Naspers Limited is a Cape Town-based South African multinational internet, technology, and multimedia holding company with holdings in online shopping, publishing, and venture capital investing. Naspers' primary shareholder is Prosus, a Dutch listed investment business that holds around 49% of its parent as part of a cross ownership arrangement. Naspers, founded in 1915 by attorney W. A. Hofmeyr, was South Africa's largest publishing business during the twentieth century, having holdings in newspapers, magazines, and books. In the 1980s, the corporation began to diversify, offering a subscription television service and investing for the first time outside of South Africa. Naspers made an early investment in Chinese technology giant Tencent in 2001, and the company has since been increasingly focused on the global consumer internet industry. Naspers owns or has invested in various other big global brands like PayU, OLX, MakemyTrip, etc. As of early 2023, Naspers employed over 35,000 people.
The USP of Naspers is that it is one of the largest global internet and entertainment group in the world. The mission statement of Naspers reads, “We believe in the power of local backed by global scale and we look for opportunities to address big societal needs in markets where we see the greatest growth potential.”
Business Sector
Technology, Internet and Media Group
Operating Geography
Cape town, Africa, Global
Revenue
USD 36.7 billion - FY ending March 31st 2022
USD 29.5 billion – FY ending March 31st 2021
SWOT
SWOT Matrix for Naspers
Strength
Weakness
Strong presence in around 130 countries making it one of the largest technology investors globally
Strong local backup and workforce
Built many leading brands, very large customers network
Leadership positions in food delivery business in many large geographies
Slow performance growth in video-entertainment business
Low valuation of the company compared to its investments
Weak social media presence
Opportunity
Threat
Outlines path to e-commerce profits
Focus on latest technologies
Video on demand (VOD) Segment opportunities
Opportunities to unlock adjacent business models in grocery delivery and quick commerce
Competition from Google, Amazon and Facebook
Threat from increase in Chinese government protectionism competitors
Detailed SWOT Analysis of Naspers
The detailed SWOT analysis for Naspers Limited is presented below:
Strength
Strong presence in around 130 countries making it one of the largest technology investors globally: It is organized into six business areas of Classifieds, payments, B2C, ventures, video entertainment and media. It has a strong differentiating factor from its competitors in the way it operates. Naspers invest in and run the leading companies and add value at all life stages. It invests in companies with great potential to grow or have already secured leading market positions. It mainly identifies and targets start-ups taking into account big societal needs, which makes it a sustainable business. These business attitudes and strategies have helped it to expand its reach beyond its origin and into big markets across the globe.
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Weakness
Slow performance growth in video-entertainment business: Naspers Video entertainment business continues to face challenges which it identified in the last financial year. It had analyzed that cost of 10 gigabytes of mobile data was subjected to economic differences across continents. In some places it cost around 100% of their annual incomes. It created a gap in providing affordable broadband connectivity, which is expected to be filled in a few years. Though the business has started to stabilize, but it is a slow progress.
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Opportunity
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Threat
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PESTLE
PESTLE Matrix for Naspers
Political
Economic
Exchange controls and policies
Desire to exit the Russian classified market, following an accusation from Ukrainian government
Changes in Chinese government political stances
Mergers of existing companies with new brands
Economic growth in emerging markets
Social
Technological
Supportive demographics for digital business expansion
Increasing consumer trust across online market places
Customer Satisfaction measured in Internet businesses
Impact of Artificial Intelligence in media and entertainment industry
Growth in E-commerce segments
Legal
ENVIRONMENTAL
Regulations for media, entertainment, internet and content businesses
Importance of regional public policy teams
Initiatives to tackle pollution and carbon footprint
Compliance by International standards, and third-party reviews
Detailed PESTLE Analysis of Naspers
The detailed PESTLE analysis for Naspers Limited is presented below:
POLITICAL
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ECONOMIC
Economic growth in emerging markets: There is a great potential for Naspers to invest in emerging markets to capture them. It recently invested $89 million in an online marketplace car dealer store-Frontier Car Group. Martin Scheepbouwer, chief executive of OLX group, Naspers classifieds subsidiary said that such investments will help the company accelerate their Mergers and Acquisitions strength to a good extent. This proves that such emerging markets carefully chosen along with implementable strategies, can help build Naspers group. As in the past, in the video-entertainment business, it invested in Multichoice Africa, wherein the past year performance tells that the no. of subscribers increased from 1.5 to 13 million households reaching a large audience, also helping Naspers grow economically as the Video entertainment business profits increased by 29%.
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SOCIAL
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TECHNOLOGICAL
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LEGAL
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ENVIRONMENTAL
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Major Brands
Naspers
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SimilarWeb
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Table of Contents
Company Overview
1.1 About the Company
1.2 Business Sector
1.3 Operating Geography
1.4 Revenue
SWOT Analysis
2.1 SWOT Table/ SWOT Matrix
2.2 SWOT Overview
2.3 Detailed SWOT Analysis
2.4 Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threat
PESTLE Analysis
3.1 PESTLE Table/ PESTLE Matrix
3.2 PESTLE Overview
3.3 Detailed PESTLE Analysis
3.4 Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal and Environmental
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Naspers to sell Russia’s biggest online classifieds business Avito - https://www.ft.com/content/ce892012-6245-4a31-8f14-442ec0a79ed3
Creating sustainable value - https://www.naspers.com/sustainability/overview
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