ARB Holdings Ltd is a holding and investment company which owns investments in closely related trading and distribution businesses, as well as fixed property for letting. The various operations of the group are summarised below. ARB’s operations comprise 3 main business segments, electrical, lighting, corporate.

The group’s ultimate holding company is Burke Consolidated Holdings (Pty) Ltd

Electrical Division
ARB Electrical Wholesalers (Pty) Ltd, together with its subsidiaries, is a majority owned subsidiary (74%), and is the group’s largest operating division. It is a black-empowered electrical wholesaler operating in southern and South Africa offering a wide range of locally manufactured and imported products including power and instrumentation cabling; overhead line hardware and conductors; insulators; transformers and general electrical contracting materials. Clients range across large and heavy industry, parastatals, major construction groups, mining houses and electrical contractors. The subsidiary continues to expand its footprint by marketing through its Connect stores.

CraigCor Distribution Co (Pty) Ltd, a majority owned subsidiary (75%) of ARB Electrical Wholesalers, is the exclusive Rockwell automation distribution agent in Gauteng, Western Cape, Rustenburg, Namibia and Zambia and Honeywell in South Africa, Namibia and Zambia. ARB Global (Pty) Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary, sells a range of locally manufactured and imported electrical products across South Africa’s borders. CED – Consolidated Electrical Distributor (Pty) Ltd (CED), a wholly owned subsidiary, is the distributor of low voltage products including the Horizon plugs and socket range in South Africa.

Lighting Division
Eurolux (Pty) Ltd, a majority owned subsidiary (60%), together with its wholly owned subsidiaries, the Radiant Group (Pty) Ltd and Cathay (Pty) Ltd, imports and distributes electrical light fittings, lamps andrelated electrical accessories mainly to retail and wholesale stores and principally in South Africa.

Corporate Division
Xact ERP Solutions (Pty) Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary, services the majority of the electrical division’s IT requirements and sells computer hardware and software support. ARB Holdings Ltd also owns a property portfolio and rents these properties to certain of the group’s electrical branch operations.