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BridgeFort Capital Limited is a ZSE listed private equity company listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange in 1997.
Formerly MedTech Holdings is a manufacturing, retail, distribution and services company in Zimbabwe.
The company operates in three market segments; fast-moving consumer goods, medical supplies and manufacturing of light industrial products.
The FMCG division manufactures and markets personal care products, and the medical division produces pharmaceutical products for the wholesale distribution to retail pharmacies.
Vernon Lapham is the chief executive officer of BridgeFort Capital.
He is a qualified chartered accountant having won the W.A. Duff Award for the top qualifying marks when writing his final exams and then went on to become a Partner at Ernst & Young.
He has partnered with many companies over his long career and offers unique insights into investment opportunities. His expertise stems from an avid interest in the inner workings of companies as well as a determination to help Zimbabwean companies thrive.
Since 2008, Vernon has been engaged in corporate advisory and business consultancy as the managing partner of Progility Consult.
Vernon is a non-executive director of African Sun, several private companies and previously sat on the Boards of The Cotton Company of Zimbabwe and Dawn Properties.
BridgeFort Capital Limited also supplies products for laboratories and services education and healthcare institutions.
BridgeFort Capital Limited has retail outlets in Harare and Bulawayo, and a manufacturing plant the produces petroleum jelly and glycerin, health, beauty and personal hygiene products and over-the-counter pharmaceutical products for the local Zimbabwe market as well as for export to Mozambique and Zambia through its subsidiary Baines Imaging Group.
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