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Huge Group Limited (JSE:HUG) began as a consolidation between corporate telecommunications giants TelePassport and Centracell to form Huge Telecom in 2007, and has since evolved into a formidable diversified investment holdings group. Huge Group is focused on unlocking opportunities in South Africa through strategic acquisitions.
Huge Group currently operates five businesses:
Huge Connect
Provides value-added data services using GSM-based cellular data networks for business-to-business and machine-to-machine applications.
Huge Networks
Provides customers with a complete solution to their current and future data, internet, communications and private network needs.
Huge Software
Provides customers with a fully integrated online accounting solution suitable for small, medium and large businesses, as well as a mobile application.
Huge Telecom
Provides a GSM-based wireless full suite telephony service that gives customers a replacement for their traditional “telco” fixedline voice infrastructure.
Pansmart
Distributes Panasonic voice, video and CCTV products offering innovative solutions, insights into cutting-edge developments and deliver advanced telecommunications services.
Huge Group listed on the JSE's Alt-X board in August 2007, and moved to the Main Board in 2016.
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2023-04-20It was huge, expensive and top secret.
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2022-11-17PARIS (Reuters) -France will face South Africa at Marseille`s Stade Velodrome on Saturday with the same team who edged Australia last weekend, looking to extend their unbeaten record to 12 matches.
2022-11-10South Africa and India will look to seal places in the Twenty20 World Cup semi-finals with regulation wins over cricketing minnows as the Super 12 phase wraps up with a flurry of matches on Sunday.
2022-11-05Misuzulu, who has promised to unite his nation and protect tradition, was officially recognised as the AmaZulu King by the South African government on Saturday in the first Zulu coronation since 1971.
2022-10-29
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African state logistics group Transnet said cable theft had spiked during a strike by its staff this month, further hobbling a freight rail service whose poor performance was already costing exporters billions of rand annually.
2022-10-25
South African state logistics group Transnet said cable theft had spiked during a strike by its staff this month, further hobbling a freight rail service whose poor performance was already costing exporters billions of rand annually.
2022-10-25
South Africa`s finance minister is expected to announce a plan to take on part of power utility Eskom`s mammoth debt in a mid-term budget on Wednesday, although analysts say the legally complex transfer will take time to execute.
2022-10-25Former Australia captain Tim Paine has accused South Africa of ball-tampering in the match that immediately followed the infamous 2018 Newlands test which saw the Australian team engulfed in the `Sandpaper-gate` scandal.
2022-10-25
South Africa will be glued to their hotel television sets on Saturday as they hope for an Australia upset over New Zealand ahead of their own Rugby Championship finale against Argentina later in the day at King’s Park in Durban.
2022-09-23TotalEnergies 11B/12B offshore gas field could make a direct annual contribution of at least 8 billion rand ($457 million) to South African government finances, the country`s petroleum regulator said on Thursday.
2022-09-15LONDON (Reuters) -Zak Crawley and Ollie Pope steered England to an impressive nine-wicket victory over South Africa at The Oval on Monday to complete a 2-1 series victory and put the seal on an astonishing turnaround in fortunes for the home team this year.
2022-09-12
The heavyweight trio of hosts South Africa, New Zealand and Fiji eased into the men’s quarter-finals at the Rugby World Cup Sevens on Friday, but England fell at the first hurdle.
2022-09-09James Anderson hailed England’s all-round improvement and called inspirational captain Ben Stokes a "freak" as they thumped South Africa by an innings and 85 runs in the second test at Old Trafford on Saturday, setting up a series decider at The Oval.
2022-08-27South Africa are hopeful key fast bowler Kagiso Rabada will be fit for the first test against England that starts at Lord`s on Wednesday, but he has not been cleared to take his place in the side quite yet, according to captain Dean Elgar.
2022-08-16Throwing away a five-shot lead on the final day of a major would previously have sent Ashleigh Buhai into panic mode but the South African said her work with a sports psychologist helped her stay calm and claim the Women`s British Open on Sunday.
2022-08-08
Europe`s thirst for oil and gas to replace sanctioned Russian supply is reviving interest in African energy projects that were shunned due to costs and climate change concerns, industry executives and African officials said.
2022-07-22BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) -Replacement flyhalf Gareth Anscombe kicked a late conversion from the touchline as Wales claimed their first ever away victory in South Africa with an error-strewn 13-12 success over a much-changed Springboks at the Free State Stadium on Saturday.
2022-07-10With two days to go until opening to the public, workers rush to put the finishing touches on the Kwena Square shopping complex, a shiny $13 million sign that South Africans are defying the global "retail apocalypse".
2022-06-29
