1. Introduction

Mulelu Business Enterprises (MBE), Reg. No: 2001/086120/23 trading as ITAGE CONSULTING is a black youth owned Enterprise established in Limpopo Province in Louis Trichardt and Evander in Mpumalanga Province. We service a wide range of clients in various aspects of training, research and project management services.  The company presently has a 100% black youth power as Directors and Owners. The company takes pride in being characterized as based towards action and community and capacity building established late in 2001. The founder member of the Enterprise is Rodney Mulelu.

2.  Services Offered

ITAGE CONSULTING is an enterprise based in Evander in Mpumalanga Province and in Evander in Mpumalanga Province specializing in Transportation, Courier Services, Training, Research and Project management services.  The company renders the following services to the community.  Thus:

2.1. Ancillary Health Care Programme
• Life Skills
• Business Skills
• Community health Promotion
• Primary Health Care
• Disaster Management
• First Aid
• Occupational Health and Safety
• Health and Human Rights related services
• Home Based Care, Caring for the Aged, Orphans and those with disabilities

2.2. HIV/AIDS AND SEXUALITY
2.3. COUNSELLING SKILLS PROGRAM
2.4. CONDUCTING HIV/AIDS SURVEYS AND RESEARCH
2.5. PROJECT MANAGEMENT SERVICES/CONSULTING SERVICES
2.6. RECOGNITION OF PRIOR LEARNING SERVICES
2.7. EMPLOYEE WELLNESS PROGRAMME
2.8. SECURITY SERVICES ANDTRAINING
2.9. TRANSPORT AND COURIER SERVICES

3. Main Objectives

3.1. Training and Research

• Provision of NQF level 1 (Ancillary Health Care)
• Provision of Employees Assistance Programme
• Providing workplace services such as external Skills Development Facilitation and Provision of Voluntary, Counseling and testing • Provision of Life Skills and HIV/AIDS information programmes to the youth
• Provision of Therapeutic Counseling
• Provision of HIV and AIDS research and surveys
• Provision of Peer group training programmes
• Provision of HIV and AIDS management, such as PMTCT, PEP, STI, TB, VCT, Palliative care, HTA, Adherence counseling and • HIV management for the doctors and Nurses
• Provision of NQF level 3 (General security practices) and other protection services to the private and public entities.
• Transportation and Courier services

3.2. Employment

The business is declined to create at least 100 permanent job opportunities in no longer than 2 years ending 28 February 2009.  Currently the business has employees, 11 permanent and 10 temporary or contracted officials.  We contract fleet of vehicles, assessors, researchers, project managers and facilities if needs be. We strive to produce masterpieces in every job that we do in terms of quality and durability. Approval of the job done from our clients is an important part of our business mission.

It is our business culture to employ labor intensive techniques to our best abilities.  We also strive to use local people wherever possible and if the necessary skills could not be found with the local community, possibilities are examined to train them or employ skills from other previously disadvantaged communities.

4.  Mission

ITAGE CONSULTING help communities to participate effectively in transportation, capacity, Surveys, project management and training processes in order to realized sustainable and an improved sustainability capacity to communities. We Endeavour to provide the best custom designed training and capacity to both the public and corporate sector.

5. Vision

ITAGE CONSULTING is the Training and consulting Services Enterprise to make it in the Training of communities and corporate world. The company is working towards providing employment opportunities for the previously disadvantaged individuals.

6. Specialization
Personnel are immensely experienced in all types of capacity, Research, Project Management and training Services mentioned
above. We hire experienced facilitators, Researchers and project managers for all our workshops and projects.  The management is well equipped with great knowledge and has an extensive experience in Research, project management and training.

7. Why should you select us

ITAGE CONSULTING believes, we have necessary knowledge, skills, equipment, and motivation to be of service in the industry. We also feel proud to reveal that 100% of the business ownership and workforce are from historically disadvantaged community, women as shareholders and members of the board which are able and zest to make the difference. We do not consider our states as hindrance, but a challenge to show the world that previously disadvantage individuals can perform on an equal footing with other communities.

8.  Strategy
The strategy of ITAGE CONSULTING is to consolidate its good customer and client service by making timely deliverables, hiring the best project managers, facilitators and researchers and having a competitive pricing structure. The company's goal in the next 2 years is to become an independently-run business entity without having any contracted services. We would like to fully manage our consulting and courier operations, from hiring fleet, project managers, facilitators, assessors and moderators to sourcing business. The company's goal within the next five years is to operate a full-service consulting business. ITAGE CONSULTING would like to be in a position to handle any job available at this stage.
Key components of our initial strategy can be summarized as follows:

Expand on Human Resources.
The company is currently working to expand on its existing human resources especially, project managers, facilitators and Researchers. This will enable us to increase the number of customers we are able to serve.

Establish independent status.
The company is currently operating under fee sharing, but is working to become independent and manage its own operations, from sourcing to daily management
.
Establish a complete training and consulting business. The company is currently working toward becoming a complete training and consulting business with project managers, assessors, moderators, facilitators and researchers employed full time by the company. The management of the company has identified a good customer base which it can tap into once all the necessary resources and equipments have been acquired. This will enable the company to service areas outside its current domain and increase profit levels.

8.1. Value Propositions
ITAGE CONSULTING offers the following advantages to customers.
Quality Service. We provide our customers with courteous, prompt, and dependable service. The company has a reputation for timely deliverables and the best facilitators and project managers in the industry, and intends to build upon that.
Competitive rates. We will provide competitive rates for our customers because we have low cost inputs.

8.2. Marketing Strategy
We market our services as solutions to the many companies, public departments and individual people requiring consultants for training or a project to be conducted promptly and efficiently. The company's future marketing plans will be nationwide, emphasizing consulting capabilities for any project or workshop. The overall marketing plan for services is based on the following fundamentals:
The segment of the market(s) planned to reach.
Distribution channels planned to reach market segments: television, radio, sales associates, and mailings.
Share of the market expected to capture over a fixed period of time.