Cape Town’s Green Sectors Companies Assessed

A fact sheet by GreenCape providing a statistical overview of companies operating within the green sectors of Cape Town, detailing company counts by role, size, employment, and revenue.

• GreenCape assessed a total of 600 companies across various roles in Cape Town's green sectors. The most common roles include Transport (416 companies), Material Recovery (185 companies), and Tech Supply/Distribution (157 companies), while the least common is Goods/Service Offering (9 companies).
• The distribution of companies by size is dominated by Micro enterprises at 46%, followed by Small enterprises at 29%, Medium enterprises at 12%, and Large enterprises at 13%.
• The green sectors in Cape Town employ between 0.4% and 1.8% of the population, with a maximum of 1.6 million employed. The total GDP for these sectors in Cape Town is R312Bn, with annual revenues ranging from a minimum of R5.7B to a maximum of R29.1B.

APA

GreenCape (n.d.). Cape Town’s Green Sectors Companies Assessed. https://greencape.co.za/assets/OVERALL_GREEN_SECTORS.pdf

Chicago

GreenCape. Cape Town’s Green Sectors Companies Assessed. n.d. https://greencape.co.za/assets/OVERALL_GREEN_SECTORS.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{greencapendcape, author = {{GreenCape}}, title = {{Cape Town’s Green Sectors Companies Assessed}}, institution = {GreenCape}, url = {https://greencape.co.za/assets/OVERALL_GREEN_SECTORS.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }