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On the 24 August 2012 the Exporters Club of South Africa \u2013 Eastern Cape hosted their prestigious Exporter of the year banquet.<\/p>\n
440 guests were entertained by Amor Vittone, at the \u201cBRICS\u201d themed event hosted at Running Waters.<\/p>\n
Two new categories were introduced this year, being, the OEM award, and the SJM Flex Environment award, which was previously handed out at the business chamber banquet.<\/p>\n
The judges for the SJM Flex Environmental award were Dr Anton de Wit (NMMU<\/a>), Johnny Pitorino (SJM Flex), Phinda Xipula (SJM Flex), Sam Venter (NMBBC) and\u00a0 Quintin Levey (Exporters Club chairman).<\/p>\n The independent judges for the other awards were Zodwa Kepeye \u2013 ECDC, Steve Burgers \u2013 NMMU<\/a> Business School, Sam Venter \u2013 NMBBC, Lance Schultz \u2013 AIDC, Neil Mattheus \u2013 ABSA Capital and Quintin Levey (Exporters Club chairman).<\/p>\n The significant contributions by the sponsors made this event possible. ABSA were once again the Platinum sponsor of the event. The other sponsors for the event were Transnet National Port Authorities (gold), the Eastern Cape Development Corporation (gold) ,Tradepoint Nelson Mandela Bay (gold), Credit Guarantee (silver), Industrial Development Corporation (Silver) SJM Flex (Bronze) and KPMG (bronze). The Weekend Post<\/a> and Kingfisher FM<\/a> were the media sponsors.<\/p>\n The guest speaker on the night was Dirk van den Berg, of ABSA Capital.<\/p>\n The winners on the evening were:<\/strong><\/p>\n SJM Flex Environmental award<\/strong> \u2013 This is a new category this year for exporters who are ISO 14001 accredited and who pursue excellence in environmental management<\/p>\n