Esquire Technologies, Centurion

Esquire is a privately owned black empowerment company with a management team and staff from diverse backgrounds that understands that successful businesses are built through strong relationships, a culture of hard work, opportunity creation and delivery of commitments to customers and vendors alike, as well as to be responsible members of the community and the environment.

Established in 1999 as a small business and today, Esquire is based in Samrand / Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa at the Esquire Digital Lifestyle Park, which is an 8, 000 square metre warehousing and main logistics centre with regional branches in Cape Town, Durban and Port Elizabeth. The company continuously strives to extend the geographical coverage and has extended its footprint into neighbouring SADC (Southern African Development Community) countries such as Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

The company strives to be a leader in innovative business practices that has developed the World's first custom-tailored supply chain management system called the Virtual Reseller Network (VRN) which is ideally suited to meet the priorities and distribution requirements of the Online e-commerce, Business-to-Business (B2B) and Business-to-Consumer (B2C) markets and currently serves a customer base of over 12, 500 active partners and over 400 Online Stores across the southern African region.

Awards

Esquire has to date, achieved over a 100 Local and International awards for its exceptional channel performance, receiving numerous awards for outstanding promotion of world class brands; value added services, as well as business-to-business excellence such as the Distributor of the Year at the 2009 CRN Outlook Awards, 2010 Metropolitan Oliver Empowerment Award.

Africa Distributor of Year in award 2012 and again in 2013, Esquire has also scored first for a South African distribution company by winning two awards – the African