http://www.nextbillion.net/newsroom/2006/07/10/facing-global-challenges-while-turning-a-profit Comments for " Facing global challenges while turning a profit" en http://www.nextbillion.net/newsroom/2006/07/10/facing-global-challenges-while-turning-a-profit <div class="flexinode-body flexinode-4"><span class="flexinode-timestamp-13"> July 9, 2006 - 08:00, </span> <span class="flexinode-textfield-14"> The International Herald Tribune</span> <div class="flexinode-textfield-15"> Facing global challenges while turning a profit</div><br> <div class="form-item"> <label>Story Link:</label> <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/07/yourmoney/mthreat.php">http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/07/yourmoney/mthreat.php</a> </div> <div class="flexinode-textarea-6"> Excerpt: Eighteen months ago two veteran business executives, Brian Richardson and Charles Rowlinson, set up a cellphone-based banking company with the sole purpose of serving the estimated 16 million poor people in South Africa who do not have access to basic banking facilities - around 60 percent of the population.<br /> <br />Today Wizzit employs 800 previously unemployed &quot;Wizzkids&quot; to promote its product. The company is on target to break even this year.<br class="clear" /></div> </div> http://www.nextbillion.net/newsroom/2006/07/10/facing-global-challenges-while-turning-a-profit#comment Agriculture Consumer Products Energy Financial Services Water Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:49:45 -0500 Ethan Arpi 2991 at http://www.nextbillion.net