Allied Electronics Corporation Limited (Altron) owns perhaps the most diverse set of ICT assets of any JSE-listed company. From vehicle tracking in its Altech Netstar division, to the well-known ATM business within Bytes, to the DStv decoders made by Altech UEC – many consumers interact with some kind of Altron-owned product every single day, without knowing it.

But following Altron’s recent re-organisation of some of the assets held under Altech, Bytes and Powertech, and its buy-out of those Altech shares it did not already own, a new era seems to be descending on the technology group that employs 13 000 around the globe.