Bidvest Namibia is a

business group A corporate group, company group or business group, also formally known as a group of companies, is a collection of parent and subsidiary corporations that function as a single economic entity through a common source of control. These types of gr ...

based in

Windhoek Windhoek (; ; ) is the capital and largest city of Namibia. It is located in central Namibia in the Khomas Highland plateau area, at around above sea level, almost exactly at the country's geographical centre. The population of Windhoek, which ...

Namibia Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country on the west coast of Southern Africa. Its borders include the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south; in the no ...

. In 1989 under the name Crown National Namibia (Proprietary) Limited Established since 2009 is a fully independent company. The

initial public offering An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also to retail (individual) investors. An IPO is typically underwritten by one or more investm ...

took place on 26 Namibia October 2009. Originally it was part of the South African

Bidvest Group Bidvest Group is a South African services, trading, and distribution company that owns a diverse set of businesses. History Bidvest was founded in 1988 by Brian Joffe and listed on the JSE Limited, Johannesburg Stock Exchange in 1990. The Bidv ...

. It is a broadly held volume of 600 million

Namibian dollar The Namibia dollar (currency symbol, symbol: $ or N$; ISO 4217, code: NAD) has been the currency of Namibia since 1993. It is normally abbreviated with the dollar sign ($), or alternatively N$ to distinguish it from other currencies called “d ...

s, the third largest company on

Namibian Stock Exchange The Namibia Securities Exchange (NSX) (; ) is the only stock exchange in Namibia. Based in Windhoek, it is one of the largest stock exchanges on the African continent. It has a partnership with JSE in neighbouring South Africa. The NSX is only ...

Bidvest Namibia is divided into 2 sectors. BidCom and BidFish. BidCom covers the commercial side of Bidvest in Namibia, while BidFish covers all the

fishing Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish. Fish are often caught as wildlife from the natural environment (Freshwater ecosystem, freshwater or Marine ecosystem, marine), but may also be caught from Fish stocking, stocked Body of water, ...

and

fish processing The term fish processing refers to the processes associated with fish and fish products between the time fish are caught or harvested, and the time the final product is delivered to the customer. Although the term refers specifically to fish, in ...

, namely Namsov Namibia and United Fishing Enterprises.{{cite web , url=http://www.bidvest.com/div_info_bidvest_namibia.html , title=Bidvest Namibia , publisher=Bidvest.com , date= , accessdate=2016-09-30 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160805032402/http://www.bidvest.com/div_info_bidvest_namibia.html , archive-date=2016-08-05 , url-status=dead

References

Companies of Namibia Companies based in Windhoek Companies listed on the Namibian Stock Exchange