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DHL has released its 'Global E-Tailing 2025' report, which analyses the role that e-commerce will play in consumers' lives in the year 2025, and how it will influence consumerism, retailing and logistics. Read more >> | Authors from Regent Business School According to the UNCTAD, Africa offers the highest return on direct foreign investment in the world. However, as much as Africa has much to offer in terms of trade, the business environment is littered with legal, political, social and economic challenges. Read more >> | |
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 | Yesterday, 19 June 2014, Massmart and the City of Joburg held a supplier development exhibition for Johannesburg-based manufacturers to showcase their products with a possibility of becoming suppliers to Massmart. Read more >>
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 | The launch of Vigour & Verve (V&V) 'coffee and everything in between' restaurants marks the start of the rollout of the new food and beverage brands for Tsogo Sun. The restaurants are being positioned prominently near the entrance in selected hotels where they will encourage walk-in customers as well as residents of the hotel. Read more >>
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 | Samuel Mungadze Transnet Port Terminals (TPT)‚ the port operations division of state-owned logistics company Transnet‚ has launched its own app) giving users access to information about its 16 terminals. Read more >>
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 | The Bureau for Economic Research (BER) manufacturing business confidence index fell to 25 points in the second quarter of 2014 from 41 in the first quarter‚ with manufacturers at their most pessimistic since the fourth quarter of 2009. Read more >>
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 | Megan Badenhorst Looking back to March 2011, the media were positively giddy with excitement about the Consumer Protection Act, No. 68 of 2008 (CPA) and the whip cracking that was to be done by the National Consumer Commission on behalf of consumers who felt hard done by after poor treatment from goods suppliers or service providers. Read more >>
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 | Wholesale trade sales decreased 0.7% year on year (y/y) in April compared with a 6% rise y/y in March‚ Statistics SA data showed on Thursday, 19 June 2014. Read more >>
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 | Motor trade sales (measured in nominal terms and current prices) decreased by 2% year-on-year (y/y) in April from a 2.9% increase y/y in March‚ Statistics SA says. Read more >>
|  | Thabiso Mochiko French telecommunications company, Orange, may open its own branded stores to complement its existing online retail platform‚ which is expected to break even early next year. Read more >>
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 | Issued by Xpertek Contact Xpertek Contact, the customer experience management division of the Xpertek Group, has partnered with Canadian-based Turnstyle Solutions to launch Turnstyle's cloud-based solution and products in southern Africa. Read more >>
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|  | SINGAPORE: Singapore police on Thursday said they were investigating an anonymous blog which listed ways to target the city-state's Filipino population, in the latest racial row there. Read more >>
|  | NEW YORK, US: Twitter said Thursday it has bought SnappyTV, a California firm that lets people edit and share clips from TV broadcasts. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Read more >>
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|  | A total of R53m of the R80m budget for equipment for the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital was not spent in the 2013/14 financial year. Read more >>
|  | All matric examination officials will have to get a police and a security clearance if proposed regulations are adopted. Read more >>
|  | Cape Town will expand its rapid bus system to two townships after winning support from a taxi association that was opposed to the service. Read more >>
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| Fashion UpThe Common Room - 27 Jun 2014 Johannesburg EnviroCon 2014Environmental Assurance (Pty) Ltd - 22 Oct 2014 to 24 Oct 2014 Pretoria |
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