Full name: Treve Robert Hendry
Position: CEO of Argent Industrial Limited since 1999
Main activity of company: Manufacture of mild-steel and stainless-steel vehicle accessories; steel trading; manufacture of mild-steel and stainless-steel fireplaces and barbeques, ready-mixed concrete, steel fabrication and steel manipulation.
Date and place of birth: August 20, 1966, Cornwall, UK
Education: Treverton College, Kwazulu-Natal, 1984; B Com (Wits); B Compt (Unisa); CA (SA) 1992
First job: Auditing clerk, Ernst & Young, 1988
Size of first pay packet: Can’t remember
First job with present group: Accountant, Phoenix Steel Natal, 1995
Value of the assets under your control: R455-million
Number of people under your leadership: 1 216
Management style: Achieve, put it behind you and go to the next level
Personal best achievement: First US automotive order from Reliable Automotive, Kansas City, 2000
Professional best achievement: Argent’s current turnover of R600-million a year off real-time, on-going engineering business
Person who has had the biggest influence on your life: My father
Person who has had the biggest influence on my career: Stan Ferreira
Person who you would most like to meet: Cyril Ramaphosa
Businessperson who has impressed you the most: Cyril Ramaphosa
Philosophy of life: Work, work, work
Biggest ever opportunity: Buying Jetmaster
Biggest ever disappointment: None
Hope for the future: That skin colour becomes irrelevant
Favourite reading: Sky News
Favourite food and drink: Chicken and Castle
Favourite music: None
Favourite sport: Formula 1 motor racing
Favourite website: None
Hobbies: Work
Car: Land Rover
Pets: Two Labradors
Miscellaneous dislikes: Liars and people who are trying to score money
Favourite other South African company: Bidvest
Favourite foreign company: All the companies we thought were great have been a disappointment
Married: Clare Bull, November 9, 1997
Children: Rowan, 4; Shannon, 1
Clubs: None
Position: CEO of Argent Industrial Limited since 1999
Main activity of company: Manufacture of mild-steel and stainless-steel vehicle accessories; steel trading; manufacture of mild-steel and stainless-steel fireplaces and barbeques, ready-mixed concrete, steel fabrication and steel manipulation.
Date and place of birth: August 20, 1966, Cornwall, UK
Education: Treverton College, Kwazulu-Natal, 1984; B Com (Wits); B Compt (Unisa); CA (SA) 1992
First job: Auditing clerk, Ernst & Young, 1988
Size of first pay packet: Can’t remember
First job with present group: Accountant, Phoenix Steel Natal, 1995
Value of the assets under your control: R455-million
Number of people under your leadership: 1 216
Management style: Achieve, put it behind you and go to the next level
Personal best achievement: First US automotive order from Reliable Automotive, Kansas City, 2000
Professional best achievement: Argent’s current turnover of R600-million a year off real-time, on-going engineering business
Person who has had the biggest influence on your life: My father
Person who has had the biggest influence on my career: Stan Ferreira
Person who you would most like to meet: Cyril Ramaphosa
Businessperson who has impressed you the most: Cyril Ramaphosa
Philosophy of life: Work, work, work
Biggest ever opportunity: Buying Jetmaster
Biggest ever disappointment: None
Hope for the future: That skin colour becomes irrelevant
Favourite reading: Sky News
Favourite food and drink: Chicken and Castle
Favourite music: None
Favourite sport: Formula 1 motor racing
Favourite website: None
Hobbies: Work
Car: Land Rover
Pets: Two Labradors
Miscellaneous dislikes: Liars and people who are trying to score money
Favourite other South African company: Bidvest
Favourite foreign company: All the companies we thought were great have been a disappointment
Married: Clare Bull, November 9, 1997
Children: Rowan, 4; Shannon, 1
Clubs: None
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