Bkb
Sales in Paarl

Throught the effective handling of wool, livestock and property, mohair, plus the provision of agri-products & services BKB provides an established infrastructure in support of your business. Our service, knowledge and vision, give you more than just a helping hand.

A commitment to traditional values and innovative agri solutions have over the years transformed BKB Limited into a household name and a fully-fledged company with shareholders. We offer a dedicated team of professionals and advisors across various levels of business, understanding what you need, when you need it. Whether for the production of Wool, Mohair, Livestock or Grain, BKB’s comprehensive services and skilled technical field advisors will ensure peace of mind every step of the way. Throughout the process, we also aim to provide an effective service through highly skilled and knowledgeable BKB Technical and Shearing advisors. BKB prides itself as a high performing organisation that puts its people first. We have sophisticated, best practice processes that act as enablers to all of our people, empowering each individual to grow within the organization. Through our on-going training programs, human resources policies and employee wellness practises, we have increased employee satisfaction and contained employee turnover. Shearers not only need to be trained in the skill of shearing, but also need to be physically conditioned, to be able to take the strain, especially on the back muscles. It takes at least a year to get pupils to a level of shearing, so that they can shear enough sheep to be able to earn a decent living wage. Special care are given to physical training and cooking skills. Training happens on a farm, and takes two weeks, after which a pupil will have a basic ability to shear without causing damage to a sheep. From this point on shearers are required to exercise their skills on farms up until the point where they will be able to shear at least 60 sheep per day. After the year period shearers will have the opportunity to become full time employees of the BKB shearing service where they will be deployed into shearing teams to operate nationally. Each team will have a vehicle to travel with from farm to farm, a fully-equipped caravan to cook and sleep in, as well as shearing equipment needed to provide a professional shearing service. It would most likely take three years to achieve this goal and training would need to include driving skills, basic management and finance skills, vehicle and caravan maintenance as well as entrepreneurial skills\. That the recruitment drive is not only underpinned by a general commitment to employment equity, but also with due cognizance of customer requirements, the nature of each position, and availability of candidates\. That we appoint based on the principle of future ability to do the job, given the correct training and motivation to do so. As employer, we are committed to equity in all employment practices\. Instilling an organisational culture that is conducive to Employment Equity, diversity and sustainable business. To retain, promote and develop employees from designated groups through focused and appropriate recruitment, retention and development initiatives. Capturing, approving and maintaining employees’ leave becomes a streamlined and paperless process. Our Graduate Training Programme serves as a source of employment equity appointments into permanent vacancies throughout our business and as a result we have managed to appoint ten black professionals onto junior-middle management level in the past twelve months. We are committed to maintaining our positive relationship with our employees. Our policies promote equitable human resource practices for greater inclusivity amongst all groups.