Who We Are
We are one of the leading loan providers for viable SMEs in the world.
Since 1981, business owners have trusted us to unlock business value in over 71 000 business finance transactions. We’ve approved finance to the tune of R20 billion+ to established entrepreneurs. The Global SME Finance Awards named us the 2019 Gold winner in the SME Bank of the Year – Africa.
What We Do
1. Business Finance
We provide finance ranging from R500 000 to R50 million to established entrepreneurs with a viable formal business. We tailor our finance to meet your business’s unique needs and negotiate pricing and repayment terms with you. We assess your business for viability and engage with you to understand your business’s potential. We don’t just look at security as demonstrated by your financials.
What We Do
2. Property Finance
We’re one of a handful of financiers who provide business owners with up to 100% in commercial property finance. Our property finance caters to established entrepreneurs with a viable business who want to refinance or purchase their own premises, as well as established entrepreneurs looking to add a property component to their investment portfolio.
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3. Property Joint Venture Fund
With 40 years of experience in acquiring and managing properties, we are proud of what we offer to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and Property Equity Partnerships (co-ownerships). Our portfolio boasts over 160 buildings across South Africa and is represented by the full spectrum of industrial, retail and commercial offerings specifically designed to benefit the SME.
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4. Mentorship and Technical Assistance
Our Mentorship Support Services and Technical Assistance harness the business expertise, skills and wisdom of senior business and professional people – often retired executives, making their services available to entrepreneurs in small and medium enterprises (SMEs), at a fee commensurate with the complexity of the entrepreneur’s business development needs.
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What Our Clients Say
Motlhabane Abnar Tsebe
MAT Group
Industry: Transport and storage services
“I want to encourage my fellow business operators that if you walk fast, walk alone. If you want to walk far into the future, then hold hands, like I’m holding hands with Business Partners Ltd to grow this business to the upper level.” Motlhabane received finance and technical assistance from our SECO (Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs) supported programme.
Ratau Mphahlele
Baroka Funerals
Industry: Funeral services, Financial and insurance activities
“The support and services that I’ve received from Business Partners, is when we bought this property in town our head office… we really needed somebody to finance it. We went to your traditional banks, and nothing happened and somebody advised me about Business Partners and they came to the party.”
DR Millicent Motsepe
MDM Orthodontics
Industry: Medical
“In the beginning when I started my business, it wasn’t especially when it came to finance because I had to finance my business from scratch, out of my own pocket as it is not easy for entrepreneurs to get funding from banks. Business Partners has impacted my business in a positive way in a sense that my mentor helps me to grow and brought in new ideas where I was lacking and they also helped me to buy the business premises that I’m using, of which now I have ownership of.”
