape Exporter of the Year finalist |
Producers of wines for the UK |
- A slick Flash-based website
- Provides basic promotional information
- Nothing more than a brochureware site
- Their .com site is essentially the same
|
3.5 |
Belmet Marine |
Western Cape Exporter of the Year finalist |
A diversified steel fabricator in the Western Cape |
- An awkward, complicated and out-of-date website that is not very user-friendly
- The Belmet News section has 5 news items 2005 (x2), 2006, 2007, and .
- The one-and-only press-release dates back to 2004?
|
2 |
Elezane Industries T/A
SA Snail Company |
Western Cape Exporter of the Year finalist |
A company that hand picks snails for export |
- A very basic website for a small, but successful company that covers the essentials
- The design and content could be much better (more export focused)
- The logo is very poor
- There needs to be some clear distinction between Elezane and SA Snail Company (the two names do not support each other)
|
3 |
Peppadew International (co.za website)
Peppadew International (.com website) |
Gauteng Exporter of the Year |
Processors and exporters of peppadews |
- A slick, professional website
- This is what an international website should look like
- However, the In the News section dates back to 2007.
|
4.5 |
Miller Methods |
Gauteng Exporter of the Year Awards |
Injection moulding firm |
A good website, that could do with a little more attention |
4 |
Redtop Flycatchers |
Gauteng Exporter of the Year Award winner |
Manufacturer of a non-toxic fly trap |
A great website |
4.5 |
Disa Anodes |
Gauteng Exporter of the Year Awards (Technology Excellence Awards) |
Manufacture of materials for the cathodic protection industry |
A basic, website, but the News section doesn’t work (broken link) |
3 |
Gunric Valve Manufacturers |
Gauteng Exporter of the Year (Technology Excellence) |
Manufacturers of industrial valves |
- A rather basic, unattractive website that has the potential to offer much more.
- Appears up-to-date
|
2.5 |
International Maritime Information Systems |
Gauteng Exporter of the Year Awards winner (Emerging Exporter Category) |
Developers and marketers of maritime information systems |
- A badly designed website that has the potential to be much better
- The latest news section dates to 2005!
|
2 |
Agriva SA |
Gauteng Exporter of the Year Awards winner (Services Category) |
An agricultural marketing company of fresh-cut flowers |
- An incomplete website. Several sections (including the home page) have no information
- Needs a lot of improvement
|
1 |
Technical Systems |
Cape Exporter of the Year finalist |
Manufacturer of poultry and pig-feeding systems |
- A good website
- Also a fairly comprehensive website
- Some of the pages are a little out-of-date, but the site as a whole is generally up-to-date
- Although this is a good website, I believe it could do more to promote its export endeavours
|
4 |
Capespan (co.za website)
Capespan (.com website) |
Western Cape Exporter of the Year finalist |
Global marketer of fresh produce such as fruit sjm flex export juices, dried fruit and processed fresh fruit under brands such as ‘Cape’ |
- Although these are the legitimate web addresses for CapeSpan, near of these addresses function properly.
- There is clearly an error with this website
- I tried these addresses on different computers and on different dates
|
0.5 |
Ceres Beverage Company |
Western Cape Export of the Year winner |
Producer and exporter of fruit juices |
- A great website
- Could offer a bit more to foreign buyers, but has a good export orientation
- Appears up-to-date
|
5 |
Xstrata Coal SA |
Mpumalanga Exporter of the Year Award winner |
Major producer and exporter of coal |
- Website is part of the broader corporate site, which has a global focus
- Excellent corporate website
- Up-to-date
|
5 |
Thos Begbie & Co |
Mpumalanga Exporter of the Year Award winner |
Manufacturers of water-cooled components for the melting industry |
- A basic and somewhat poorly organised website
- This website could offer much more.
- Not very export orientated
- Appears to be up-to-date
|
2.5 |
Dagama Avocado Oils |
Mpumalanga Exporter of the Year Award winner |
Producer of Avocado oils |
- A somewhat amateurish website, but it provides all the essential information
- Could be a lot better
- Appears to be up-to-date
|
2.5 |
Texcon Shipping |
Gauteng Exporter of the Year Award finalist |
Global logistics providers |
- A basic website that covers the essentials
- Reasonably up-to-date
- Could do more though to promote the company via the website
|
3 |
Imperial Armour |
KZN Exporter of the Year winner |
Providers and exporters of personal security equipment |
- A good, solid website
- The news section dates back to 2007
|
4 |
Conlog |
KZN Exporter of the Year winner and winner of numerous other awards |
Manufacturers of prepaid electricity meters |
- A rather poorly organised and verbose website
- Very little information for the foreign buyer
- The organisation/structure of the site is particularly poor
|
2.5 |
Pilot Crushtec |
Gauteng Exporter of the Year Award winner |
Manufacturers of mobile crushing and screening equipment |
A good, solid website that is reasonably up-to-date |
4.5 |
Sasol Polymers |
Mpumalanga Exporter of the Year Award winner |
Manufacturers and exporters of polymers |
- A slick, professional corporate website
- Up-to-date
|
5 |
Copper Craft (also known as Creative Copper) |
Mpumalanga Exporter of the Year Award winner |
Manufactures of copper jewellery |
- A simple, yet attractive website
- Could do more with the site
- Appears up-to-date
|
4.5 |
Wonderfontein Mills
No website |
Mpumalanga Exporter of the Year Award winner |
Maize millers |
Cannot find any website for this company |
0 |
