Our #MCM, Herbert Ganje, is the founder of the multi-million dollar advertising company, H & G Advertising.
The story of Herbert Ganje is very inspiring. He dropped out of school in Form One and went to live in Botswana with a friend. While staying in a tuck shop, he got his first client, Shoprite. This was to be the start of H & G Advertising, a multimillion-dollar advertising agency. Currently, the company operates in Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Zambia, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Mozambique, Uganda, Malawi, and Eswatini.
It boasts of reputable clients like Coca Cola, Emirates, Unilever, Samsung, and others. In addition, H & G Advertising employs more than 80 permanent employees and 600 temporary staff. Its turnover is about US$38 million a year.
Ganje has now opened several other companies namely, H & G OutDoor, H & G Activations, H & G Express, and Zonke Ignition. He was named on the Forbes Africa 30 Under 30 Entrepreneurs list and the 30 Most Promising Entrepreneurs in 2017.
Of his company, Ganje explained that “We have a group of companies within the agency of agencies, which are client-specific. We cover digital marketing, below and above the line marketing, media buying.”
Raised in the suburbs of Waterfalls, in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, Ganje, said he now wants to turn H & G Advertising into the biggest advertising agency in Africa, and compete globally.
