Issues impacting business and the Top 100 Survey

The Measure That Matters? Business Times Top 100: Is this the measure that matters? Yes!     or     No! Once you have voted, the latest poll results will be displayed automatically. Use your "back" button to return here. About the survey Leaders rise where many have stumbled The method behind the measure Royal status for a select group of achievers Success means getting richer, wiser but not bigger The Year: 1997 The year of wheeling and dealing Black empowerment deals boost merger activity to record levels Chaos in equity markets may slow the flood of new listings Global crash highlights some new home truths World’s top companies get richer, not bigger

The Market The more the merrier in a liquid market New exchange boss puts his money on the future Mutual funds in the money for a boom year Issues affecting SA business Jobs vanish with a wave of the Gear wand More foreign investment vital for SA to reach growth goals Black empowerment lags behind the sum of its parts Mbeki out of gear as ministers bicker and job creation stalls Business feels the chill as government wilts to labour Privatisation on hold pending government's full support Customs union's trade surplus looks healthy, but all's not well Not enough time for good behaviour Business as usual as SA's wheeler-dealers make their mark again South Africa rushes in where Europe fears to invest

Business Times Top 100 Companies 1997

Capital gain plus dividends reinvested into shares over five years as a compound return on original investment.

Rank   1 2(1) 3(13) 4 5(39) 6 7(3) 8 9(4) 10(2) 11(60) 12(6) 13 14(24) 15(44) 16(19) 17(30) 18 19 20(25) 21(18) 22(14) 23(42) 24(10) 25(5) 26(10) 27 28(70) 29(51) 30 31 32 33 34 35(8) 36(59) 37(36) 38(9) 39(35) 40(11) 41(13) 42(15) 43(20) 44(17) 45(26) 46(48) 47(49) 48 49(76) 50 51(43) 52 53(91) 54 55(57) 56 57(22) 58(53) 59 60 61 62(73) 63(95) 64 65(56) 66(31) 67 68(40) 69(46) 70(31) 71(98) 72 73(54) 74 75 76(50) 77(65) 78(74) 79 80(78) 81(81) 82 83 84(47) 85(77) 86 87(84) 88 89(79) 90 91 92 93 94 95 96(41) 97(89) 98(28) 99(58) 100

Company   NU-WORLD DIMENSION DATA United Services Technologies MORKELS BOARD OF EXECUTORS Lindum Reefs Gold Min Co Q DATA Barnato Exploration Western Areas Gold Min Co DUIKER MINING SAAMBOU Momentum Life Assurers Tweefontein United Collieries FIDELITY BANK COMMERCIAL FINANCE JD GROUP African Life Assurance Spescom Electronics BASIL READ RHOEX CONCOR INVESTEC INVICTA LTA IMPERIAL BIDVEST ORION SELECTIONS Griqualand Exploration & Fin ELLERINE Servgro Int JASCO ELECTRONICS Consolidated Frame Textiles C T P BOWLER METCALF BEARING MAN SHOPRITE METRO CASH & CARRY OZZ NEDCOR SANTAM SPECIALTY STORES PERSKOR Benguela Concessions METROPOLITAN LIFE FINTECH FEDSURE McCARTHY MACMED HEALTH CARE GRINAKER Control Instruments SAGE REX TRUEFORM WOOLTRU Ocean Diamond Mining Co TONGAAT-HULETT Free State Dev & Inv Commercial Union of SA ELECTRONICS MEDIA S M GOLDSTEIN GUARDIAN NATIONAL IBM S A GENBEL S A AECI CHEMICAL SERVICES SASOL Stellenbosch Farmers' Win VOLTEX S A EAGLE INS CO OMNIA Mutual & Federal Ins Co Seardel Inv Corp LASER TRANSPORT GROUP FIVE SMART GROUP ISCOR Oceana Fishing Grp Gold Fields Coal ABSA East Rand Gold & Uran Anglo American Coal DORBYL GOLD FIELDS PROP CO BRENNER MILLS SILTEK FIRST NATIONAL BANK Vogelstruisbult Metal Plate Glass & Shatterprf Trans Natal Coal Corp KWV BELEGGINGS AMALGAMATED RETAIL METAIR INVESTMENTS LION MATCH CO Anglo American Ind Corp INGWE COAL CORP BEATRIX MINES REUNERT SOUTHVAAL SPUR STEAK RANCHES Standard Bank Inv Corp Assoc Furniture Cos

Five Year Share Price Growth 50 - 2900 56 - 1950 60 - 1250 55 - 1080 800 - 15400 16 - 200 48 - 846 65 - 1250 230 - 3575 63 - 750 72 - 1030 50 - 680 1150 - 10350 460 - 5750 600 - 7500 300 - 3525 310 - 3400 65 - 720 35 - 425 45 - 530 320 - 2800 1750 - 17400 65 - 650 350 - 3100 650 - 6200 420 - 3800 108 - 960 27 - 72 450 - 3700 535 - 234 40 - 300 80 - 650 750 - 5800 18 - 130 40 - 260 120 - 914 66 - 465 450 - 3000 1575 - 10050 630 - 3700 60 - 390 245 - 1600 48 - 330 170 - 1030 1475 - 9000 925 - 5375 350 - 1940 65 - 404 350 - 950 20 - 116 460 - 2400 125 - 590 456 - 2560 125 - 725 1375 - 7025 60 - 330 780 - 3800 560 - 500 125 - 630 2950 - 12500 210 - 900 530 - 2310 580 - 2450 290 - 1260 1635 - 6425 220 - 900 70 - 274 3900 - 15000 430 - 1500 670 - 2660 56 - 194 95 - 410 180 - 720 335 - 1300 80 - 297 166 - 510 725 - 1870 975 - 3175 325 - 646 8500 - 27200 1700 - 5275 400 - 1040 85 - 230 675 - 2150 1200 - 3700 460 - 1190 4175 - 13000 880 - 2400 800 - 2100 469 - 1500 1300 - 3600 270 - 760 6200 - 17500 875 - 2210 885 - 2210 470 - 1375 4075 - 10300 460 - 1220 7250 - 20750 550 - 1400

Average annual compound return (%) 129.29 104.82 88.14 87.29 85.00 83.97 80.66 80.64 77.39 72.89 72.86 71.96 71.28 69.87 69.26 67.76 66.05 65.82 64.77 63.77 62.20 61.48 61.07 60.22 59.62 58.07 58.05 57.25 56.49 56.44 55.56 54.11 52.61 52.58 51.20 51.11 50.65 49.58 48.75 48.19 47.96 47.44 47.05 46.70 46.51 46.40 46.18 45.63 45.26 44.89 44.72 44.28 44.21 42.13 42.07 41.15 41.15 40.78 40.63 39.65 39.51 39.41 38.04 37.79 37.16 37.15 36.44 35.59 35.21 34.27 34.27 33.98 33.89 32.66 32.46 31.83 31.53 31.40 31.33 31.01 29.83 29.73 29.30 29.26 28.69 28.57 28.41 28.33 28.08 28.04 27.93 27.80 27.46 26.94 26.62 26.56 26.45 26.33 26.33 26.25

Source: I-Net