“This is a great platform to get your business exposure, and to network with other top business people who could potentially be future customers.”
Zandile Keenbine
Top Women Judge
Topco Media — your partner in business excellence The right people,
The right people,
connected at the right time.
For over two decades Topco has made the introductions South African business runs on — brands to buyers, leaders to platforms, entrepreneurs to recognition. Seven flagship brands, one network.
We help you create the right message, using the right media, to the right audience.
About Topco
Topco Media was founded in Cape Town in 2004, building on Richard Fletcher's Orange Mountain Media — the community-advertising business that first brought local advertising to South Africa in the early 1990s. Today the group is led by CEO Ralf Fletcher, twenty-two years into the same brief.
The brands
7 hubs · one template
Gender equity in business Top Women
Empowering top women in Africa.
With Standard Bank Visit hub →
Transformation & B-BBEE Top Empowerment
The definitive platform for economic transformation in South Africa.
With Nedbank Visit hub →
Africa's leading companies Top 500
The annual guide to Africa's best-managed companies.
Visit hub →
Government & public service Public Sector Leaders
Empowering the public sector through media, events and partnerships.
Visit hub →
ESG & sustainability Future of Sustainability
Leading African solutions for global sustainability.
Visit hub →
Work & people strategy Future of HR
Change isn't coming. It's here.
Visit hub →
Law, governance & society The Future of Law
The future of law will shape the future of South Africa.
With LexisNexis Visit hub → Trusted by 
Business directory
367 profilesOne searchable dataset of company profiles drawn from the Top 500 listing and Top Women–recognised businesses — filterable by network list and sector.
What people say
“Events like Top Empowerment Conference are crucial around how to improve transformation.”
Busisiwe Sithole
Group Head: Transformation, Diversity & Inclusion, Absa Group
“ATW is an important event on the African events calendar as it shines the spotlight on Africa's growing tech ecosystem.”
Tanya van Lill
CEO, SAVCA
Migration, in five moves
brand by brand · never big-bangInventory
Every page, form and integration on every brand site, with a URL map.
Build shared system
One theme, tokens and content model on staging.
Pilot one brand
Migrate corporate + one brand end to end; QA the template.
Roll the rest
Remaining brands one at a time against the proven template.
Redirect & retire
301 every old URL, submit sitemaps, watch Search Console.
