Automotive Business Review — February 2018

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or many decades, MINI has always stood for ideas,

inspiration and passion. It is in this spirit that MINI South

Africa and South African Fashion Week (SAFW) are joining

forces to bring the fashion talent search platform, MINI

Scouting Menswear in association with GQ Magazine. Previously

known as SAFW Scouting Menswear, the competition is now in

its fi fth year and runs in conjunction with the Spring/Summer 2018

collections.

“MINI has always been a brand for people who dare to do things

diff erently, to stand out,” says Thilosh Moodally, Head of MINI

South Africa. “In the 1960s, the fi rst Mini became a design icon.

Even today, driving a MINI is a statement of style and identity,

which is one reason why the brand has had a close connection with

the fashion world. With the MINI Scouting Menswear competition,

we want to support upcoming talent as well as celebrate new and

bold statements in South African men’s fashion.”

WHAT’S THE BUZZ

MINI, SAFW in Major Talent Hunt

MINI Scouting Menswear has become a major event in hunting out new talent in fashion design

T

op US publication The Wall Street Journal recently

published its inaugural Management Top 250 List,

recognising the most eff ectively managed large

companies in the US. Tenneco Inc. was ranked 232

on the list, tied with Alliance Data Systems, Sirius XM, and

Tyson Foods. The article also featured Tenneco on a separate

list of companies with the highest customer satisfaction scores.

Tenneco (TEN) is an $8.6-billion global manufacturing company

with headquarters in Lake Forest, Illinois and approximately

31 000 employees worldwide. Tenneco is one of the world’s

largest designers, manufacturers and marketers of clean air

and ride performance products and systems for automotive

and commercial vehicle original equipment players and the

aftermarket. Tenneco’s principal brand names are Monroe,

Walker, XNOx and Clevite Elastomer.

The Management Top 250 represents the highest scorers from

a larger list of more than 600 companies based in the US, or

with signifi cant US operations.

Partnering with the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate

University, the journal’s rankings are based on a statistical

model that uses a new methodology designed to produce a

more holistic measure of management eff ectiveness, based on

the principles of the Institute’s founder, Peter Drucker.

Tenneco gets

WSJ Ranking in US

Global manufacturer also scores with high customer satisfaction

MINI Scouting Menswear is open to fashion designers who have

been in business for no more than 10 years and who are working

towards establishing their brands within the South African fashion

industry. To qualify, designers must have a formal fashion design

qualifi cation or fi ve years fashion design experience.

The winner of the MINI Scouting Menswear will be given the

opportunity to showcase their collection at the 2018 SAFW Spring/

Summer collection and the 2019 SAFW Autumn/Winter collection

(scheduled for October 2018) as well as an all-expenses paid trip

to Pitti Immagine Uomo in Florence, Italy. To enter, contestants

can visit:

http://www.safashionweek.co.za/category/

competitions/safw-menswear-competition/

Entries for the MINI Scouting Menswear

close on February 9.