Gondolier Automotive Technologies · Randburg, South Africa
Welcome to the Family.
Your import and distribution partner to Southern Africa's automotive, refinishing, industrial, agricultural and aviation industries since 1999.
A partner with a vested interest.
We believe business works best when everyone wins. That's why our partnerships are built on trust, shared success, and doing the right thing regardless.
World-class standards.
Every brand on these shelves is chosen for one simple reason: because we'd confidently recommend it to our own family.
Committed to serving the industry.
An accredited equipment service centre at our Randburg headquarters. A personal representative mapped to every region, reachable on a direct line. We service what we sell.
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- 1999
- Founded in Randburg
- 20+
- World-class agencies, audited constantly
- 8
- Export markets across Southern Africa
- 4
- In-house brands: Glozz, Glissen, Black Steel, Fixon
How we do business
Not how business can be done. How business should be done.
Positive-sum partnerships
A win-win way of doing business where mutual success is structurally built into the relationship. Your success is our success - literally.
World-class standards
An unwavering commitment to premium quality and long-term value, so that every solution strengthens your business.
Doing the right thing, regardless
Trust and confidence, earned over time through consistency, integrity and showing up when it matters most. We'd rather sleep under a bridge than do business any other way.
Ubuntu: I am, because we are
Just as a person is a person through other people, so a business is a business through other businesses.
Our massive transformative purpose
Being your family in better business.
The reason we exist, and the future we're working towards.
“The goal is not to do business with everyone who needs what we have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what we believe.”
The portfolio
Every brand on this wall earned its place.
Our products originate from carefully selected manufacturers with significant international market share, top global reputations, and cutting edge technology. We audit our suppliers, constantly. The day a brand stops being the benchmark in its category is the day it leaves the wall.
Mafra
Car care · Italy · Enter →
Labocosmetica
Detailing chemistry · Italy · Enter →
Glissen
Surface finishing · Gondolier in-house · Enter →
Maniac Line
Specialist detailing · Italy · Enter →
Walcom
Spray equipment · Italy · Enter →
Glissen, Black Steel and Fixon are Gondolier in-house brands, developed in partnership with top manufacturers and built for South Africa. The full portfolio of twenty-plus agencies lives in the customer portal.
The offer
Everything you need to build better business.
Premium brands, technical expertise, practical training and dedicated support all packaged into one connected partnership designed to help your business perform at its best.
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World-class brands
Twenty-plus agencies from the world's top manufacturers across Italy, Germany, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Canada, Belgium and China. Plus the in-house portfolio: Glozz, Black Steel, Glissen, Fixon.
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Five-star service
An accredited equipment service centre at our Randburg headquarters. Our commitment extends far beyond the purchase of superior equipment. We service what we sell, because great partnerships don't end when the order is delivered; they begin there.
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Top-notch training
Skillz for Profit, our skills-development initiative, plus the Glozz and Maniac Line training programmes equip partners with practical education, technical expertise and commercial insight, because your techs' hands are worth more trained.
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Incredible infrastructure
The Multicat distributor portal routes every order to the distributor of your choice, who then handles delivery and payment directly. Recommended selling prices protect the network. No fly-by-night undercutting the partner who built the relationship.
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Good people
GPS: Gondolier Personalised Service. A named representative mapped to every region, reachable on a direct line. Not a ticket queue; a cell number.
The whole warehouse, one checkout away.
The network
Southern Africa, covered.
Gondolier's distribution runs through 378 real accounts, hubbed out of Joburg and reaching every major South African metro, plus seven export markets beyond our borders, from Botswana to the Seychelles.
Skillz for Profit
Repair beats replacement. The industry proved it.
A month-long trial at a real bodyshop turned 76 panels that would have been replaced into repairs instead - over R220,000 in additional profit, on the shop's own job cards. Free training ships with the equipment.
Learn moreThe bays
Five bays. Every one, equipped.
Paint, detailing, panel beating, preparation, wash: the same bay configurations our equipment runs in, in real workshops across Southern Africa.
Service & support
We service what we sell.
Most importers sell you the machine and disappear. An accredited equipment service centre at our headquarters supports you after the sale, so you can bring your Gondolier equipment back to us. Because that's what family does.
Gondolier HQ
Randburg
Northlands Business Park, 368 Politician Avenue, Northriding
Book your equipment in
Leboti Mahloko · Service Centre Co-Ordinator
Training
If you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life.
The Glozz Detailing Training Course: two real days, presented by a Glozz Product Specialist, for aspiring professionals and enthusiasts with a passion for perfection. It's one course under the wider Skillz for Profit umbrella, which also runs the Maniac Line program.
Day 1
- Health & safety, ground up
- Mobile vs fixed-site detailing
- Paint assessment & thickness
- Compounding & polishing fundamentals
Day 2
- The full wash process, practical
- Paint correction & rectification
- Compounding, polishing & masking, practical
- Business development & marketing
GPS · Gondolier Personalised Service
Our team
Almari Jooste
Procurement Co-Ordinator
GPS · Gondolier Personalised Service
A person, not a portal.
Meet the representative in your area, for a personalised approach to customer service. Direct, friendly assistance. Here are their cell numbers.
Inland
Free State · Gauteng · Limpopo · Mpumalanga · North West
Trevor Vogl
National Sales Manager
Nationwide
PD Smit
Technical Sales Consultant
Free State, Limpopo, Mpumalanga East, Eswatini, inland KwaZulu-Natal
Arno Van Zyl
Technical Sales Consultant
Gauteng, Vaal, Potchefstroom, Klerksdorp
Ghian Kahts
Technical Sales Consultant
Coastal
Eastern Cape · KwaZulu-Natal · Northern Cape · Western Cape
Remano Arnoldes
Technical Sales Consultant
Eastern Cape & KwaZulu-Natal
Exports
Namibia · Botswana · Malawi · Mauritius · Zimbabwe · Zambia · Lesotho · Eswatini
Trevor Vogl
National Sales Manager
All export markets
Where to next
The showroom is open.
Opening through 2026
- Provenancewhere every brand comes from
- The Audithow we vet what we sell
- Showroomswelding · tools · refinishing
- The Familythe people on the other end of the line
The office
Northlands Business Park, 368 Politician Avenue, Northriding, Randburg 2194+27 11 704 4444info@gondolier.co.zaWhere to buy
Trade: order through the Multicat catalogue, routed to your distributor.
Consumer: shop the Glozz Store, free delivery over R1000, plus Takealot and Makro.
© 2026 Gondolier Automotive Technologies
Exports: Namibia · Botswana · Malawi · Mauritius · Zimbabwe · Zambia · Lesotho · Eswatini
