LaserCom, South Africa's leading direct marketing, variable print, mail processing and envelope manufacturing specialist, has been rated a Level 2 Contributor and Value-Adding Supplier by Empowerdex. The rating was awarded after a surge in compliance with the DTI's Codes of Good Practice, with LaserCom and PaperGeni moving from 68.6% to 91.02%. LaserCom and PaperGeni were formerly Level 4 Contributors.
The company's rating means that its customers can claim R1.5625 for every rand spent with LaserCom and PaperGeni as affirmative procurement.
"This is a terrific incentive for our existing and potential customers," says Owen Jacobs, the manager tasked with co-ordinating LaserCom's and PaperGeni's BEE efforts. "None of our competitors has a comparable BEE rating, so this gives us a significant competitive edge.
"It has been a gratifying year for LaserCom and PaperGeni. We have made huge progress towards our targets, and are proud to be contributing to the Altron Group's Vision 2012."
In the last 12 months, LaserCom and PaperGeni achieved the following:
* It improved its training and skills development, to the extent that it scored a maximum 15 points.
* It boosted management control to 6.75 out of 10 points.
* It enhanced employment equity to 12.42 out of a potential 15 points.
* It registered 18.25 out of a possible 20 points for preferential procurement.
* It registered a maximum 15 points for enterprise development, and a maximum five for corporate CSI.
"Our main achievement in terms of enterprise development was assisting a black-owned company to set up a canteen for our staff," notes Jacobs. "With CSI, our major achievement was a significant donation of cash to Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth."
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LaserCom
LaserCom, formerly Laser Facilities, is the national leader in its space. With operations in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town, it fulfils the printing and postal requirements of most telcos, and many other blue-chip organisations. It produces more than 30 million pages a month, and recently launched South Africa's first transpromo (transactional/promotional) service.
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