Business Excellence
Bigen Group
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ince its inception 50 years
development impact and advisory, and
From the many lessons learnt over the
ago, the Bigen Group has
institutional services.
past 50 years, the Group understands
transformed from a traditional
Earning a reputation as an innovative,
that in this era of socio-economic
solutions-focused engineering and
transformation, public and private
operating from one office in Polokwane to
infrastructure development partner,
enterprises need to partner with
a truly African infrastructure development
the Bigen Group contributes towards
experienced service providers who can
group of companies with eight regional
socio-economic development in Africa by
offer synergistic benefits, joint value
offices in South Africa, headquarters in
creating sustainable infrastructure, as
creation and practical solutions to support
Mauritius and South Africa, as well as
well as generating and sharing wealth for
the achievement of SDGs by 2030.
representation in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya,
all its shareholders.
engineering consultancy
Mozambique, Namibia and Zambia.
In all of its projects, unskilled and
The Group’s philosophy is embodied in its creed of ‘doing good while doing
semi-skilled labour is locally sourced and
business’, which is consistently evident in
100% of its fee income from consulting
local subcontractors are supported to do
the socio-economic impacts derived from
engineering services. Today, it has
work. In addition, inclusivity, localisation,
every project the Group undertakes.
transformed into a multidisciplinary group
indigenisation and beneficiation are
wthat derives 60% of its earnings from
inextricably linked to the planning, design
the Bigen Group to not only rebuild Africa
advisory services and 40% of its earnings
and execution of all Group projects.
in the aftermath of Covid-19 and the
In 1994, the Bigen Group derived
from investments and concessions.
Helping Africa achieve the Sustainable
There are enormous opportunities for
recent spate of violence and lootings that
The Bigen Group operates within the
Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030
shocked the country, but also to assist
agricultural, water and sanitation, real
has become especially critical since
Africa in reaching its 2030 SDGs. Armed
estate, transportation, energy, health, and
the outbreak of the Covid-19
with an excellent leadership corps, strong
development advisory sectors, responding
pandemic. According to a World Bank
management team and the support from
to the continent’s socio-economic
report, Covid-19 has forced up to
its employees, the Bigen Group aims
development needs with a blend of
40 million people living in Africa into
to build upon its legacy of success and
financial, technical, environmental,
extreme poverty.
satisfied stakeholders across Africa.
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