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 | Asha Speckman Absa's R700-million exposure to the "buy a new car for R699" scheme means that it, Standard Bank and Nedbank could face a mountain of bad debt. Read more >>
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 | Nick Hedley South Africa's burgeoning craft beer industry has been thrust onto the global map with a Stellenbosch-based brewer winning the best lager prize at the 2014 Global Craft Beer Award contest in Germany. Read more >>
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 | Ken Reynolds The recent acquisition by Shanghai Zendai of 1,600ha of vacant land between OR Tambo International Airport and Sandton, and the subsequent unveiling of the global investor's plans to build the "New York" of Africa, understandably caused quite a stir in South African commercial property quarters. Read more >>
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 | Issued by Striata SA Claire Watson interviewed Alison Treadaway, MD at customer communication management specialist, Striata, on the basics of this legislation, and how it will affect businesses and the communications industry in South Africa... Read more >>
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 | Mike Saunders Andy Haldane, Executive Director for Financial Stability at the Bank of England in tackling regulation uses the analogy of a dog catching a Frisbee... Essentially, a simple approach is effective... Read more >>
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 | The digital era has brought about with it a new Zeitgeist, that of shopping online as a convenient, simple and stress free experience. No need to stand in long queues to pay or to wait so we can try on the items we simply must have. Read more >>
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 | Issued by World Wide Creative The South African Gold Coin Exchange and its retail division, The Scoin Shop, have officially launched brand new websites, both designed and built by digital marketing agency, World Wide Creative... Read more >>
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 | South Africa's young business talent from various business sectors were acknowledged and celebrated at the 2014 Standard Bank Rising Star Awards, which took place at the Hilton Sandton in Johannesburg... Read more >>
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 | When it comes to seafood purchasing decisions, sustainability is still not a major influential factor and what's more, 44% of respondents don't question anything when buying seafood. Read more >>
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 | Paddy Hartdegen Cape Town may well be the most congested city in South Africa but you are most likely to be caught in a traffic jam on the Ben Schoeman motorway between Johannesburg and Pretoria. Read more >>
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 | Statistics SA figures show that the producer price index (PPI) for final manufactured goods - considered headline PPI - came in at 8.1% year on year (y/y) in June after increasing by 8.7% y/y in May. Read more >>
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 | Issued by Rocket Creative The Rocket Creative crew has been on a design and development offensive of late. One of their most recent releases is that of an innovative, ultra-lightweight and portable free-standing product merchandising unit named the GAMMA FSU... Read more >>
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 | Arthur Goldstuck The most unlikely player in the South African mobile market is working with Google to build a version of its Android mobile operating system that takes account of local needs. Read more >>
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Tetra Pak, through a €65 million investment, has increased the capacity of its packaging material plant in Brazil by 70% to 22 billion packs per annum, demonstrating growing demand for its environmentally friendly packs. Read more >>
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 | The Consumer Protection Act (CPA) of 2008 contains several provisions dealing with various marketing strategies, including bait marketing, trade coupons, promotional competitions, and loyalty programmes. Read more >>
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 | Mobile research technology, ovatoyou, has launched a new app that invites consumers to share their thinking, or images of their surroundings from the palm of their hand... Read more >>
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 | The middle-class or middle market in South Africa of LSM 4-7 offers the perceptive marketer a wealth of opportunity, as this class begins to grow in disposable income... Read more >>
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 | iFix is expanding once again as it unveils its one stop Apple and Samsung repair kiosk at the V&A Waterfront, which will trade seven days a week from 9am-9pm Read more >>
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Furniture group Steinhoff International (SHF) on Monday, 4 August 2014, announced that it had raised R18.2bn in equity capital‚ before expenses‚ the net proceeds of which will be used to further strengthen its balance sheet through its rights offer. Read more >>
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 | Although it is estimated that irrigation alone could increase output by up to 50%, one of the biggest challenges facing the Kenyan agriculture industry is outdated technology... Read more >>
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 | Russell Southwood The speed with which consumers change their handset loyalties is dizzying. In this article I look at the kind of devices that might dominate African markets over the next three... Read more >>
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 | Integrated online ticketing service, Webtickets recently introduced NFC's 'Tap-n-Go' technology as an effective event management solution. Read more >>
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: The surge in Internet-connected devices, like TVs, refrigerators, thermostats, door locks and more, has opened up huge opportunities for cyber-attacks because of weak security, researchers say. Read more >>
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 | MUMBAI, INDIA: India's top e-commerce company Flipkart said it had raised $1bn (60bn rupees) in funds as it battles US company Amazon for supremacy in the hyper-competitive local online buying market. Read more >>
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 | SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA: Samsung Electronics said it would postpone the roll-out of its new smartphone based on Tizen, a home-grown operating system aimed at breaking away from Google's Android system. Read more >>
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 | BRUSSELS, BELGIUM: The European Commission has cleared Apple's $3bn purchase of US headphone manufacturer and music streaming business Beats despite Bose lodging court papers claiming patent infringements. Read more >>
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 | Government has announced another delay in the implementation of carbon tax and it is now due to come into effect on 1 January 2016. To many this has come as a huge relief as carbon tax is seen as an unnecessary burden on business and economic growth in South Africa. Read more >>
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 | A statement issued by the Right2Know Campaign and Section 16 seeks to intervene urgently in a secrecy application brought by SANRAL and Protea Parkways Consortium (PPC). Read more >>
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 | PRETORIA: The Thai automotive industry has expressed interest in partnering and forming joint ventures with South African companies, says the Department of Trade and Industry (dti). Read more >>
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 | Carol Paton The South African National Roads Agency Ltd (Sanral) will ask the Western Cape High Court next week to grant it a secrecy application, which will allow it keep details of the proposed tolling of the N1 and N2 highways confidential. Read more >>
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 | Rod Baker Mauritius is just a few hours away and a great destination for the family, or yourself if you just want to get away from it all. So how do you get there? Air Mauritius. Read more >>
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 | Brian Berkman There is so much added value for guests staying at MannaBay that the room rate is great value when compared with run-of-the-mill five-star establishments. Read more >>
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 | Ilse van den Berg Probably the worst thing after a missing a flight is catching one of those dreaded 6am flights from Cape Town to Jozi or Durbs. Not only does it mean you have to at least be at the airport by 5:20am (if you checked in online), but if you live as far as Fish Hoek or Brackenfell, you have to get up at like 3:30am. No one should have to do that! Read more >>
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 Dr Brian Jude's Psychology of customer service training seminar - Johannesburg and Cape Town. Book now. Read more >>Decorex JoburgThebe Reed Exhibitions - 6 Aug 2014 to 10 Aug 2014 Johannesburg |
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William Pollard "Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow." Henry Ford "Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success." Dale Carnegie "The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way." Zig Ziglar "You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great." Emile Zola "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." |
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