We hold and help build operating businesses.
Global Trade Holdings takes long-term positions in a small number of companies and stays involved in how they are run. We are not a fund, and we do not manage capital on behalf of outside investors.
Long horizons
We buy to hold. There is no fund life, no exit clock and nobody above us asking for a return by a particular quarter, which changes what a business can sensibly be asked to do.
Operator-led
We are not passive. We take board seats, help hire, and stay close to the numbers. Where we are useful we get involved; where we are not, we stay out of the way.
Concentrated
A small number of positions, each one understood properly. We would rather know a handful of businesses well than hold a spread of them at arm's length.
One operating company, held for the long term.
We hold a shareholding in Kora, a Cape Town social media marketing agency working with influencers and creators. We add positions slowly and only where we can be genuinely useful.
If you think there is something here, tell us.
We look at proposals from operators building something in areas we understand. We reply to everything, including the ones that are not a fit.