Agility and flexibility provide competitive advantage

[Abe Uys & Ken Light] We live in an information age of consumerism and globalisation. Product lifecycles are getting shorter. Customers are becoming ever more perceptive and fickle. Demand cycles are increasingly volatile. Goods need to go from research and development to the shelf in record time in order for companies to compete for a shrinking slice of a rapidly evolving market. Logistically, the goalposts are continually shifting. 4 Nov 2011 09:52

Bizcommunity.com

Bizcommunity launches new dedicated sectors, newsletters

Bizcommunity.com - South Africa's largest online B2B publisher - is set to grow even more with the introduction of 16 new content channels, with weekly newsletters, as from last week Tuesday, 20 September 2011. 20 Sep 2011 15:45

It's party time at Bizcommunity! #happybiz10

On 20 August 2001, Andre Rademan and Ken van Ginkel sent out the very first Bizcommunity.com newsletter. Now, almost 10 years to the day, we're mixing up potions and even baking in preparation for our 'high calorie', 'light-fuse-and-stand-back' 10th birthday celebrations! [twitterfall] 22 Aug 2011 10:10

RSA Market Agents comes to Cape Town

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development for the Western Cape, Gerrit van Rensburg, officially opened the fifth agency for market agency group, RSA Market Agents, in Cape Town on 1 March 2011. The agency joins Johannesburg, Durban, Bloemfontein and Tshwane markets, rounding off its presence on the five leading fresh markets in the country. Fresh produce markets (19 in total) posted a turnover for 2009/10 in excess of R9.4 billion and handled over 3 million tons of fruit and vegetables. 9 Mar 2011 08:51

Farmers suffer in Transnet strike

[Michael Hamlyn] Cries for help are beginning to be heard from the country's beleaguered farmers because of the effects of the Transnet strike on ports and harbours. 25 May 2010 15:22

New milk supply arrangements for Nestlé Zimbabwe

The Dairy Board of Zimbabwe yesterday, 1 October 2009, informed the Gushungo Dairy Estate and the seven other farms with whom Nestlé Zimbabwe began working on a temporary basis in February 2009, that it is now in a position to resume purchasing their milk. Nestlé Zimbabwe therefore will no longer be receiving milk from these eight farms from Sunday, 4 October 2009. 2 Oct 2009 09:32

Nestlé defends buying milk from Mugabe

Nestlé Zimbabwe yesterday, 28 Septemeber 2009, defended its decision to buy milk from Gushungo Dairy Estate, a formerly white-owned farm taken over by Grace Mugabe, wife of President Robert Mugabe. 29 Sep 2009 13:15

Online meals free up Mom

The trend to quality, nutritional online cuisine has been successfully developed by Chef Direct, a Northriding business that serves Greater Johannesburg and Centurion. The company spent 18 months planning and investing before launching the online ordering model a year ago. 28 Aug 2009 12:10

EU cuts Mediterranean tuna fishing

BRUSSELS: The Mediterranean tuna fishing season will be 15 days shorter this year with quotas and fleets also cut, EU sources said Wednesday, 15 April 2009; but environmentalists complained it was too little, too late. 16 Apr 2009 12:14