Michael Pretorius Email & Phone Number

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

**About Dr Concrete**Dr Concrete specializes in providing high-quality concrete repair products, cementitious coatings, and decorative flooring solutions. Our products cater to both small contractors looking to expand their expertise and larger construction companies seeking reliable and top-notch materials. **Our Expertise****Concrete Repair Products**.

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

We are now halfway through 2020.We’ve been lucky so far. Our focus on marketing remains big, and the result is a number of on-going projects as well as some stunning projects in the pipeline.During lockdown I doubled down to rebuild legacy systems that have been dragging along with the business over the last 20 years. I developed a huge streamlined.

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

In 2019 I sold a specialised flooring system for Edward Snell Bottling Plant as well as the new Flagship 92 Rivonia Mercedes Benz Showroom.These projects, combined with a number of other fantastic projects meant that the company again had a record year.It is also during this time that I formed a partnership to start CT Mining, a coatings supplier focussing.

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Increased R&D in technical protective coating solutions
• Increased investment in automation machinery and technology
• Intensified our online marketing drive as well as certain print publications
• Closed sales with iconic projects such as the Lillian Ngoyi Woman's Memorial Monument, The Market Theatre, numerous Mercedes Benz showrooms, art galleries, electricity sub stations, food processing plants and more

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Drive to automate our installation work through heavily investing in technology and specialised machinery
• Upskilled the labour force with the operation of the new machinery, thereby effectively streamlining our implementation work.
• My drive to empower employees through education and training saw huge growth in performance and enabled us to do larger projects with smaller teams while still delivering extremely high quality projects.
• Personally sold and oversaw Africa projects in Kenya and Tanzania.
• New clients included multinational corporation facilities such as Mercedes Benz, Nike, Kingsley Beverages and Hilton Hotels

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Changed company direction from serving mainly residential clients to serving industrial and commercial clients
• Merged the diversified devisions of Sandstone Creations, Painting Creations and Flooring Creations to fall under the Creative Touches Brand with one marketing focus and a multi-skilled team to do the implementation work.
• I changed CT INDUSTRIES into a holding company and started the CT Floors brand that focussed specifically on Industrial and Commercial Seamless Flooring Solutions
• Our residential work continued at a rate of at least two projects a month while I started closing sales with companies such as MTN, IS and Saint-Gobain

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Strategic focus on marketing our diversified offering ensured the survival of the company
• I intensified our marketing drive through online channels and other affordable media channels
• I deepened our drive to close sales and removed the bottom limit placed on the smallest size projects that we would be willing to take.
• My exceptional focus on supplier relations meant that the business was able to bring in business through supplier referrals based on their recognition of our ability to deliver quality work with their products.

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Establishing the CT INDUSTRIES Brand and identity
• Developing a diversified offering through the formation of three new divisions:
• Sandstone Creations
• Painting Creations, and
• Flooring Creations.These divisions were set up to market separately with separate implementation teams which enabled us to do focussed work while generating multiple streams of income.
• Developing quality control measures to ensure that all the teams could deliver to client expectations.

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Tasked with establishing the Creative Touches brand
• Developing systems to lead implementation teams in the Creative Touches offering
• Selling our new services to clients and leads obtained through trade shows
• Financial management of the small business
• Marketing and sales strategy.
• Team development

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

CT Floors is a flooring technology specialist.Our focus is on providing flooring solutions to the industrial and commercial property owner who needs fast turnaround times for their, or their tenants’ specific requirements.With high technology products and the use of specialised machinery and equipment, we are able to achieve major speeds in implementation.

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Serving the environment by ensuring clean water

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

CT Mining is a Hydrophobic coatings supplier serving the mining industry.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Gained Sales Experience by doing 5 trade shows a year
• Follow-up on leads obtained from trade shows in order to close sales
• Leading the installation team and ensuring quality control
• Invoicing and following up on payments
• Arranging inventory and logistics

Sct 42 Concrete Technology - Practical Applications, Concrete Technology, Ict Stage 3

Activities and Societies: British Institute of Concrete Technology Testing concrete Specification of concrete Quality control and mix.

Sct 41 Concrete Technology - General Principles, Concrete Technology, Ict Stage 2

Activities and Societies: British Institute of Concrete Technology Materials, including aggregates, cements, water, admixtures.

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