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    TC|Daily | Alviva Holdings: champagne results, a delisting and ‘Pierre pressure’

    Alviva Holdings’ latest financial results show a group firing on all cylinders. But can the party last? Executives Pierre Spies and Craig Brunsden are in-studio.
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    Alviva Holdings’ latest financial results show a group firing on all cylinders – full-year dividend up 90%, revenue up 57% and headline earnings per share up 91%. But can the party last?

    Group CEO Pierre Spies and Craig Brusden, CEO of technology distributor Axiz (Alviva’s largest subsidiary), join Duncan McLeod in the TC|Daily studio to unpack just how the group managed to turn in such stellar results amid a weak local economy and a constrained global supply chain.

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    • The impact of the semiconductor supply crisis, which is now rapidly easing.
    • How Amazon.com’s launch of an online retail marketplace in South Africa next year will change the IT distribution game.
    • The talks to buy out Alviva and take it private – and why Spies believes there is no value in being listed.

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