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SignForce makes signs, signage and BEE sense!

Random example of signage At the core of our business is the desire to provide great signs and signage with competence and attention to service. This has meant instituting in-house training schemes, skills training and signage manufacture systems to ensure you and your needs, are paramount to the company. Along the way, the management felt it important to involve the staff in achieving this objective - long before BEE or BBBEE became either fashionable or a requirement.
The company has been committed to training (functional skills and life skills) and upgrading its staff since 1999, when the then new owner introduced many progressive concepts.
The training on life skills and financial skills has enabled the SignForce workers to be able to improve their own status in their communities, earn incomes far higher than the average in the industry and take ownership of their own company.

Our focus is on producing great signage - through investment in our staff

William Velankulu and Cornelius Dlamini (director) A special Trust has been formed called, appropriately, "The SignForce staff Share Trust". This Trust owns 55% of the company - giving control of the company to its staff.
The staff members themselves convened and selected those staff members to be trained for specific management positions. This includes election of one of their members as a director of SignForce (Pty) Ltd.

Summary of evaluation that is being audited by SignForce

Points Rating
Category Possible points SignForce rating

Ownership 23.0 12.1

Management 22.0 6.24

Employment Equity 20.0 6.06

Skills Development and learnerships 20.0 15.0

Preferential Procurement 20.0 0.80

Total 105.0 40.11

Subject to audit, this makes SignForce a Level 3 contributor

Part of the team finishing a job on site, at night, to meet deadlines

Company Structure

Directors

Arnold Pollak, Managing Director
Cornelius Dhlamini

Ownership

Owner	Share
SignForce Staff Share Trust	55%
Kallop Holdings	15%
Arnold Pollak	30%

Staff Structure

updated 14 June 2008

Position	Total	PDI	Women
Directors	2	1
Staff (excludes Directors)	15	7	4

Enabling effective transition to ownership

Two senior workers captured on camera on site

A necessary requirement for the transition to PDI ownership has been the funding of the share purchase by the SignForce Staff Share Trust. This has been facilitated by a combination of loans to the staff made by the previous owners.

We are currently seeking funding from appropriate bodies to assist in this process as well as fund the additional training programmes that the company would like to run to further upgrade the quality of the workers as well as assist them in the transition to their new roles.

The company has also embarked on an expansion programme and is looking to expand its team of skilled and valuable workforce. It is anticipated that through planned and controlled expansion, we will be able to further assist with the financial aspects of this transition to ownership.

Ref 327 Category Cut out Letters:

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Ref 295 Category Vehicle Decoration:
This Voltano vehicle signage is visible, simple, clean and easy to read and has contact details. A great example of good mobile visibility.

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Ref 118 Category Pylons,Billboards & free standing:
This multi coloured sign clearly dsplays the client's name and the black backing at the bottom of the sign makes the multiple colours stand out. It is however important to take care when using a black background as the background can get lost in the surrounding 'noise', and the intended message may be lost into the 'noise' as well.

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Ref 5 Category Door & office signs:
This custom made stressed steel face with a punched out logo and opal perspex placed behind with the whole sign iluminated from behind giving the sign a unique and attractive look.

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Ref 240 Category Door & office signs:
This office identification sign is manufactured out of digitally printed vinyl and individually cut-out Perspex letters, used to help passengers identify the office. Digitally printed vinyl is applied directly onto the Perspex to match Kulula's corporate colors specifications.

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Ref 56 Category Sandblast & Interior Design:
Sandblast vinyl commonly used on glass stylishly displays trading business hours in this case.

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