“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.
- A headline sponsor → 3,000 women-led businesses, in one room.
- A first-time exhibitor → 40 procurement leads in an afternoon.
- A chief executive's story → 60,000 Top 500 readers.
- A municipality → the private-sector partners it needs.
- A climate financier → the projects that are ready to build.
- A people leader → the playbook everyone else is writing.
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 templateTop Women
Empowering top women in Africa.
With Standard Bank Visit hub →Top Empowerment
The definitive platform for economic transformation in South Africa.
With Nedbank Visit hub →Top 500
The annual guide to Africa's best-managed companies.
Visit hub →Public Sector Leaders
Empowering the public sector through media, events and partnerships.
Visit hub →Future of Sustainability
Leading African solutions for global sustainability.
Visit hub →Future of HR
Change isn't coming. It's here.
Visit hub →The Future of Law
Where South Africa's legal profession meets what's next.
With LexisNexis Visit hub → Trusted by
Standard BankNedbankGoogleMetaUberBMWCanonKia
Business directory
39 profilesOne searchable dataset of company profiles drawn from the Top 500 listing and Top Women–recognised businesses — filterable by network list and sector.
Latest insights
from across the networkWhat 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
Platforms stay separate
Topco CRM
Sales pipeline, research desk and awards judging
crm.topco.co.za
Research Hub
Company and sector intelligence
research.topco.co.za
Marketing Ads Dashboard
Cross-channel campaign performance
marketingads.topco.co.za
Conference App
On-site agenda, tickets and networking
installable PWA
Awards Judging
Scoring portal for independent adjudicators
judging.topco.co.za
These are applications, not marketing pages. They keep their own stacks and URLs, appear in the main navigation under “Platforms”, and share one login. Folding them into the CMS would buy nothing.
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.
