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Reshaping South Africa’s retail marketing landscape, Provantage, one of Africa’s largest integrated media and marketing companies, has acquired POP Warehouse in a strategic deal facilitated by Novitas Capital Advisors. The acquisition strengthens Provantage’s retail services, enabling a fully integrated point-of-purchase (POP) supply chain solution that enhances efficiencies and delivers greater value to brands and consumers. [...]

Dana Gordon-Davis - Novitas | 25 Iconic African Dealmakers Dana Gordon-Davis is a seasoned corporate financier with 23 years of experience spanning diverse sectors, including financial services, technology, media, manufacturing, logistics, and retail. Over his career, Dana has completed over 50 advisory mandates and pioneered an innovative approach to deal structuring called “value sharing,” which [...]

Novitas advised Pegasys on its strategic sale to RSK Group, a global leader in environmental, engineering, and sustainability consulting This transformative transaction enables Pegasys to accelerate its global expansion while enhancing RSK’s high-value management and strategy consulting capabilities. Pegasys, a 170-person strategy and management consultancy headquartered in Cape Town, has built a strong reputation for [...]

Last year Novitas advised on the sale of Popcorn Training, a South African computer-based training company, to Florida-based KnowBe4, the world’s largest security training platform; and eShare, a UK-based business-to-business software company, to New York-based Diligent Corporation. We also embarked on a long-term relationship with the PURA Beverage Company, an exciting new better-for-you carbonated soft drink brand. [...]

Competition board approves the Dentsu Aegis purchase of a majority stake in FoxP2. The deal, put together by Novitas Capital Advisors, sees Dentsu Aegis broaden its offering in Sub Saharan Africa while at the same time launching FoxP2’s creative expertise to a global market. “When we first started discussing an [...]

We are extremely proud of what we accomplished in 2017. In many ways it was a breakthrough year for Novitas Capital Advisors. We successfully concluded four deals over the past year with a combined transaction value of R1.1 billion. With an average deal size of R280 million, Novitas Capital Advisors [...]

Your business is your biggest asset and selling it can be one of the most stressful events in your life. It is vitally important that you have a specialist corporate finance advisor in your corner to achieve the maximum return on your investment.  One such bespoke firm is Novitas, which [...]