MB Technologies is Southern Africa’s leading black-owned IT distribution group. Its operating companies include Tarsus Technologies, A.C.T., Ingram Micro (South Africa), Printacom, ChannelWare and Channel Capital.

Established more than 20 years ago by Group Chairman Leo Baxter, with Tarsus as the founding company, the MB Technologies group has grown into the leading southern African distributor of most of the international first tier technology brands including Hewlett Packard, IBM, Lenovo, Acer, Samsung, OKI, Cisco, Phillips, Lexmark, 3com, Seagate and Kingston.

With Royal Bafokeng Holdings as the group’s primary shareholder, MB Technologies is one of the largest unlisted Black Empowered IT groups in the country and one of the most significant contributors to transformation in the IT market. The group’s strong focus on corporate social investment, black-empowerment and employment equity has seen all of its companies becoming partners of choice within their specific areas of business.

The group’s operating companies include Tarsus Technologies, South Africa’s largest IT distributor, niche market consumables distributor A.C.T., ChannelWare, Ingram Micro South Africa, a joint venture with the world’s largest IT component distributor, and Printacom, the sole brand representative and importer for OKI Printing Solutions.

MB Technologies’ primary focus is centred on distribution and the group’s involvement in numerous areas of IT over the past two decades has seen it garnering a deep understanding of the trends in the local IT market, as well as the challenges faced by technology resellers and their customers.

This knowledge has been integrated into a set of group-wide value added-services that address the needs of both the reseller channel and the larger IT market.

MB Technologies’ value-added services are as much focused on overcoming obstacles in the IT market as they are in acting as a catalyst for the market. The logistics solutions incentive schemes, training programmes, financing solutions and extremely focused product management strategies that have been implemented across the group have been recognised as some of the most innovative and forward thinking by market commentators and the local IT channel alike.