PE guys taking on the on-line world

Three Port Elizabeth friends, who studied at Port Elizabeth Technikon, started an on-line shopping site which is drawing interest from the world‘s top Internet experts. Former Theodor Herzl pupil Justin Drennan (30), his brother Ryan (28) and their friend and former Woodridge College student Terence Murphy (29), started wantitall, now South Africa‘s largest on-line store. It offers over 14 million products from around the world, delivered to your door. They were working in the IT industry in Johannesburg, and started looking at buying electronics from overseas on-line stores. Soon they were importing for colleagues and friends. They set up a small Web site in 2006, with 100 products. They used to finish work at 5pm, then go to Terence‘s house to pack orders until 1am. Google and Amazon have given their business the green light.