TechCentralTechCentral
    Facebook Twitter YouTube LinkedIn
    Facebook Twitter LinkedIn YouTube
    TechCentral TechCentral
    NEWSLETTER
    • News

      Unlawful Eskom strike costing South Africa three stages of load shedding

      1 July 2022

      Striking Eskom workers will face consequences: De Ruyter

      1 July 2022

      The AI tool that has changed my life as a developer

      1 July 2022

      Google.co.za is down and the domain is pending deletion

      1 July 2022

      US files charges over South African bitcoin fraud scheme

      1 July 2022
    • World

      Meta girds for ‘fierce’ headwinds

      1 July 2022

      Graphics card prices plummet as crypto demand dries up

      30 June 2022

      Bitcoin just had its worst quarter in a decade

      30 June 2022

      Samsung beats TSMC to 3nm chip production

      30 June 2022

      Napster plots crypto comeback

      29 June 2022
    • In-depth

      The NFT party is over

      30 June 2022

      The great crypto crash: the fallout, and what happens next

      22 June 2022

      Goodbye, Internet Explorer – you really won’t be missed

      19 June 2022

      Oracle’s database dominance threatened by rise of cloud-first rivals

      13 June 2022

      Everything Apple announced at WWDC – in less than 500 words

      7 June 2022
    • Podcasts

      How your organisation can triage its information security risk

      22 June 2022

      Everything PC S01E06 – ‘Apple Silicon’

      15 June 2022

      The youth might just save us

      15 June 2022

      Everything PC S01E05 – ‘Nvidia: The Green Goblin’

      8 June 2022

      Everything PC S01E04 – ‘The story of Intel – part 2’

      1 June 2022
    • Opinion

      Has South Africa’s advertising industry lost its way?

      21 June 2022

      Rob Lith: What Icasa’s spectrum auction means for SA companies

      13 June 2022

      A proposed solution to crypto’s stablecoin problem

      19 May 2022

      From spectrum to roads, why fixing SA’s problems is an uphill battle

      19 April 2022

      How AI is being deployed in the fight against cybercriminals

      8 April 2022
    • Company Hubs
      • 1-grid
      • Altron Document Solutions
      • Amplitude
      • Atvance Intellect
      • Axiz
      • BOATech
      • CallMiner
      • Digital Generation
      • E4
      • ESET
      • Euphoria Telecom
      • IBM
      • Kyocera Document Solutions
      • Microsoft
      • Nutanix
      • One Trust
      • Pinnacle
      • Skybox Security
      • SkyWire
      • Tarsus on Demand
      • Videri Digital
      • Zendesk
    • Sections
      • Banking
      • Broadcasting and Media
      • Cloud computing
      • Consumer electronics
      • Cryptocurrencies
      • Education and skills
      • Energy
      • Fintech
      • Information security
      • Internet and connectivity
      • Internet of Things
      • Investment
      • IT services
      • Motoring and transport
      • Public sector
      • Science
      • Social media
      • Talent and leadership
      • Telecoms
    • Advertise
    TechCentralTechCentral
    Home»News»How Vox breathes fun into its annual reports

    How Vox breathes fun into its annual reports

    News By Editor9 February 2010
    Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp Telegram Email
    Doug Reed and Tony van Marken
    Doug Reed and Tony van Marken

    Most annual reports are turgid slabs of text, documents that only financial analysts have the stamina to read. Not so the reports of Vox Telecom.

    For the fourth year running, the AltX-listed telecommunications group has modelled its annual report after a popular magazine.

    This year’s report, for the financial year ended August 2009, is based on Sports Illustrated. Called Vox Illustrated, the theme is — you guessed it — sports.

    It’s not often you’ll see the directors of a listed company in shorts and t-shirts hamming it up in the gym! But that’s exactly what CEO Tony van Marken and group MD Doug Reed, along with fellow executives Jacques du Toit, Gary Sweidan and Mike van Holdt, are photographed doing in this year’s report.

    Vox annual report (click to enlarge)
    Vox annual report (click to enlarge)

    Edited by Vox marketing head Clayton Timcke, with photography by Jurie Potgieter, Vox Illustrated is meant as a marketing document as much as it is a record of the company’s financial position, says Van Marken.

    In previous years, Vox’s annual reports have been modelled on National Geographic and Time magazines. Last year’s report, Vox Geographic, won a Lourie at the advertising industry’s annual awards ceremony.

    Van Marken says the idea is to “educate and entertain” the group’s customers and prospective customers. “Every employee gets one and our salespeople use it as a selling tool,” Van Marken says. “Customers love it — it’s a talking point.”

    Readers should get a chuckle out of seeing Van Marken and Reed kitted out as football coaches, or seeing Vox Core hosting manager Justin Elms pretending to play squash in the group’s data centre facility.

    Then there’s an article on a 14-member Vox expedition, led by Van Marken, a keen mountaineer, up Turkey’s Mount Ararat. Van Marken has led a number of such expeditions in recent years.

    Van Marken credits Xfacta, a boutique agency, for many of the creative ideas behind the Vox annual reports.  — Duncan McLeod, TechCentral

    • Subscribe to our free daily newsletter
    • Follow us on Twitter or on Facebook
    Vox Telecom
    Share. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp Telegram Email
    Previous ArticleWirelessG fires fresh salvo in broadband price war
    Next Article Union wants Sentech board axed

    Related Posts

    Unlawful Eskom strike costing South Africa three stages of load shedding

    1 July 2022

    Striking Eskom workers will face consequences: De Ruyter

    1 July 2022

    The AI tool that has changed my life as a developer

    1 July 2022
    Add A Comment

    Comments are closed.

    Promoted

    Billetterie simplifies interactions between law firms and clients

    30 June 2022

    Think herding cats is tricky? Try herding a cloud

    29 June 2022

    How your business can help hybrid workers effectively

    28 June 2022
    Opinion

    Has South Africa’s advertising industry lost its way?

    21 June 2022

    Rob Lith: What Icasa’s spectrum auction means for SA companies

    13 June 2022

    A proposed solution to crypto’s stablecoin problem

    19 May 2022

    Subscribe to Updates

    Get the best South African technology news and analysis delivered to your e-mail inbox every morning.

    © 2009 - 2022 NewsCentral Media

    Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.