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ATIO awarded Level 2 B-BBEE status - December 2014


Johannesburg, 11 Dec 2014

Specialist ICT services company, Atio, is pleased to announce that it has ? for the second year in a row ? been awarded Level 2 B-BBEE Status and has also been recognised as a Value-Adding Supplier (VAS) by the BEE Verification Agency, Mazars.

Key to the renewed rating is the fact that the company is a black-owned company, and now Atio customers are again entitled to claim 312.5% recognition of their procurement spend with Atio for their own B-BBEE certification.

"Over the years, we have made serious investments in numerous black economic empowerment initiatives, the idea was never about merely achieving targets, but rather to put in place a viable and sustainable transformation plan to deal with transformation imperatives in our business," says Atio CEO, Chris Van der Sande.

As part of its transformation imperatives, Atio has revised and realigned its staff equity and procurement strategies to stay closely in line with its B-BBEE plan, as well as implementing internal capacity-building initiatives to improve skills development opportunities in the company. Today, its skills development programmes are registered with MICT SETA and it has managed to maintain a working partnership with the institution for almost a decade.

"At Atio, we believe training and skills development should be a business priority never to be compromised, however tough it might be," adds Van der Sande.

According to Van der Sande, Atio's Level 2 status has come as a result of hard work and a lot of long-term planning on the part of the entire business.

"Achieving a level 2 BEE status, two years running, in an industry that is still white male dominated, is a true indication of our investment as a company in our own staff. Our organisational development strategy is centred on developing our staff from junior levels into leadership positions, and where possible to create job opportunities, particularly for previously disadvantaged individuals. This obviously requires a huge financial investment and focussed effort, but 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. In short, looking ahead, our strategy is and always will be about our people," he ends.

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Atio is a B-BBEE Level 2, black-owned company that has been providing specialised ICT services for over two decades with two divisions each focusing on clearly-defined niche markets.

Atio interactive division focuses on the provision of high quality solutions for contact centres and is a leader in voice, data and contact centre in Africa. By offering managed IT services to a broad customer profile, together with the provision of technology management and business process services associated with telephony and call centres, Atio has shown how its focus has changed from merely selling products and services to that of selling solutions.

Atio telecoms division provides service assurance and network performance management solutions to telecoms operators, service providers, technology vendors and regulatory authorities. Atio also offers selected unique products to its customers to permanently enable their service assurance and quality management processes.

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