About: Brand Pretorius | Expert Business Leadership
Brand Pretorius – Business Leadership joined South Africa’s largest motor retail group, McCarthy Motor Holdings, as Chief Executive, in 1995. In October 1999, he was promoted to the position of Chief Executive Officer at McCarthy Limited, the holding company of McCarthy Motor Holdings.
In 1995, Brand joined South Africa’s largest motor retail group, McCarthy Motor Holdings, as Chief Executive.
In October 1999, he was promoted to the position of Chief Executive Officer at McCarthy Limited, the holding company of McCarthy Motor Holdings.
It is widely acknowledged that Brand played a pivotal role in saving McCarthy from bankruptcy. Due to massive bad debt write-offs in its Prefcor division, the group was declared technically insolvent in February 2001.
Under Brand Pretorius leadership McCarthy was successfully recapitalized, restructured and restored to financial health, saving thousands of jobs.
Today, the group employs 7000 people, has an annual turnover in excess of R20 billion and it sells approximately 75 000 new and used cars annually.
Brand Pretorius – Business Leadership retired as CEO of McCarthy and as an executive director of Bidvest Group in early 2011.
Brand’s achievements:
Brand Pretorius received an honorary professorship in Business Management in May of 1991 by the University of the Free State and in again in May of 2001, by the University of Johannesburg.
He was appointed a Fellow at the Gordon Institute of Business Science in November 2007.
Brand is a member of the main board of the National Business Initiative, the Free Market Foundation, Business Against Crime, the READ Educational Trust Board of Trustees, the advisory board of the University of Stellenbosch Business School and is the immediate past president of the South African Retail Motor Industry Organization.
He served as President of the South African Institute of Marketing Management from 1993 till 1996 as well as on the State President’s International Marketing Council during the period 2004- 2009, the last two years as vice-chairman.
Brand Pretorius was appointed as an ambassador of the SA Valued Citizens Initiative in May 2008, in November 2009 as a Visiting Executive at the Centre for Responsible Leadership at the University of Pretoria and in May 2011 as an ambassador of the National Values Campaign.
An Honorary Doctorate in Marketing was conferred on Brand Pretorius by the Durban University of Technology in April 2013.
Brand’s National Awards & Accolades:
Brand Pretorius first book, ‘In the Driving Seat – Lessons in Leadership’ was published earlier this year.
Professional speaking Topics :
The topics Brand has presented to local and international audiences include the following :
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