SILVERAY STATMARK COMPANY
branches
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BRANCHES Tommy Jones
James Kinnell
Layton Brown
Cape Town Cnr Borchard Quarry & Bahrain Roads, Airport Industria, Cape Town (021) 936 5200 Branch Manager: Tommy Jones SSC Cape Town recently integrated PWS Cape Town, which extends its variety of products and improves resources. The current team of 51 serves an area that includes The Garden Route in the south to Springbok in the west coast and as far as Beaufort West inland. Tommy has had 36 years of service with SSC, eight as sales manager He was recently been appointed branch manager.
Port Elizabeth 7A Stockelbach Road, North End., Port Elizabeth (041) 391 8600 Branch Manager: James Kinnell Since the early 1980s, this small branch (currently just 12 personnel) has been responsible for an area covering George, Oudtshoorn, Knysna, Plettenberg Bay, Grahamstown, Port Alfred, Cradock, Graaff Reinette, Jeffrey’s Bay, Uitenhage and Middleburg (Cape). His main aim is to keep customers happy, offering support and advice on the best purchases. Kinnell has over 41 years’ experience in the industry.
Pretoria 10 Teco Maria Street, Montana Park, Ext 57, Pretoria (012) 523 1000 Branch Manager: Layton Brown This branch, headed up by Layton Brown as branch manager, has a team of 51 and has been active since 1973. It operated as Pretoria Wholesale Stationers originally. It covers up to Middelburg (Mpumalanga) in the east, Rustenburg in the west, Lephalale in the north and Midrand in the south. The Pretoria branch handles the bulk of SSC’s wholesale business and has special distribution rights of THRASS (an educational series), which is distributed only from Pretoria.
my office magazine
The Silveray Statmark Company (SSC) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Bidvest Group Limited and part of the Bidpaper Plus Division. The company has a national sales and distribution network. Its head office is in Johannesburg, supported by branches in Bloemfontein, Cape Town, Durban, East London, Port Elizabeth and Pretoria. Here is a glimpse into each of the branch offices.
Gerhard Beukes
Hassina Yunus
John Paynter
Bloemfontein 66A Harvey Road, Bloemfontein (051) 447 4641 Branch Manager: Gerhard Beukes Covering an extraordinarily large area including the Free State, Northern Cape and Lesotho, is a challenge to this branch, which has been active for nearly 40 years. The tightly-knit team of 22 has many years of loyal service between them and is focused on building client relationships. Although recently appointed, Gerhard Beukes’ business management background has had a positive effect on the subsidiary’s growth.
Durban 70 Richard Carte Road, Mobeni, Durban (031) 462 2081 Branch Manager: Hassina Yunus The longest-established of all SSC branches, Durban has been active for well over a century. It has 52 team members, all dedicated to its core business. Hassina Yunus, branch manager for the past 15 years, has 25 years of industry experience and is focused on treating each and every customer as royalty.
East London 7 Acacia Street, Braelyn, East London (043) 722 3781 Branch Manager: John Paynter The East London branch is well established and covers the whole of the old Transkei and Siskei areas, which is considerable. The 19-member team is close knit and offers customers unique attention so as to fill their needs unstintingly. John Paynter has been with the company for 34 years, 27 of them as branch manager. Vol 96 - Issue 09