 | RETAIL
[Jan Kühn] More and more businesses are either putting self-service options for customers in place or considering them in their service departments or contact centres... |
 | MARKETING & MEDIA  Image by 123RF Bizcommunity.com's 17 trends for 2017 from BizTrends2017 trend analyst, curator and editor, Louise Marsland... |
 | CONSTRUCTION & ENGINEERING
[Sindy Peters] We interviewed ARRCC director Mark Rielly to find out more about the local interior design industry and some of the projects on which the internationally recognised studio has worked... |
 | MARKETING & MEDIA  Screengrabs from the ad. A sure way to get the attention of many soft suburban people for your marketing pitch is to go the cute route. This has worked very well for Toyota over the years, with Buddy the Boxer endearing himself to people across the country, which can have done the brand no harm at all... |
 | LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT
[Brian Berkman] Not since César Ritz has one family name been as synonymous with quality hospitality as Conrad Hilton's has. For nearly a century, Hilton Hotels & Resorts has been proudly welcoming the world's travellers. |
 | Ultra South Africa took place at the Cape Town Stadium on the 24 February.    
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 | MARKETING & MEDIA  Stassen with 'Blades' - part of the Hero Exhibition that takes place at Open Design. Suné Stassen, festival director for the Open Design Festival, is heavily involved in the country's design education movement. Here, she shares how your business can pick up the baton to take the movement forward... |
 | MARKETING & MEDIA
[Jessica Tennant] Graeme Stiles' interest in performance marketing has led him to start an agency that specialises in SEO, paid media and data... |
| The inspirational life of Nelson Mandela forms the basis for an art collection that show cases the story of a deeply-beloved South African icon. Circa on Jellicoe, one of Johannesburg's urban art galleries, hosted a single private viewing of this collection, namely John Meyer's “Mandela: A Life's Journey”. Held on the 23rd of February 2017, the evening, which was in support of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, allowed guests to enjoy the artworks before they embark on an international tour.    
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 | IT & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
[Eckart Zollner] 2017 promises to be an exciting year in the field of IT and telecommunication as projects and technologies that have been unable to get out of the starting blocks for the last two to three years, take off... |
| [Music] Arcade Content's Kyle Lewis directed No Secrets, the intimate first music video for Pure, the reinvention of Purity Zinhle Mkhize. |
 | TOURISM, TRAVEL & HOSPITALITY  Image by Kaspars Grinvalds According to a report by the W-Hospitality Group, a total of 365 hotel chain development pipelines were reported in Africa in 2016, with 64,231 rooms... |
 | IT & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
[Ilse Burger] Under the theme One Pride, the Samsung Africa Forum 2017 took place on 23 February 2017 at the CTICC in Cape Town... |
 | RETAIL
[Lauren Hartzenberg] As the CEO of the continent's largest online shopping platform, Nigeria-born Chris Folayan knows a thing or two about creating online experiences... |
| LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT  Crowne Plaza Club Room Unlike Sandton which is a jumble of high-rises with little else other than the pulse of finance running through its veins, Rosebank still offers a more human scale environment where top luxury hotels sit cheek by cheek with 70s apartment blocks and corporate headquarters... |
| MARKETING & MEDIA
[Jessica Tennant] Following the announcement of Uber's new interactive entertainment service, provided by Hubble (previously Taxi Media Group), CEO Justin Duveen shares the impact its having on the driver, the rider and the advertiser... |
 | TOURISM, TRAVEL & HOSPITALITY
[Mareike Long] On holidays, we no longer get lost or wander through a foreign city because we have apps assisting us. So, it's important that you're the personal touch that clients are looking for... |
| MARKETING & MEDIA  Ann Nurock Ann Nurock, who normally does the interviewing for us as roving reporter at local and international creative award shows like Cannes Lions, One Show and the Loeries, is also Africa partner for Relationship Audits and Management or RAM's Radar. Here, Nurock shares more about her day job and how Radar clarifies agencies' understanding of their relationships with clients... |
