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About Us

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The online presence of GAP Essentials came into being due to the effects of COVID-19 & I’m not going to bore you with those details, but let me just say this, e-Commerce is the only way we’re gonna remain relevant for now.

The child of GAP Designs, established in 2000, and GAP Printing & Packaging, established in 2009.

Starting from a humble “garage-agency”, the owner of GAP Designs grew the initial agency into what it has become now. We remained a small-medium sized business, but we compete against the larger corporate types, who were and is still mainly biased towards being run by men. As you can deduce from that, GAP Designs/GAP Printing & Packaging is solely owned by a woman; not only is she a “powerful” coloured women, but she’s also supremely intellectual (EQ), and technically savvy.

The business of GAP Designs expanded from pure agency and design to manufacturing POP merchandising display stands plus offering graphic design & printing to well known cosmetic & alcohol brands in South Africa. These brands that sell their products in retail stores in malls & all over South Africa, would enlist GAP to design & manufacture counter & floor standing merchandising items, small & large scale digital printing works & later on this expanded to building & embellishing shop counters, gondolas, display windows to building & installing full branded stores within a store. Due to the effect of the coronavirus pandemic, GAP Essentials was “born”. Here we are now ready to forge another path & hopefully bring you along to help us realize a journey full of growth and potential. Please be kind as we’re still just an “infant” trying to grow up in an ever-changing environment. We might make mistakes here & there, but we’ll learn from our failures & continue to try & bring meaning and value to our offerings as we adjust & change – BeBraveBePositiveBeYou.

”You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” – Maya Angelou

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“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
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Socrates
"We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone . . . and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.”
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Sandra Day O'Connor
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
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Albert Einstein
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In a world of manipulated feeds of information, fake news and divisive social-media agendas, it's easy to believe that our time is the most challenging in human history. But, it could be a time of extraordinary opportunity. For that you need the right mindset. Fear of the future breeds inaction and leads to strategic paralysis. We put off decisions until we can have certainty. We look for signals. We wait. And while we do that, the world moves on around us. Problem solvers thrive in chaotic and uncertain times because they act to change their future. Winners recognise that in a world of growing uncertainty, you need to resort to actions on things you can control. And the only things over which you have absolute control are your attitude and your mindset. These, in turn, determine the actions you will take and that will define your future.
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