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The Kit Group is South Africa’s leading uniform solutions & management specialist focusing in all types of uniforms and safety wear.

In June 1999, Security Kit and Alexandra Workwear amalgamated to establish The Kit Group. Both companies collectively had 42 years experience in the workwear and security wear industries.

The Kit Group offers complete uniform solutions that allow its customers to remain focused on their core business. The uniform solutions function offered by The Kit Group includes the conception and design, the manufacture and supply of uniforms and accessories to all sectors including industrial, mining, security, medical, corporate, leisure and hospitality, traffic, fire and emergency services.

A unique service the Kit Group offers its clients is ’offsite’ storage. Our bulk warehousing facility enables clients with branded garments to store their supplies at our warehouse thus ensuring high levels of service delivery to our customers at all times. The goods are managed on behalf of the clients through our ’Offsite Vendor Management System’ software.

For those clients that have high uniform and PPE usages and demand high levels of service and maintenance, we also have a solution called the ’Onsite Vendor Management System’ which is in effect a warehouse or storage facility at the client’s own premises. Stock is issued onsite using the IT software and is replenished from our central warehouse once minimum stock levels are reached.

The Kit Group head office is based New Doornfontein, Johannesburg and there are also branches in Pretoria, Polokwane, Rustenburg, Nelspruit, Swaziland, Mozambique, Angola, Namibia and agencies in Port Elizabeth and Kimberley and a franchise in Richards Bay.

The Kit Group also has a growing export market to Africa.

In 2004, 2005 and 2006 The Kit Group was nominated as a Top National Company in terms of job creation and economic growth by Impumelelo and The Department of Trade & Industry. In 2006, the Department of Trade and Industry, in conjunction with Impumelelo, nominated The Kit Group as a Top Empowerment Company in the Clothing and Footwear sector.

The Kit Group also received an Achievement Award from the Ekurhuleni Business Initiative for its contribution towards local economic growth.

Vision, Mission & Strategy

Vision

"Our vision is to remain the preferred channel partner of choice & be recognised as the leading uniform solutions specialist to the industrial & security sector".

Mission

The Kit Group will endeavour to understand the needs of its clients, keeping them secure in the knowledge that it will fulfil their needs from conceptualisation & design of their workwear, to its manufacture & ultimately the supply of a completely personalised solution to their business.

Strategy

The critical component of our business strategy is based on maximising our growth and profitability and that of our partners, shareholders and stakeholders. Our primary focus will be on:

• Skills Development.
• Corporate Social Investment in previously disadvantaged communities.
• Equity ownership by previously disadvantaged individuals.
• Enhancing growth in the business partnerships that we are involved in.

Business Partners

We believe in partnerships that are based on trust, ethics and integrity. It is this belief that forms the cornerstone of our commitment to forming sustainable and mutually beneficial partnerships with our business partners.

In January 2007 SASFIN Bank Limited, through their private equity division SASFIN Capital took up a 28.5% stake in the Kit Group.

We have a number of associations with manufacturing concerns who supply and manufacture a variety of uniforms and accessories on The Kit Group’ behalf. Through these and other “Cut, Make & Trim” partnerships, The Kit Group contributes to the employment of many people. The Kit Group has been instrumental in many manufacturing concerns, survival and sustenance.

Business Principles

Our business principles are guided by three important aspects; firstly our Code of Conduct which is guided by ethics, integrity, trust and respect for others.

The second aspect is Compliance with the Law in The Republic of South Africa and all the countries in which we do business.

The final aspect is Corporate Governance where we are totally committed to the highest levels of corporate governance and promote these amongst all our business partners and stakeholders.

Subsidiaries

• By Appointment (Pty) Ltd who specialise in the corporate clothing market.
• Impact Gear, a niche security uniform supplier

Black Economic Empowerment

In 2006, the Department of Trade and Industry, in conjunction with Impumelelo, nominated The Kit Group as a Top Empowerment Company in the Clothing and Footwear Sector.

The Kit Group believes in Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment and is determined to realise its objectives. The Kit Group are also involved in various partnerships with individuals from previously disadvantaged communities including women’s empowerment groups as well as disabled groups where the focus is on mutually beneficial partnerships through The Kit Group Foundation.

The Kit Group and Bathlabane Investments, a Bafokeng owned company, recently set up a company called The Kit Group North West where both parties are 50% shareholders. The Bafokeng consortium consists of members from previously disadvantaged communities in the Royal Bafokeng nation.

People

We at the Kit Group believe in giving our clients the best quality products and service. The knowledge that our people have of our industry is the key differentiator against our competitors. Each individual customer has unique requirements and through tailor made solutions we ensure each customer’s needs are met.

We believe that our biggest asset is our people and constantly invest in them through internal and external training programmes. This way we ensure that they are kept up to date with technological changes in the industry.

We also have a ‘Staff Wellness Committee’ where issues affecting the wellbeing of our staff are discussed and resolved.

Directors

Corporate Social Investment

Our policy regarding Corporate Social Investment at The Kit Group has always focused on getting involved in sustainable projects as opposed to donations. It is in this light that we are involved in various projects, through our Kit Group Foundation, where we offer training and advice to various local community based projects where the focus is on local economic growth.

In turn, we make use of their skills and expertise as and when required with a focus on helping to create tomorrows businesses.

We touch peoples’lives in all we do and it is this element and nature of our business that makes us a people business.