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Growing creative businesses
The CDI is a craft and design sector development agency with a mission to develop capable people and build responsible creative and innovative enterprises trading within local and international markets.
The CDI is a non-profit company with over 24 years of success in developing creative people, small businesses and the craft and design sector at large in South Africa. The CDI is a catalytic agent of change, and passionate about developing appropriately skilled, resourced and digitally proficient practitioners who can successfully leverage opportunities for growth and development.
The CDI currently supports over 7000 creative and innovative businesses and individual craft artisans in South Africa. Those supported by the CDI range from start-ups to exporting enterprises and are based all over South Africa – from rural towns to urban centres. CDI’s services help these businesses develop the right product/service for the right market using appropriate business and production systems; and facilitates national and international market opportunities to help them grow.