On July 2008, Gonzalo started to work with three craft companies in South Africa; Streetwires (www.streetwires.co.za), Kunye (www.kunye.org), and Mielie (www.mielie.com). During his assignment, he has been helping these companies on different issues related to the business and marketing. He helped the owners and managers of these companies to draft their Marketing Strategy Plan that helped the companies to focus their businesses on the markets needs identifying their strengths and weakness.

Gonzalo Aramayo, is a Bolivian that joined MBA’s Without Borders to help three art craft companies in Cape Town, South Africa. He hopes that his knowledge in marketing, product development, and ICT’s, his previous experience in Development projects, his ability to laugh and his passion to teach will be useful for the assignment starting in July. Gonzalo will be working as a Business Development Associate for Streetwires, Mielie and Kunye in Capetown, South Africa, supporting the organizations in developing a marketing and sales strategy, information and knowledge systems, cost and price analysis, as well as improving the operations efficiency of the South African art-craft work.

Mielie is a handcraft business, based at the Montebello Design Centre in Newlands, Cape Town. Mielie is Afrikaans for corn, the staple diet of most South Africans, and probably the first item on most of the weaver’s shopping list. Mielie was started by Adri Schütz (owner and designer) in June 2002, working with a [...]