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Accéntuate Takes to the floor
 
Posted: 10 May 2010
Investors have taken a liking to flooring and chemical cleaning products group Accéntuate.

Its numbers for the half year to end-December took some strain but were still respectable. Revenue dropped from R161m to R155,5m, while operating profit rose from R15,3m to R17,1m.

Sustainable floor care solutions
 
Posted: 19 Apr 2010
As a leader in the chemical manufacturing industry, Safic is faced with a critical challenge to ensure that clients are provided with solutions that address specific needs, while fulfilling environmental requirements. This has become increasingly important in all segments of construction, but certainly key in the overall supply and maintenance of flooring material.
With this aim in mind, Safic, through continual innovation and in forming strategic supplier partnerships, has tackled these pressing issues.

Resilient flooring still gaining market share
 
Posted: 19 Apr 2010
The resilient flooring market has significantly increased its share of the domestic floor covering industry throughout the world, due to growing commercial market demand, successful introduction and acceptance of product innovations such as luxury vinyl flooring, and consumer’s growing preference for low-cost, hard-surface flooring as the housing market weakened and the economy contracted.

Protect and preserve for future generations
 
Posted: 19 Apr 2010
FloorworX is aware of the fact that it has to comply with green processes and is therefore continually investigating and testing the viablity of new manufacturing methods to decrease the impact on the country's resources.

Carpts added to sales progamme
 
Posted: 19 Apr 2010
FloorworX is in th process of adding another superb floorcovering to its already extensive range of flooring options for specifiers,designers, developers and property owners - with the addition of Flotex flocked flooring from Forbo in both sheet and tile form.

Accéntuate expects growth
 
Posted: 26 Feb 2010
Accéntuate is confident it will maintain its growth record thanks to proposed government infrastructure spending.

Accéntuate herstel
 
Posted: 26 Feb 2010
Accéntuate, wat fokus op die afronding van groot geboue en ander infrastruktuurprojekte, het in die ses maane tot 31 Desember herstel.

Accéntuate urges state to pay companies promptly
 
Posted: 26 Feb 2010
The government should implement an effective mechanism for paying small contractors, a move that could help it to meet its service delivery obligations, Fred Platt CEO of infrastructure and construction focused company Accéntuate, said yesterday.

Combined expertise results in pristine floors
 
Posted: 21 Oct 2009
A unique combination of two leading companies in their respective fields - FloorworX and South African Fine & Industrial Chemicals (SAFIC) - is providing outstanding service to their clients, and ensuring that floorcoverings are properly and effectively cleaned and maintained throughout their lifecycle.

Accéntuate herstel onder druk
 
Posted: 10 Sep 2009
Accéntuate se vloerbedekking het van Julie to Desember verlede jaar verkoop soos nog nooit tevore nie.

Accéntuate earnings halved by margins squeeze
 
Posted: 10 Sep 2009
Flooring, chemicals, glass and aluminium construction company Accéntuate yesterday posted a 53% drop in headline earnings to 9.30c for the year to June due to an unbudgeted slower increase in energy costs and demand for its flooring products.

Accéntuate profit shrinks as costs rise and margins decline
 
Posted: 9 Sep 2009
JSE-listed flooring, chemicals and glass and aluminium construction company, Accéntuate on Wednesday reported that its turnover had increased by nearly 16% in the financial year ended JUne 2009, but after-tax profit and headline earnings dropped sharply.

Accéntuate sees good year if govt spending continues as planned
 
Posted: 4 Jun 2009
Infrastructure-focused Accéntuate would be facing some significant challenges going forward, if goverment's infrastructure spending plan did not continue, an executive said on Thursday.

State spending the key
 
Posted: 27 May 2009
Resumption of R800bn infrastructure programme awaited, writes David Jackson

Quarterly Update: Jan-Mar 2009
 
Posted: 19 May 2009
Following a strong showing of revenue and profitability in the interim results for the six months ended December 2008, demand for the products and services offered by Accentuate remained buoyant during the third quarter ..... read the remainder of our first quarterly update.

Revolutionising floor care
 
Posted: 20 Apr 2009
As manufacturer of industrial chemicals since 1981, Safic is the first chemical company in Africa that has been audited by Swiss Cert and SABS to be certified as an ISO 9001:2000, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001. Safic is also a member of the CAIA.

Previous eye-sore becomes visual marvel
 
Posted: 25 Mar 2009
Centurion Glass and Aluminium undertook the manufacture and installation of the combined products to accomplish what is the most pivotal aspect of the building's transformation.

Profits on the vinyl frontier
 
Posted: 6 Mar 2009
Laying floors and maing chemical cleaning products is not glamorous, but is proving to be profitable for Accéntuate

Accéntuate vaar goed in sy 'ergste jaar nog'
 
Posted: 26 Feb 2009
Die infrastruktuurgroep Accéntuate het in "die moelikste handelsomstandighede nog" sy omset opgestoot en sy stiefkind se minus in 'n plus omskep.

Accéntuate defies market
 
Posted: 26 Feb 2009
ALTX-listed company Accéntuate yesterday posted a 14% increase in headline earnings for the six months to December, despite what the company said were difficult trading conditions.