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BUSINESS NEWS - Like most business owners, Marie Jansen often jumps in and helps out with the operations when a worker fails to pitch up or when something goes wrong. However, there are few business owners who can boast of having sewn garments, manned the shop, packed and hauled fish, or sorted waste for recycling.

It is a mark of Marie's long and varied business career that she can also help fix a car, if need be, and organise the rapid expansion of her recycling business in two towns on the South Cape coast. 

As the owner of Masiqhame Trading, a recycling company in Plettenberg Bay, Marie is ready to take on any kind of opportunity, confident that she will master the industry by fully immersing herself in it.

Throughout her journey, Marie has had Business Partners Limited beside her, assisting with the financing of the two premises that she operates her recycling facility from. With their support, Marie's business has grown threefold from its humble beginnings on a single plot.

Today Marie has 31 employees and with a fleet of four vehicles and trailers, Masiqhame Trading handles the recycling for the Plettenberg Bay Municipality. The company has just won the contract for the recycling of the much larger adjacent town Knysna as one of two service providers.

Marie's business sends off up to 108 tons of waste per month for value-added recycling, with the Knysna contract set to double the size of her business.

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