Focus
Urban-Econ has extensive experience in undertaking feasibility studies to assess the sustainability and viability of projects based on the interaction between market supply and demand. Feasibility analyses and the packaging of the results in business plan format are the basic requirements of financial institutions in their considerations for funding. As such, the following elements are prerequisites for project funding:
- It should be feasible.
- It should be sustainable
- It should be bankable
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Due to Urban-Econ’s understanding of the market economy, as well as extensive exposure to a wide variety of financial, development, private and government institutions, the firm has the appropriate insight to be able to customise the business plans to each institution’s specific requirements, yet still adhering to the basic feasibility indicators in that it relies on the market potential as determined through rigorous market analysis. The firm also investigates various funding options as an integral part of the feasibility.
Approach
Urban-Econ gives particular attention to the following in the feasibility studies and business plans that it undertakes:
- Market demand and supply conditions, ie volume turnover, price fluctuations & competitor positioning
- Market segmentation
- Technical and financial viability
- Social and economic viability
- Value chain linkages and constraints
- Environmental sustainability of the project
- Human resource requirements, training and skills development
- BBEEE and SMME business outsourcing opportunities
- Alignment of the project to the national development priorities
- Impacts and implications of social and economic factors, ie HIV/Aids, youth and gender bias.
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Recently Completed Examples:
- Ladysmith Black Mambazo Indigenous Music Academy
- KZN Furniture Cluster
- Madiba Bay Leisure Park Flagship Project
- Richards Bay Industrial Park Feasibility Study
- Stellenbosch Training Centre
- Mafikeng Guest House Business Plan
- Microlight Aircraft Manufacturing Plant Business Plan
- JDA Business Plans
- Windhoek SME Incubator Feasibility Study
- Phokwane Biotechnology Business Plan
- Polokwane Entrepreneurial Development Centre
- Kayamandi Tourism Route Business Plan
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