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employment thumb100 Business Report writes that integrated facilities management firm Servest is confident it can double its workforce of 4,500 in Cape Town within the next three years.  This was indicated by CE Steve Wallbanks on Tuesday at the launch of the firm’s new head office in Ndabeni, Cape Town.  

Servest chose to open its new offices in Ndabeni as part of the Pinelands Development corridor and believes the new office development will assist in making the area safer and stimulate local economic development by creating jobs.  All the fittings and fixtures for the new building were completed by local small, medium and micro enterprises and craftsmen.  The firm employs more than 50,000 people around the world, about 25,000 in SA and another 25,000 mainly in the UK and 11 countries in Africa.  Alex Berndl, Servest’s newly appointed director for coastal regions, said the firm had noticed within the business environment and within its own organisation a shift with a lot of new businesses moving to Cape Town, as a destination of choice.


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