Cy Jacobs (36One) and Duncan Artus (Allan Gray) – two of South Africa’s most respected fund managers – once called Super Group CEO Peter Mountford the country’s most underrated CEO.
The Money Show’s Bruce Whitfield interviewed Mountford for his weekly “ShapeShifter” feature.
Mountford – a Chartered Accountant with an MBA from Warwick University - is famed for transforming Super Group (a transport logistics company) from a near-bankrupt, R350 million firm into a R10 billion behemoth in just six years (today it's worth R13 billion).
Listen to the interview in the audio below (and/or scroll down for quotes from it).
We drove well over R250 million of costs from the group.
— Peter Mountford, Super Group
I’m a Johannesburg boy through and through.
— Peter Mountford, Super Group
Much of what I learned; I learned there [SAB].
— Peter Mountford, Super Group
Lion Match was the world’s lowest cost match producer. We really thought that business had a lot of legs.
— Peter Mountford, Super Group
I also worked at Super Group in the 1990s… I had some concerns, but left on a good footing.
— Peter Mountford, Super Group
We had a plan, but there was an awful lot of luck.
— Peter Mountford, Super Group
The most critical thing in business is to treat it as though it is your own.
— Peter Mountford, Super Group
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