African Stats is a specialist research house based in Sunnyside, Johannesburg, South Africa.  Principals, Simon McGregor and Jane Tempest draw on their extensive experience in financial, corporate and investment research in guiding a top team of analysts.

"African Stats will continue to produce the type of ground-breaking research that has become a yardstick in economic observation," says Simon in an interview published in the Financial Mail shortly after the company was formed. (View article)  "We hope to benchmark the changing SA and other African economies as they measure up to the global markets."

Current projects include a sector analysis showing each company in each industrial sector including ownership, market share and products.

Simon was a founder, director and shareholder of information network, McGregor Information Services and was responsible for the research for the Who Owns Whom publications.

Jane began her career as a stock broking analyst with Simpson McKie, now HSBC.  More recently she headed up research at McGregor Information Services and Who Owns Whom.  Jane also developed the Companies database for Inet Bridge.