-Duduzile Thabede

Duduzile Thabede is a marketing professional with many years experience in the
corporate world. For the last five years, Duduzile has been running her own highly
successful marketing and communications strategy development company servicing a
number of blue-chip South African companies. Offering a personalized and original
service to her clients, Duduzile is in a position to leverage her knowledge of developing
markets to form strategic alliances with Canadian business.

Sector:
Specialist Marketing, Advertising and
Branding Consultancy

Services:

• Marketing and communications strategies
• Brand and corporate identity development
• Brand positioning development
• Copywriting • Graphic Design
• Advertising and promotions
• Product launches
• Promotional gifts

Highlights:
• Unique understanding of developing
markets
• Unique proprietary tools for developing
brand strategy
• Diverse industry experience
• Holistic and multifaceted advertising and
communications solutions
• Full service delivery through strategic
partners

Objectives for mission:

1. Collaboration with Canadian companies
willing to outsource elements of their marketing
function offshore

2. Seeking strategic partnerships with
Canadian companies/consultants in the same
sector for a mutual exchange of information
and skills and collaboration on new or current
projects

Sector experience:
Varied and extensive, including FMCG,
financial services, employee benefits,
publishing, mobile/cell phone market,
petroleum products.

Clients:
First National Bank, SABS, Sony Ericsson,
Eskom Enterprises, NBC, SASRIA,
Commonwealth Business Council, Folio
Holdings (Nigeria), Sizwe Medical Fund,
ABSA, Mafube Publishing, Masana Petroleum
Solutions

Association:
Association of Marketing Professionals
(Malawi), Institute of People Management
(Malawi), The Women's Club - (Malawi)
Licentiate Member of the Institute of Personnel
and Development (UK)

"Brandsmart offers a lot of creativity as attested by
the company profile they developed, which is
currently helping us in articulating our story and
what we are all about."
S. Mncuango, Masana Petroleum Solutions