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Trevor Field and the PlayPumps of Africa

Case Code: LDEN057
Case Length: 21 Pages
Period: 1998-2008
Pub Date: 2009
Teaching Note: Available
Price: Rs.500
Organization : Roundbout Outdoor, Playpumps International
Industry :Social Sector
Countries : Africa
Themes: Entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship, Base of the Pyramid
Trevor Field and the PlayPumps of Africa
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Background Note

The Birmingham-born Field had a career in advertising and marketing. He had also worked extensively in the printing and publishing industries, both in South Africa and the UK. Between 1971 and 1974, he worked with British Telkom and trained as Senior Technician in transmission...

RO was a for-profit organization with a social mission. Subsequently, Field and his colleagues made more changes in the PlayPump's features and named the product 'PlayPump Water System', which they registered as a trademark...

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