Our journey started 35 years ago when a group of entrepreneurs started a small leasing business. Today Investec is an international specialist banking group listed on the London and Johannesburg stock exchanges, with over 5600 employees and total assets in excess of £37 billion. In addition, the business is still led by some of those same founders and has a high level of employee share ownership.
Just like many entrepreneurially driven businesses, this growth could not have been achieved without those same founders realising the importance of building top quality teams around them, and without good “no nonsense” advice from trusted business partners and a supportive network of like minded experienced entrepreneurs. Most owner managers have to plough their own way through the snow-like challenges of, for example, how to profitably grow their customer base, improve their operational efficiency, maintain product or service quality in the face of competitive pressures, recruit expertise whilst retaining the core culture, values and vision, and all the while striving to offer their customers something different. RAW 2010 offers a unique and innovative forum for accessing a wealth of advice and a likeminded network of driven individuals with a huge level of practical experience and expertise. It’s about establishing genuine relationships for longer term mutual benefit, all of which will help drive the continued success of the North West business community.
At Investec we have never sought to follow the pack. We have developed our specialist banking business with the philosophy of ‘out thinking’ rather than ‘out-muscling’ our competition. This means aspiring to be not only better, but more importantly different. Our clients thrive on being part of this entrepreneurial, innovative and straight talking environment, in which the advice we give is as important to us as the financing we provide. For true entrepreneurs these are exciting times, and Investec Specialist Private Bank is proud to be a sponsoring partner in RAW 2010.
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