South Africa, June 3 -- Clout SA launches this June with a mission to promote South Africa's creativity, craftsmanship and heritage, and create opportunities for collaboration between designers and makers.

A purpose-first enterprise, creative agency and business-to-business (B2B) market-maker for South African design, Clout has been quietly working on projects for the last seven years, despite only officially launching this month.

Much of this work was done on the agency's founding project, the Nando's Design Programme and eventually, the Nando's Portal to Africa, an online shopping platform for designer furniture that has facilitated more than R60m worth of sales across 20,900 products since it was launched in 2018, making it one of th...