Interview: Penta Business Solutions
January 19, 2010 by Tielman Nieuwoudt
Filed under Asia, Interviews
I recently spoke to Rasmus Buskov, Managing Director at Penta Business Solutions, a seasoned professional in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) industry in Vietnam.
TN: What is Penta Business Solutions?
RB: We are a team of experienced business consultants focused on providing affordable yet sophisticated open source ERP solutions, namely Openbravo, to businesses in Vietnam. One of [...]
Aquatabs – the Hybrid Social Distribution Model
November 13, 2009 by Tielman Nieuwoudt
Filed under Africa, Asia, Featured Articles, Interviews, Not-for-Profit, Social Responsibility
Aquatabs – the Hybrid Social Distribution Model
Last month I spoke to Michael Gately, Marketing Director of Medentech. The company is well known for its Aquatabs brand of rapidly dissolving tablets. It is one of the best known and most respected names in point-of-use water purification globally and is used to disinfect billions of litres of [...]
Vietnam’s intellectual property (IP) law
November 8, 2009 by Tielman Nieuwoudt
Filed under Asia, Interviews
I recently spoke to Patsy Day, an intellectual property attorney from Rouse Legal based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Rouse is a leading global intellectual property firm, with offices in more than twenty countries. Rouse has been handling IP cases in Vietnam since 1997.
TN: Which sectors are most infringed?
PD: The sectors where we see [...]
Holcim Vietnam
April 2, 2009 by Tielman Nieuwoudt
Filed under Interviews
I recently had a discussion with Jacques Van Niekerk, the Supply Chain Director of Holcim (Vietnam) Ltd., a leading producer of cement and ready-mix concrete.
TN: Can you give us an overview of your company in Vietnam?
JvN: Holcim (Vietnam) Ltd. is a leading producer of cement and ready-mix concrete. The company was registered in February 1994 [...]



