Founder, CEO of Bidvest Brian Joffe to step down

Bidvest founder and CEO Brian Joffe will step down after a deal to spin off and separately list the industrial conglomerate’s food business goes through.

Quizzing Brian Joffe: Has SA’s great capital allocator boobed on Adcock?

At Bob Miles’s annual Omaha Value Investor’s Conference preceding the Berkshire AGM, one of the presenters offered a list of the world’s great capital allocators. Warren Buffett, of course, was among them. So, too, John Malone of Liberty Media and the late Henry Singleton of Teledyne. But also on the short list was a name … Read more

Naryshkine: Happily invested in Brian Joffe, “The Magician of Melrose Arch”

With a market cap approaching R100bn and sales close to R200bn, financial results from Brian Joffe’s Bidvest are always something of an event among Johannesburg’s investment professionals. Sasha Naryshkine among them. In this interview Naryshkine explains why he’s such a big fan of the man his Vestact colleague Paul Theron has dubbed “The Magician of … Read more