Greg Hanna (right) chief executive of Hannafrica.com receives the Gauteng Exporter of the Year trophy from Ben Kruger, managing director Standard Corporate and Merchant Bank, one of the event sponsors. EMPLOYING CRAFTS people from rural areas has paid off handsomely for Hannafrica.com, a Kew, Johannesburg based company which won the Gauteng Exporter of the Year 2003 award at the annual Johannesburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry event last week. The company took top honours as well in the Services Category. It exports African style handcrafts, ranging from furniture down to wire trinkets and toys which are now sold in various parts of the world. Applause at the function came for the runner-up in the Services Section, Katlego Global Logistics, which also won the Gauteng Excellence Award, a special award that goes to the newcomer entrant in the annual event which has reached the highest recorded performance level during the previous year. In this Katlego also became the first Black Empowerment company to receive an award at the Gauteng function. Circuit Breaker Industries, which exports low voltage protection equipment, was judged tops in the large manufacturing category. The Medium-Size Manufacturing Category was won by Midrand-based Aerospace Monitoring Systems. Sponsors of the event were Standard Corporate and Merchant Bank, National Ports Authority (NPA), Maersk Sealand, Emirates, Credit Guarantee and Matrix Marketing.
