Services

In actively promoting business investment in KwaZulu-Natal, Trade and Investment KwaZulu-Natal provides a range of services, which include:

  • Project Appraisal
 
    • Scientifically analysing prospective project viability in financial, cost benefit, social and environmental terms.
  • Site Identification and Evaluation
 
    • Undertaking the co-ordination, pre-planning and evaluation of sites and post site visits.
  • Sector Economic Data Provisioning
 
    • Providing and disseminating market intelligence as regards economic, sectoral and desktop data.
  • Backward and Forward Linkages
 
    • Facilitating secondary and downstream opportunities for Black Economic Empowerment and small and medium enterprises.
  • Business Permits (under the auspices of the Department of Trade and Industry)
 
    • Assisting in the submission of recommendations to the Department of Home Affairs as regards business permit provision.
  • Agreement Brokering
 
    • Ensuring the satisfactory and successful conclusion of necessary agreements by relevant parties and stakeholders.
  • Joint Venture Facilitation
 
    • Sourcing of joint venture partners, domestic and foreign, for both KwaZulu-Natal and international companies.
  • Capital-Raising
 
    • Facilitating the development of capital-raising opportunities on behalf of project promoters.
  • General Business Advice
 
    • Providing wide-ranging investment advice regarding locations, business conditions, regulations, labour practices and business services.
  • After-Care Services
 
    • Facilitating local and foreign business retention, expansion and after-care services.
  • Incentives
 
    • Marketing of national and local government incentives.
  • Inward and Outward Investment Promotion Missions
 
    • Hosting and co-ordinating inbound foreign and local business delegations and undertaking outbound missions promoting KwaZulu-Natal as a premier investment destination.
  • Inward and Outward Investment Promotion Missions
 
    • Hosting and co-ordinating inbound foreign and local business delegations and undertaking outbound missions promoting KwaZulu-Natal as a premier investment destination.
  • Project Profiling
 
    • Profiling local project-based investment opportunities through local and international exhibitions, seminars and conference.