12–15%
Night fuel volume, first 60 days — South African downstream field data.
Factory-direct · One partner · Across SADC
23° South
From Bare Ground to Grand Opening. Half the Cost. One Single Partner.
Radical value engineering. Zero middleman markup. We deploy factory-direct European manufacturing lines to cut your SADC site rollout costs by 50%.
- Capex cut
- 50%
- Night lift
- 12–15%
- Ownership
- 48 mo
Rig 01 · tank set
Turnkey filling stations●
QSR chains●
Bakery●
C-store fleets●
New sites · revamps · commissioning●
Factory-direct●
Turnkey filling stations●
QSR chains●
Bakery●
C-store fleets●
New sites · revamps · commissioning●
Solar · security · digital pumps●
One stop. Every critical system.
Premium turnkey for operators who scale.
Brand development, concept, new sites, commissioning and revamps — filling stations as the master layout, with kitchen, cold, digital and power on the same spine.
01 · Core
23 South Turnkey Forecourts
Advanced European forecourt tech. Industrial power arrays. Tanks, dispensers, canopy and total site architecture as one commissioned asset.
Enter filling stations →
02 · Retail
23 South Retail & Cooling
Low-power premium-aesthetic refrigeration. Rugged pressure fryers. Cold and kitchen that hold on brittle SADC grids.
Enter retail & cooling →
03 · Bakery
23 South Bakery Systems
Long-life industrial deck and rotary ovens. Hyper-efficient convenience heat that prints margin every hour.
Enter bakery systems →
04 · Conversion
Digital Pump Conversion
Analogue forecourts become digital without a rebuild. Every litre registered. Pilferage ends.
Stop the leakage →
05 · Power & watch
Solar & Security
Hybrid power that keeps you trading through outages. Cameras, perimeter and forecourt hardware.
Protect the site →
06 · Value-add
Drive-Thru, Car Wash & Plot
QSR lanes, rollover and tunnel wash bays, LPG, tyre towers, ice, water, ATM pods and fleet lanes.
Work the whole plot →
Primary anchor · Turnkey filling stations
The master layout.
Heavy engineering, underground tanks, state-of-the-art dispensers and total site architecture — from surveyed plot to fuel in the hose. One accountable partner.
- ▸ Multi-hose systems with cloud-minded forecourt control.
- ▸ Power arrays specified for night canopy and a shop that must not trip.
- ▸ Tanks, pipework, leak detection, civil interface, grand-opening commissioning.
Special offering · existing sites
Bring a quiet site back to life.
Some forecourts vanish after sunset. Flat colour. No pull. Night trade that should be yours, sitting on the road.
In the South African downstream, field data shows that moving a site from generic corporate colour to a living, dimensional night presence lifts nighttime fuel volumes by 12% to 15% within the first 60 days.
We recut the face of the site — wall-to-wall glazing in slim aluminium frames, canopy, pumps, the whole forecourt — until the road can find you after dark. A tired plot starts selling again. No new tanks required. No eighteen-month rebuild. Presence, then volume.
Relight a site60 days
From a site that fades to a site that still sells after dark.
Live
The face of canopy, pumps and forecourt recut until presence returns.
04 · Digital conversion · existing sites
Every litre. Counted.
An analogue forecourt leaks. Nobody can say where. Shifts do not reconcile, variance becomes a habit, and the difference quietly walks off the site.
We convert what you already own. The old forecourt becomes digital — each pump measured at the source, every transaction accounted, blind operating hours removed entirely. Fuel leakage, manual error and pilferage stop being an operational worry and become a solved problem.
Result: a set that finally tells the truth. Full pilferage and theft elimination on the forecourt, and a shift report the owner can trust.
100%
Pilferage and theft elimination across the forecourt.
No blind hours
Every delivery, every shift, every litre traced.
Keep the set
Your pumps, modernised. No rebuild, no long closure.
Commercial kitchens & QSR
Heat that survives a 24-hour shift.
Rugged pressure fryers and stainless process lines for QSR chains and forecourt kitchens. Same partner as the pumps. Train the bay once. Clone it across borders.
C-store & supermarket refrigeration
A cold wall, wall to wall.
Frameless, wall-to-wall vertical cases under high, even lighting — milk, yoghurt, water, health drinks and juices lit like a premium brand, not a dim chill room. Zero-condensation glass. Island freezers standing free on the floor.
Low-power, aesthetic-first cold that holds on regional SADC grids and merchandises every square metre of the shop.
Commercial bakery & fresh juicing
Hot trays out. Cold juice poured.
Rotary rack and combi ovens sliding out trays of gourmet loaves and laminated pastry on the hour — paired with front-of-house automatic citrus juicers pressing whole fruit behind glass into chilled grab-and-go bottles.
Two high-margin theatre points that pull a driver out of the car and into the shop. No brands on the glass — just your margin.
05 · Solar & security systems
Power that holds. Eyes that do not blink.
A forecourt that loses the grid loses the night. An unlit yard loses stock. Both are silent losses on the P&L.
We size hybrid solar to carry your canopy, cold rooms and shop through the worst of the regional grid — so the site keeps trading when the lights go out. Then we watch it: forecourt, pumps, back-of-house and perimeter on camera and recorded, wired to the same hardware standard as everything else we commission.
- ▸ Hybrid solar with storage, sized to keep the site live through outages.
- ▸ Forecourt and back-of-house camera coverage with recorded evidence.
- ▸ Perimeter and access control for yards, tanks and stock rooms.
- ▸ Installed, commissioned and handed over with the rest of the site.
Next-horizon forecourt · EV & enterprise software
Plug in the car. Lock in the driver.
Two plays that move a site from a fuel stop to a sticky regional network: fast DC charging bays balanced with your hybrid solar, and a proprietary card, loyalty, POS and back-office spine that keeps every fleet and commuter inside your estate.
Sub-menu · EV charging stations
Twenty-minute dwell. Built for your c-store.
A driver on a fast charger is a twenty-minute customer in your bakery, juice bar and QSR. We lay the civil ducting on day one or commission full DC fast-charging pedestals now — load-shared with your solar array so peak demand never punishes the tariff.
- ▸ Dual-gun DC fast pedestals & fleet overnight bays
- ▸ Solar + battery load-balancing to cap grid draw
- ▸ Tap-to-pay, fleet tag or your own loyalty wallet
Sub-menu · Card, loyalty, POS & backend
One card at the pump, the till and the wash.
Custom-branded fleet and consumer cards, closed-loop wallets, tags and QR — tied straight to the pump controller, the c-store POS, the drive-thru and your head-office ledger. Shift close, wetstock, dry stock and tax happen automatically.
- ▸ Own-brand fleet & loyalty cards with spend rules by vehicle or driver
- ▸ Unified POS across forecourt, c-store, QSR, bakery & car wash
- ▸ Automated backend: shift reconciliation, stock, margin & ERP feed
06 · Site value-add · non-fuel margin
Fuel brings the car. The rest of the plot prints the margin.
A forecourt that only sells litres leaves half its square metres idle. We lay out the drive-thru lane, the wash bays and the forecourt services as part of the same site geometry — power, drainage, cameras and signage already accounted for.
QSR drive-thru
The lane that never backs onto the pumps.
Order posts, canopy, speaker loops, window sequence and turning radii drawn with the kitchen bay — so a six-car queue clears without choking the forecourt.
Car wash & bays
Rollover, tunnel or self-serve.
High-throughput wash arches, water reclamation, vacuum islands and mat stations — specified for dusty corridors, hard water and twenty-four-hour use.
Also on the plot
- ▸ Air, water & digital tyre towers
- ▸ LPG cages & swap lockers
- ▸ Ice, water & vending walls
- ▸ATM pods & parcel lockers
- ▸ Trucker showers & fleet lanes
- ▸ EV-ready ducting in the civils
Every add-on shares one electrical board, one drainage plan and one handover.
Zero downtime · remote watch · rapid field response
A dark pump is a broken promise.
Commissioning is day one. What makes or breaks an estate is month nineteen — when a nozzle, a compressor, an inverter or an oven tries to fail on a Friday night.
Every site we hand over stays on our watch. Pumps, cold walls, fryers, ovens and hybrid power report back continuously. Drift is caught before a manager notices. When metal needs a spanner, a trained crew with held spares is already rolling.
For site operators
Your asset stays earning.
24/7 telemetry across forecourt, cold and power. Preventative intervention. Rapid technician dispatch from regional hubs with pre-staged critical spares.
For equipment makers
Your hardware stays respected.
In SADC, great machines get blamed for bad installs and slow service. We are the field arm you do not have to build — specification, warehousing, telemetry and first-line warranty care.
Live desk · forecourt · cold · solar · kitchen
SADC field network
24/7
Remote watch
Held
Critical spares in-region
1 call
Every trade on site
Dirt. Metal. Yield. Then fame.
First the asset. Then the brand.
First we secure your physical asset cash flow. Once your regional footprint is established, our dedicated 23 South Brands unit launches your enterprise consumer franchising scale.
Bypassing brand development initially allows the site's physical yield to pay down the partnership structure. Once the cash-flow engine holds across SADC footprints, 23 South Brands launches modernization, franchising and proprietary identity.
01
Concept
Brief, mix, tankage, power. Greenfield or revamp.
02
Allocate
Factory-direct lines. No distributor stack.
03
Commission
One handover. Forecourt, cold, kitchen, bakery.
04
Secure
Digital pumps, cameras and hybrid solar. Leakage and outage risk removed.
05
Yield
Partner-bank Musharaka: rent to zero, 100% yours at month 48.
06
Brand
Optional. Only after the estate already works.
Live economics · structured by our financial partner institutions
Diminishing Musharaka.
Offered through participating financial partner institutions: a 4-year declining co-ownership pathway on 23 South turnkey assets. Fixed monthly equity buyout while the institution’s asset rent falls to zero by month 48 as your share hits 100%. Or toggle direct upfront cash for a 25% factory-direct cut — 50% below legacy SADC incumbents.
Scaling your footprint shouldn't double your debt. If you are rolling out multiple assets across borders, your 25% cash discount scales linearly. 23 South absorbs the logistical complexity, delivering standardized multi-site operations from day one.
4-year Diminishing Musharaka · monthly obligation
● Asset rent ● Total
23 South base
$0
Cash (−25%)
$0
SADC incumbent
$0
Saved vs market
$0
Month 1 $0
Month 48 $0
Equity / mo $0
Owner @ 48 100%
Operators who stopped overpaying.
Gauteng · 6-site forecourt group
“Six forecourts against our usual importer. The cash number was half. After Dark recut two tired sites — night trade came back inside two months.”
Maputo · multi-site QSR
“Fryers, cold, drive-thru lane and power arrived as one thought. Musharaka meant we did not freeze expansion waiting on a bullet payment.”
Gaborone · convenience fleet
“They let the shops earn before they talked brand. When 23 South Brands stepped in, the estate already paid for itself.”
Pathways
How you take the keys.
01
Site Audit
Value-engineered plate. Tankage, shop mix, power. No metal moved until you say so.
Request a briefingPartner banks
02
Musharaka
Offered by our financial partner institutions. 48 months, fixed equity, rent declines to zero — 100% yours at term.
Model this pathway03
Cash −25%
Factory-direct cut. Fifty percent below traditional SADC market competitors. Linear across the fleet.
Lock allocation04
Digital Conversion
Analogue pumps, modernised. Every litre counted. Pilferage eliminated.
Convert a forecourt05
Solar & Security
Hybrid power and forecourt cameras, commissioned with the site.
Scope it06
After Dark
Relight a quiet site. Night volume back in 60 days.
Relight a siteQuestions operators ask.
What does turnkey include?+
Concept, value engineering, factory-direct equipment, logistics, install interface and commissioning. Filling station core is standard; retail, refrigeration, QSR kitchens and bakery bolt on. Civils remain with your contractor unless we write them in.
Who provides the Diminishing Musharaka facility?+
Diminishing Musharaka is offered and underwritten by our participating financial partner institutions — not by 23 South directly. We deliver the value-engineered turnkey asset and package the technical schedule; the partner institution co-owns the asset with you over 48 months while you buy out fixed monthly equity and your rent on their declining share drops to zero.
What is After Dark?+
A relight for sites that disappear after sunset. We recut the visible face of canopy, pumps and forecourt so the road can find you. South African downstream field data: 12–15% more nighttime fuel volume inside 60 days. The method stays with us.
Why 50% below SADC incumbents?+
Regional quotes typically stack importer, distributor and project markups on factory prices. We sell the line. Cash settlement cuts our engineered base by a further 25%.
Can you secure the site we already own?+
Yes. Digital conversion keeps your existing pumps and turns them into counted, digital assets. Hybrid solar carries the site through outages, and forecourt, back-of-house and perimeter camera coverage is installed to the same standard as everything else we commission.
Must we take your brand?+
No. We are brand-agnostic on the forecourt. 23 South Brands is optional and only activates once physical yield is proven.
Commissioning briefing
Put a plot on the plate.
Brief ready for dispatch.
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