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 | Insurance company Liberty plans to capture more uninsured young people by issuing free cover for a year in the hope that the clients will understand the importance of insurance. Read more >>
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 | Issued by Grind Mobile Coffee Grind Mobile Experience was once again on the ground at Markex in the Sandton Convention Centre last week, bringing a new product to the market. Read more >>
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 | Broll has been awarded the property management contract for 52 of the 61 properties in the Investec Property Fund portfolio as from 1 July 2014. The total portfolio, valued at R6bn, is spread across South Africa. Read more >>
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 | Issued by PriceCheck PriceCheck CEO, André de Wet, and MTN Group Chief Commercial Officer, Pieter Verkade, have jointly announced a second co-branded app deal, this time for Nigeria. 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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 | SAITEX and Africa's Big Seven (AB7) are ready to welcome visitors from 52 nations at one of the biggest food & beverage and business opportunities expo on the African continent. Read more >>
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 | There is a gap in the market for IT service providers to meet the growing need to implement dedicated green IT budgets, strategies and solutions. Read more >>
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 | The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 10-15% of the global drug supply is fake, in Africa, this may account for up to 30% of medicines in circulation - with these figures ever growing. Read more >>
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 | Jessica Taylor Something you should know about me is that I don't diet, ever. When I think 'diet', I think 'be sad and eat your lettuce'. So I like to refer to my eating plan as a balanced diet that includes everything, in moderation. 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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 | HeadCount's 'Busiest Day of the Year Award' for 2013 in the Super Regional category has been awarded to Gateway Theatre of Shopping, for the tenth consecutive year. During the peak holiday season on 21 December 2013, 152,445 shoppers visited Gateway. Read more >>
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 | Issued by TLC Marketing Worldwide "Care, Connect, Grow, excite your current consumers! You can only break frontiers by being different, challenging yourself, ideas, and selecting rewards that fit your consumer's needs." This was the advice given by Paul Appalsamy, PDI Director of TLC Marketing Worldwide, to attendees at the annual Loyalty and Rewards conference held last week in Johannesburg. Read more >>
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 | Andiswa Maqutu and Ron Derby Woolworths' bid to become one of the southern hemisphere's largest retailers by buying Australia's David Jones was dealt a blow last week when a shareholder vote to approve the deal was delayed by two weeks due to the emergence of billionaire investor Solomon Lew as one of the company's major shareholders. 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 >>
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 | 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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 | Arthur Goldstuck Few technology topics generate as much noise as wearables, mostly to do with brands known for their consumer products, such as Samsung, Sony and Apple. Read more >>
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 | Henry Buell RIXEYVILLE, US: The direct sales industry has changed very little over the last few decades, incorporating new technologies as they have developed, rather than evolving their business practices to capitalise further on existing markets. Read more >>
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: Amazon has unveiled its "Fire Phone," a high-end handset boasting what it claims are "breakthrough technologies" in a move aimed at challenging Apple and Samsung. Read more >>
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 | PARIS, FRANCE: YouTube is planning to block the videos of artists like Adele and the Arctic Monkeys after several record labels refused to sign up to its new subscription service. Read more >>
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 | PARIS, FRANCE: Domino's Pizza refused to cave in to a €30,000 extortion demand by hackers who claimed they had stolen the personal data of 600,000 of its customers. Read more >>
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 | Jan-Jan Joubert Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti has published policy proposals requiring commercial farmers to hand over half their farms to farmworkers. Read more >>
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 | 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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 | Ralph van Niekerk and Nick Pemberton South Africa's exchange control rules require that a South African resident wishing to assign intellectual property to a foreign entity must obtain prior approval from the South African Reserve Bank. Read more >>
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 | Carol Paton The prospect of a tax on mining super-profits and other measures that would see more state intervention in the mining sector remain squarely on the agenda of the African National Congress (ANC) and South African Communist Party (SACP) in light of the protracted platinum strike. Read more >>
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 | Brian Berkman Slack packing, or hiking with someone else transporting your gear and checking into accommodation along the way is gaining popularity with folk who love the great outdoors but not enough to sleep under it. Read more >>
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NOSHCON 2014NOSA - 9 Sep 2014 to 12 Sep 2014 Central Drakensberg EnviroCon 2014Environmental Assurance (Pty) Ltd - 22 Oct 2014 to 24 Oct 2014 Pretoria |
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Abraham Lincoln "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other." Henry Ford "Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success." Wil Ros "Success is not counted by how high you have climbed but by how many people you brought with you." Orison Swett Marden "Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great." |
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