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ATIO awarded level one B-BBEE status for the second year in a row


Johannesburg, 29 Nov 2018

ATIO, a specialist ICT services company, is proud to announce it has again achieved level one B-BBEE status. This, for the second year in a row, awarded by Mazars, a SANAS accredited B-BBEE verification agency.

"ATIO has proven its valour once again, a true champion of transformation in South Africa. After steadily improving our status each year and achieving level one status for the first time in 2017, our challenge was then to maintain this prestigious status. In order to achieve this goal, we once again invested resources in this project and closely monitored and maintained the strategic plans and initiatives that we had put in place for the past five years.

"The results of this is a level one B-BBEE status being awarded again to ATIO in November 2018. What makes this achievement even more significant is the knowledge that ATIO is among only a few ICT companies that have managed to be consistent in this regard. We believe that this is a clear indication of our commitment to transformation, and we are proud about this achievement," says ATIO CEO Chris Van der Sande.

The fact that ATIO is also a black-owned company means ATIO customers are now entitled to 135% recognition of their procurement spend with ATIO for their own B-BBEE certification.

"This milestone was not achieved by fluke. Over the years, we have made considerable investments in numerous black economic empowerment initiatives. The idea was never about just merely achieving targets, but rather to put in place a viable and sustainable transformation plan to deal with key imperatives in our business," says Van der Sande.

As part of its empowerment objectives, ATIO has revised and realigned its staff equity, ownership, procurement strategies and the overall employment relations strategy to support and stay closely in line with its B-BBEE plan. Various internal capacity-building initiatives have been put in place to improve skills development opportunities in the company. ATIO's skills development programmes are registered with MICT SETA and it has managed to maintain a close working relationship with the institution for over a decade.

"The support we get from MICT SETA has been great over the years, and the institution adds significant value to our skills development agenda. Over and above that, as a business we believe that training and skills development should be a business priority never to be compromised on, however tough the economy might be. This obviously requires a huge financial investment and focused effort; however, at ATIO we see that not as a "challenge", but a solution, and to a larger extent an intrinsic part of our culture and what we as a business want to stand for. Our strategy has always been about our people, and that is how we would like to continue going forward," concluded Van der Sande.

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ATIO is a B-BBEE level one, black-owned company that has been providing specialised ICT services for over three decades, with two divisions each focusing on clearly defined niche markets.

ATIO interactive division specialises in supplying, deploying and supporting on-premises and cloud enterprise telephony and contact centre, mission-critical, complex infrastructure platforms and innovative advanced applications focused on addressing business objectives. ATIO has shown how its focus has changed from merely selling products and services to that of selling solutions.

ATIO telecoms division provides a spectrum of services to the telecoms industry, ranging from network testing and performance benchmarking, sophisticated monitoring and next-generation operational support systems to network optimisation and cyber security solutions.

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Face Lesabe
ATIO Corporation
(+27) 011 235 7329
facel@atio.co.za