ABS Expands its Operations in Africa
Johannesburg, South Africa, July 24, 2014--ABS has expanded its presence in Johannesburg, South Africa and formed a new Sales liaison office to support its growing business in the Africa continent.
This new office will house the sales and technical members of the Africa team, which will work alongside the regional Middle East office based in Dubai. ABS Africa will be responsible for business development, local sales liaison services and customer support throughout this region, according to the company.
“Expanding our presence in Africa enables us to develop closer relationships with our customers and engineering teams, ensuring we deliver faster local service and support in helping customers to optimize their growth and successes,” said Tom Choi, CEO of ABS. “With the launch of ABS-3A satellite at the end of this year/early 2015, we will provide additional capacity to serve this dynamic growing market,” he added.
Headquartered in Bermuda, ABS has offices in the United States, Dubai, South Africa, Germany, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong. ABS is majority owned by funds managed by the European Private Equity firm Permira. The Permira funds acquired ABS in 2010.
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