The promotion of South Africa’s creativity, craftsmanship, heritage, as well as the creation of opportunities for collaboration between designers and makers, are at the center of what we do as Clout/SA: a purpose-first enterprise, a creative agency, and business-to-business (B2B) market-maker for South African design.
Clout/SA cut its teeth on our founding project, the Nando’s Design Programme and eventually, the Nando’s Portal to Africa, an online shopping platform for designer furniture that has facilitated more than R60 million worth of sales across 20,900 products since it was launched in 2018, making it one of the country’s largest exporters of South African design. As part of the Nando’s Design Programme, we also developed and facilitated one of South Africa’s top biennial design competitions, the Nando’s Hot Young Designer Talent Search.