Altron subsidiary Bytes UK has agreed to buy 100% of Blenheim, the holding company of British value-added reseller Phoenix Software, for £35.9m, or about R650m. The deal will be funded through a combination
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Former Altech CEO and Altron TMT group executive Craig Venter was given a R15m “separation payment” when he left the technology group last year, despite poor performance by several of
At some point, JSE-listed Altron’s bombed out share price is going to look like a bargain. But it’s hard to know when that will be. The Venter-run family business last week announced a loss of R1,1bn for the year to February, drowning the previous
Robbie Venter, 56, is likely to step down as Altron’s CEO at the end of February, or soon thereafter, handing the reins to a non-family member for the first time in its storied, 51-year history. First, though, Venter – the son of Altron founder Bill
Troubled technology group Altron has reported a 75c normalised diluted headline loss per share for the 2016 financial year to 29 February, a sharp reversal from headline earnings per share in 2015 of 99c. In light of the poor numbers, and the need
Technology group Altron expects to report a 90c/share headline loss in the year ended 29 February 2016, a deterioration from the loss of 3c/share reported a year ago, it warned shareholders after markets closed in Johannesburg on Monday. This compares to a headline
Troubled diversified technology group Altron has announced it will consolidate its head office, with subsidiaries Altech and Bytes – currently housed in a building in Woodmead, Johannesburg – moving to Altron’s head office in Parktown. The move will allow
Altron has named Andrew Holden as the successor to Rob Abraham at its subsidiary, Bytes Technology Group. The long-serving Abraham will step down as Bytes CEO on 29 February 2016, with Holden to step in as operations executive for information technology. In recent
JSE-listed technology group Altron will in future be a significantly smaller business focused on the IT and telecommunications industries as it sheds non-core assets and loss-making businesses, especially in the legacy power infrastructure side of its business. Robbie Venter has resolved
Reduced demand for set-top boxes, poor sales of Altech’s much-hyped Node product, the loss of a television assembly business, tough trading conditions at Autopage Cellular and poor performance at