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Fastway to open in South Africa
Fastway Couriers, the world's largest courier franchise, will establish its first South African operation in Pretoria later this year. This brings the number of countries the Napier-based Fastway group operates in to ten.
Established in New Zealand in 1983, the privately -owned company has pursued a franchise business model to expand internationally. South African businessmen Mark van Niekerk and Murray Duncan are the operating directors of the South African company that has been granted the franchise rights to operate the Fastway system in South Africa, and they plan to expand throughout the country.
Mark van Niekerk says that Fastway Couriers fills a niche in the South African market for companies that require delivery services. 'The service is low cost and couldn't be easier to use, utilising prepaid colour labels for different destinations. The pricing is very transparent, so there is no need for tiresome negotiations, and signing up as a customer is quick and easy.'
With backgrounds in transport operations Messrs van Niekerk and Duncan see the Fastway model as ideal for South Africa. Mr Duncan says that information technology plays an important role in delivering a seamless service.
'Fastway's couriers carry hand -held computers which not only provide real -time signatures online following parcel delivery, but also feed relevant information back to a central point for business management purposes.
A business partner for the Pretoria regional franchise is currently being sought, which will be closely followed by an intense campaign to recruit courier franchisees in Pretoria.
Speaking from Fastway Global's corporate headquarters in Napier, Group Managing Director Brem Ellingham said that expansion into South Africa is a logical move for the opening of Fastway's tenth country. 'The market niche that has been Fastway's success in other countries is just as apparent in SA.'
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