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High-performing businesses that produce consistent return on equity, because they have been built to do so. We call these Transcendent Businesses.
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Lifting an ambitious business to a new level of performance and impact.
Reigniting a business with fresh purpose and energy.
Harmonising rapid growth with sustainable structure and stability.
Guiding a fundamental shift toward a more viable and inspiring path.
Integrating complementary strengths to create a unified, more powerful entity.
Strategically refining focus to build a stronger, more resilient core.
Lifting an ambitious business to a new level of performance and impact.
Reigniting a business with fresh purpose and energy.
Harmonising rapid growth with sustainable structure and stability.
Guiding a fundamental shift toward a more viable and inspiring path.
Integrating complementary strengths to create a unified, more powerful entity.
Strategically refining focus to build a stronger, more resilient core.
Most businesses that hit a growth ceiling try to fix it Downstream: more revenue, more systems, more pressure. The ones that make the turn start somewhere else.
When we met CEO Hendri Truter in 2020, Deli-Co was a family business that had begun on a kitchen table in Riebeek Kasteel in 1993, and was about to invest in a major new facility in the middle of COVID. It was growing faster than the way it was being led.
So we started Upstream, with the clarity, trust and energy in the room. Together we found a shared language, formalised roles and built an executive team that could disagree well. Hendri made the shift from running the business to leading it.
The Downstream followed. Today Deli-Co employs more than 700 people.
Profit matters. But it isn’t the whole picture. Here’s Deli-Co’s turn, told by the people who made it.
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