JSE-listed Altron, now under the leadership of former MTN South Africa CEO Mteto Nyati, will pursue acquisitions to bolster its capability in four areas Nyati has identified as key to the technology group’s future growth. Nyati, speaking to TechCentral
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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
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
Significant losses at Altech Multimedia and Powertech will contribute to a dismal set of full-year results at technology and industrial group Altron. The group cautioned shareholders on Friday afternoon that although its Altron TMT
Altron is actively pursuing a sale of its set-top box manufacturing business, Altech UEC, TechCentral has established reliably from two well-placed sources. The group, which is disposing of noncore assets in a restructuring process that will see it focus on its
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
It’s been 50 years since Bill Venter, then a 33-year-old telecommunications engineer, founded Allied Electric, the company that would go on to become the Altron group. Alongside publication of its results for the year ended February 2015, Altron
South African couch potatoes have never had it so good. In the past fortnight, two new video-on-demand offerings have been launched, one using broadband connections to deliver entertainment into
Altron appears to be firing on all cylinders. The technology group, which owns Altech, Bytes and Powertech, has reported a 49% improvement in normalised headline earnings per share on the back of a 12% improvement in revenue. It has hiked its dividend to 80c/share, from 60c in 2013. The strong performance was underpinned
Altech’s share price fell by more than 4% in late afternoon trading on Wednesday after it turned in a huge loss for the financial year ended 28 February. The JSE-listed technology group, which has had a torrid time in recent years because of the poor performance of its operations outside South Africa, turned