ROB ROSE: What’s Tongaat CEO Gavin Hudson’s secret?
Unlike Steinhoff, EOH and the Kebble companies, Tongaat has sprung back from an existentially threatening fraud. What’s Gavin Hudson’s secret?
17 December 2020 - 05:00
What is this magic potion that Gavin Hudson, the CEO of sugar producer Tongaat Hulett, appears to have which no other scandal-ravaged company has access to?
How have Hudson and his finance director Rob Aitken been able to so rapidly steer Tongaat, a 128-year-old world industrial anachronism in a sugar-free era, out of an accounting crisis which is perhaps second only to Steinhoff in breadth and impact?..
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