In this edition of the Business Brighspot blog, we’re covering two South African SMEs who took a knock during lockdown but managed to keep their doors open.
Alice Taylor, Multiply Furniture
About your business
At Multiply Furniture we design, manufacture and retail a range of Scandi-lifestyle furniture and essentials, using both cutting edge technology and age-old carpentry methods. Our furniture is hand finished using sustainable materials in Cape Town, South Africa.
We pride ourselves in creating something unique for every home or office and more recently, home office.
How has your business changed during COVID-19?
Sales dropped drastically, but we are now seeing a gradual increase since there has been more economic activity.
Contact details:
Alice Taylor
Tumi Rabaji, Shauku Hub
About your business
ShaukuHub is a coworking space that offers beautifully crafted workspaces where people can create, connect, and grow their businesses. Located at Horizon Shopping Centre, the space offers all the amenities a business can require from parking space, banks, food courts, shopping and a Virgin Active Gym less than 100 metres from your office.
Renting space in a shared office means surrounding yourself with goal-oriented and high-achieving entrepreneurs and business people. This means every day is an opportunity to network with small business owners, great thinkers, consultants, and other entrepreneurs.
Being part of a coworking community means you are surrounded by potential partners, clients and mentors – giving you the ability to easily outsource to talent when you need help.
How has your business changed during COVID-19?
We were closed for the first 5 weeks of lockdown and unable to open our doors to remote workers. Since Level 3, we have now started allowing a limited number of people to use our co-working facilities, under strick COVID-19 regulations.
Contact details:
Tumi Rabaji
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The Business Brightspot blog was part of our Open for Business campaign. This is an initiative to give South African SMEs the tools and information they needed to re-open their businesses during COVID-19.
