News from CEOCO

Sunflower Facts #7

The stem of a sunflower can grow up to 3 m (10 ft) tall and the flower head can be 30 cm (11.8 in) wide with as many as 2000 seeds to a single flower.

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Sustainable Crops

The careful preparation of clay-rich soils in Limpopo has enabled farmers to cultivate sunflowers without irrigation for the production of edible oil, enabling the sustainable growth of this crop in a water-scarce province, says global consumer goods company Unilever South Africa commodities procurement manager Ashton Eastman.

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Sunflower Facts #12

Sunflowers can be used to extract toxin such as lead, arsenic and uranium from contaminated soil. For example, sunflowers were used to remove toxins from a pond after the Chernobyl disaster and similar projects took place after the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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CEOCO Hosting Vip Visitors

On the 16th of March 2015 CEOCO was privileged to host two VIP visitors from Unilever. Mr. Ashish Gupta the Procurement Manager - Commodities - Africa and Mr. Mbuso Mbuso Assistant Procurement manager - Commodities - Africa.

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Newly Appointed Emergency Co-ordinator

It is with great pride to see the progress made in not only having emergency equipment but also in our emergency teams and emergency co-ordinators whom has been trained and whom effectively can manage an evacuation drill. It is also heart warming to see employees taking their responsibilities and roles seriously and here Joggie has to be singled out for his commitment.

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CEOCO Receives OHSAS 18001:2007 Confirmation

It is with great enthusiasm to announce that CEOCO (Pty) Ltd. has finally received confirmation of our OHSAS 18001:2007. CEOCO was audited on its health & safety management Programme in June 2014 and passed the audit and audit review by the technical committee of TUVRheinland. It is with great gratitude to all whom participated in succeeding in the certification that the management of CEOCO will be displaying the certificate. The challenge is now to continually improve on our achievement as a management team to keep the workplace safe and healthy for all our stakeholders.

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South African Records Shattered

Another South African record was shattered at the 2014 Windpompfees, which was held from 1-3 May 2014 in Naboomspruit.

The worsbraai was one of the main events on the Windpompfees 2014. With a total length of 1557.15 meters long (Yes, more than one and a half kilometers), the previous records of 370m in 2010,500m in 2011,630m in 2012,760.1 m in 2013 and 1305m set by ALL GOLD in October 2014 has been well and truly shattered. A requirement is that the boerewors should be a continuous sausage.

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2014 Comrades CEOCO staff makes us proud

CEOCO Management would like to congratulate Coenie Berowsky and Moses Motsai whom have run and completed the Comrades Marathon in 10:06 Hours and 11:56 Hours respectively. Well done to the both of you!

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