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EOH acquires Microsoft specialist company Belay

Johannesburg, 28 Jan 2011

Belay, a specialist IT services and solutions provider, has been acquired by EOH. The company has 200 employees and is based in Midrand.

Belay is a leading Microsoft partner with competencies in custom application development, application life cycle management, server platform, data management and business intelligence solutions.

Belay also provides enterprise content management solutions using world-class information management products. Belay's enterprise content management solution extends from creating and capturing to processing and managing as well as delivery and archiving.

EOH CEO, Asher Bohbot, says: “Belay is an excellent fit for EOH. It will add significant weight to our Microsoft and enterprise content management offerings, adding to our existing products and services and enabling us to continue to provide end-to-end solutions to our customers.” Bohbot adds: “The culture and value set of Belay is a great fit to those of EOH and this is the vital ingredient to any successful venture.”

Belay CEO George Grimes says: “The acquisition will provide his team with access to a much broader customer and skills base and will strengthen the company's empowerment credentials and image in the marketplace. The full Belay team is very excited and proud to be part of the EOH family.”

Belay was awarded the 2010 Microsoft Custom Development Solutions Partner of the Year and was also a 2010 finalist as Microsoft's Data Management Solutions Partner of the Year. The acquisition is subject to Competition Board approval.

EOH is in the top three listed business and IT solution provider in Africa and has over 2 300 employees and a turnover in excess of R2 billion. EOH has shown annual compound growth of around 40% and compounded annual earnings per share growth of 28% since listing on the JSE in 1998.

EOH is a Large Enterprise Level 3 BEE contributor, which ranks in the top 5% of JSE listed companies.

For more information, visit http://www.eoh.co.za or http://www.belay.co.za.

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EOH is a business and technology solutions provider creating lifelong partnerships by developing business and IT strategies, supplying and implementing solutions and managing enterprise-wide business systems and processes for medium to large clients.

EOH operates in the following three clusters of business units as a fully integrated business:

Technology - Through a number of subsidiary companies, EOH is able to sell, implement and support a range of world-class business applications including ERP, CRM, business intelligence, advanced planning and scheduling, e-commerce and manufacturing execution systems (MES).

Consulting - Concentrated under the EOH Consulting brand are business units offering services ranging from strategic and business process consulting, project services, change management, supply chain optimisation and education.

Outsourcing - EOH offers comprehensive maintenance and support of client's IT infrastructure and applications through the rendering of full IT outsourcing, application hosting and managed services. In addition EOH offers full business process outsourcing (BPO) services.

EOH has a presence in all major centres in South Africa and operates in the rest of Africa.

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Samantha Watt
Watt Communications
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