About Us
The idea of THE GREY BOOK DIRECTORY was conceived about 3 years ago by its current founder and CEO Nazir Noor Mahomed
Nazir has been in the corporate environment as accountant for over 20 years and have worked for companies such as Cadbury Schweppes, Sasol and more recently with Kagiso Media Limited as Group Financial Manager and also Chief Financial Officer of Kagiso Exhibitions – a subsidiary of Kagiso Media Ltd.
During his tenure at Kagiso Media, he became very frustrated with the
implementation of BEE within the group. This frustration was mainly
due to not being able to find BEE compliant companies (SME or Large business)
to procure products and services from.
There was no repository of fully compliant and certified BEE entities to
access and as a result had to personally ensure that entities he dealt with
were BEE compliant or have began the process of complying with the BEE act.
As he was not able to find new BEE compliant entities the philosophy of
rotating suppliers also became very frustrating. Furthermore, the concept
of enterprise development could not be fully implemented as he was unable
to find fully compliant BEE SME companies.
When he left the Kagiso Group, late 2007, to pursue his own business interest
in the SME segment, he realised that the same applies - in reverse. Fully
compliant and certified SME entities find it difficult to market their products
and services to corporate business and government.
Again there is no repository for these BEE compliant SME entities to advertise
and market their entities to the larger companies.
Hence, THE GREY BOOK DIRECTORY a database of fully compliant and certified
B-BBEE entities.
THE GREY BOOK DIRECTORY IS A BUSINESS TO BUSINESS (B2B) DIRECTORY OF
FULLY B-BBEE COMPLIANT ENTITIES, IN POSSESSION OF A VALID B-BBEE
CERTIFICATE - ISSUED BY AN ACCREDITED B-BBEE VERIFICATION AGENCY.
!! THE GREY BOOK DIRECTORY IS AN INITIATIVE FULLY SUPPORTED BY THE DTI !!
The Grey Book Directory offers you the unique opportunity to advertise your products and services to a wider national audience than ever before. The potential to get a foot in the door with government, municipalities and corporate buyers should not be missed.
THE GREY BOOK DIRECTORY is
- Published in a hard copy directory (book form) as well as electronically via a website.
- Distributed annually – national coverage and distribution - ± 40, 000 hard copy directories.
- Publishing the entities full details, brief description, B-BBEE status, certificate no. and expiry date.
- Providing classified advertising space FREE of charge to MICRO enterprises.
- Distributing ± 8, 000 hard copy directories FREE to government departments and municipalities.
- Distributing ± 2, 000 hard copy directories FREE to the dti.
- HIGH quality, full colour and affordable advertising - compared to other print media - affordable to all.
- of HIGH quality, leather look bound, executive hard copy directory.
- For advertising rates and book form, please click on the RATE CARD tab.