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Transnet to sponsor South African 2010 soccer World Cup bid
CAPE TOWN: After hosting a successful cricket World Cup earlier this year in March, South Africa is now trying to host the Football World Cup in 2010.
Its goal is gaining support from South African companies. Africa’s largest transport and logistics company Transnet has announced that it will sponsor the South Africa Football Association’s (SAFA) bid for the 2010 Soccer World Cup to the tune of R12m cash and some R4m in services. Besides Transnet, the other South African companies which are also official bid supporters include Anglo American, Vodacom, BMW and Telkom.
The event has never taken place in South Africa in the past. Like the Cricket World Cup, the country is looking at the Football World Cup as being important in both business and cultural terms. Transnet CEO Mafika Mkwanazi added that Transnet’s business units and subsidiaries would play a significant role in supporting the bid process by providing strategic transport and logistics services to supplement the cash sponsorship of R12m.
He was quoted in an official release saying, “Transnet’s sponsorship for the 2010 World Cup bid complements the extensive sport development programmes funded by the Transnet Foundation. These focus on rural development, providing infrastructure and facilities and sponsoring a series of events to advance the development of role models for the youth of our country.”
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Ember Cookware appoints Amit Singh as chief of supply chain
10-year veteran to lead operations as brand scales across D2C, quick commerce and retail.
MUMBAI: Ember just handed its supply chain the perfect seasoning because when your cookware is non-toxic and non-stick, the operations behind it better be fast and flawless. Ember Cookware has appointed Amit Singh as chief of supply chain and Services, bolstering its leadership team at a pivotal growth phase. Singh brings over a decade of experience in supply chain strategy, operations and large-scale network buildouts.
He began his career at Singapore-based retail giant Giant Hypermarket before joining Pharmeasy in 2015, where he played a foundational role in building and scaling its pan-India supply chain across B2B and B2C channels. At API Holdings, he later led supply chain operations for North India, managing end-to-end execution across complex, multi-city networks.
In his new role, Amit will oversee Ember’s complete supply chain and service ecosystem including sourcing, manufacturing coordination, logistics, last-mile delivery, post-purchase support and workforce development. His mandate focuses on building cost-efficient, resilient operations that shorten fulfilment times, strengthen inventory management and deliver a consistently high-quality consumer experience as the brand expands nationally.
Ember Cookware co-founder & CEO Siddharth Gadodia said, “Supply chain is where growth either holds or breaks. As we scale across channels and geographies, we need operations that are efficient, resilient, and built for speed, without ever compromising on the consumer experience. Amit has done this before, at real scale.”
Ember Cookware co-founder & CMO Himanshi Tandon added, “As we scale, supply chain efficiency becomes as important as product and brand. Amit’s mandate is to build the operational foundations that make our promise consistent at scale.”
Amit Singh commented, “Ember is building something genuinely different, a category-defining brand with a clear purpose and the ambition to match. I’m looking forward to building supply chain infrastructure that doesn’t just keep pace with growth, but enables it.”
The appointment forms part of Ember’s broader push to deepen leadership across key functions as it invests in its Innovation Lab, proprietary material technologies and operational backbone to support national expansion.
In a kitchenware world where non-stick promises are easy but delivery is hard, Ember isn’t just cooking up products, it’s cooking up an operation that keeps every promise sizzling from factory to fork.
