n your hands is our FM The BEE Business Guide - a brand new title in our series of FM Essentials Guides.This directory gives you vital information about specialist and reputable service providers in the BEE business arena, including accredited BEE rating agencies that will help you achieve your own BEE status. Black Economic Empowerment is an integrated socio-economic process that directly contributes to the economic transformation of South Africa and brings about significant increases in the numbers of black people who manage, own and control the country’s economy, as well as significant decreases in income inequalities.As a discerning Financial Mail reader, this guide is right up there with our other leading business publications for you to use with our complements. A further “first time” guide will be published next - The HR & Skills Development Guide.