Phillip Niemann, Craig Hutchison, Simone Soltau
Celebrating our achievements - Licence Partner Conference and the Annual R&R 2015
The 2015 annual Rewards & Recognition function for Engel & Völkers Southern Africa was held in Cape Town in March 2015. Both events had a particularly impressive turnout of attendees from our offices around South Africa. At the R&R function, the excitement and anticipation of the respective winners of the various categories, was palpable.
Phillip Nieman (Managing Director of Engel & Völkers International) and Simone Soltau (Country Manager for E&V Southern Africa) from the E&V AG head office in Hamburg, Germany, also attended both the Rewards & Recognition function as well as the Licence Partner Conference with all our licence partners.
The Licence Partner Conference was an opportunity for all the existing licence partners around South Africa to network and welcome the number of new licence partners to the fold. As usual, this conference was an opportunity for Craig Hutchison, CEO Engel & Völkers Southern Africa to share the highlights of the past year, the increase in sales, top performances of specific shops and individuals, and to thank and congratulate all the licensees on a very successful year. With Engel & Völkers Southern Africa showing a 30% growth in registered sales over the last year in what is still in general quite a flat property market is quite a remarkable achievement, and the targets have been set to even better this in the coming year.
Craig Hutchison, Brian Chaplog, Riaan van Deventer
This management event is also the ideal platform to strategise, introduce and discuss the status of the property market and to map the future and anticipated growth of E&V in South Africa, especially with regards recruitment. The licensees are always encouraged to give their input which is invaluable and this contributes to policies such as planning for innovative new software, training and mentoring of our sales advisors, etc. All our principles and values are reinforced at these licence partner meetings.
As the theme for the R&R was strictly white with a touch of sparkle / bling, this ensured that the event was certain to be fun, light-hearted and custom made for easy conversation and enjoyment.
At the awards ceremony, Riaan van Deventer, Director of Engel & Völkers Southern Africa was particularly appreciative and proud as he thanked all the achievers for their dedication, hard work and commitment.
Many new friendships were made and rekindled and the inevitable networking was sincere and of great value.
The winners per category were:
Agent of the year: Eastern Cape
Brett & Mandy Grant, Port Elizabeth
Agent of the year: Garden Route
Elmari Stander, George
Agent of the year: Gauteng
Cristina Rosa, Waterkloof
Agent of the year: KZN
Jana Vorster, Ballito
Agent of the year: Limpopo & Mpumalanga
Charla du Plessis, Projects
Agent of the year: North West
Theo Volschenk, Potchefstroom
Agent of the year: Western Cape
Jackie de Waal, Kalkbay
Agent of the year: National
Theo Volschenk, Potchefstroom
Bond Origination - Support by Individual Agents
Cherise Ansara, Broadacres
Brand Ambassador
Carl Venter, Potchefstroom
CI Shop of the year
LIPA of the year
Carl Venter, Potchefstroom
Most Exclusive mandates
Francis Case, Simon's Town
Most Listings in 12 months
Theo Volschenk, Potchefstroom
Most Showhouses
Sanet Dicks, Potchefstroom
Rookie agent of the year
Etienne Durandt, Bryanston
Team Assistant of the year
Samantha Theron, Umhlanga
Team Leader of the year
Beatrice Joubert, Potchefstroom
Unit Sales (Existing properties)
Theo Volschenk, Potchefstroom
Unit Sales (New Developments)
Charla du Plessis, Projects
For photographs of both events, please click on the links below: