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Woolworths Holdings Limited (WHL) has announced its Good Business Journey (GBJ) goals for 2020... Read | Toy Kingdom has recently announced the conclusion of the acquisition of local company Intencity Entertainment, along with the South African franchise rights to US-based Build-A-Bear Workshop... Read | Famous Brands has acquired 100% of the business of Lamberts Bay Foods (LBF), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the JSE-listed Oceana Group (Oceana). Read | Pioneer Foods recently joined forces with Energy Partners to roll out a national solar programme, which entails the installation of large commercial solar systems with a combined size of over 2531 kilowatt peak (kWp) at five of Pioneer's manufacturing facilities... Read | Sarah Britten Social media can be retail brand building - and sales - gold. Just look at the case of the Chewbacca mask that Candace Payne bought from Kohl's last week... Read | Louise Marsland I think I've discovered my Best New Product of the Year for 2016 already: a cat collar that makes your cat 'talk' back... Read |
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 | A doll collection that aims to inspire young and old to journey into the world of the creative imagination, has been launched by Malaville Toys... read | |  | Nederburg's natural sweet wine Eminence has won a trophy at the International Wine Challenge in London... read | |
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 | The $108bn megabrewer merger inched closer to completion on Tuesday, when the European Commission granted conditional approval to Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) for the acquisition of SABMiller... read | | |
 | A new flower show has launched in Cape Town, South Africa, for 27-30 October 2016... read | | |
 | Property investment is one of the biggest game changers transforming the Cape Town Central City... read | |  | Alistair Anderson Rebosis Property Fund, the JSE's first listed, black-managed real-estate investment trust (reit), on Monday, 23 May, announced a watershed R6bn transaction that will substantially increase the group's exposure to high-quality retail assets, and significantly bolster its scale and liquidity... read | | |
 | Issued by Clover Tetra Pak, in partnership with Feed SA, has initiated a campaign called Milk for Change to fight undernourishment among South Africa's larger communities and educate consumers about the nutritional benefits of long-life milk... read | |  | Issued by TFG (The Foschini Group) Radio station Smile FM was on a mission to spread warmth this winter by encouraging their listeners to donate R12 for those less fortunate to spend a night off the streets at The Haven Night Shelter... read | |  | Issued by The Clarion Group Clarion Retail, as a supplier to Woolworths, was delighted to be involved in the recent Project Flamingo Golf Day held at Steenberg Golf Course to raise funds for breast cancer awareness... read | | |
 | A new study from Juniper Research found that whilst the digital retail marketing industry will continue to be dominated by advertising revenues, coupon contributions will see strong growth, driven in part by the rise of Bluetooth beacons... read | | |
 | Lee Naik Since The Mall of Africa, South Africa's biggest single-phase shopping mall development, opened its doors on 28 April, it has dominated social media chat lately, as much for its promise as its problems... read | |  | Issued by SID Instant EFT Leading South African payment gateways have partnered with secure online payment service SID Instant EFT to release the new and improved SID 2.0 to e-commerce businesses across the country... read | | |
 | Tiger Brands says drought has caused severe inflationary pressures that will see consumers eating smaller portions of staple foods. It is likely to affect profits in future... read | |  | The Coca-Cola Company said Monday that it was forced to cut back production of its popular sodas in Venezuela due to the shortage of sugar in the politically riven country. read | |
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 | Issued by Fishwicks Fishwicks launches Automatic Displays System, Display Flash in South Africa... read | |
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 | Marc Hasenfuss Taste Holdings - which mixes interests in fast-food and jewellery - is chilled about its roll-out plans for coffee store brand Starbucks... read | | |
 | BDpro Staff Writer Ascendis Health announced two acquisitions in Europe on Tuesday. The group is buying Cyprus-based pharmaceutical company Remedica for up to 335-million euros and sports nutrition company Scitec for €170m... read | | |
 | In an interview with Business Day TV conducted on Monday, Phil Roux, CEO of Pioneer Foods, speaks about the company's half-year results, which showed... read | | |
 | More than 1,500 professional decision makers are expected to arrive at Cape Town's CTICC on 8 and 9 June, 2016, for Source Africa, which will feature more than 180 exhibitors interested in expanding their exports... read | | |
 | Gisele Gurgel Long life milk is democratising nutrition for many Africans, because it has qualities beneficial to transportation and storage, while it hurdles a major continental challenge: electricity supply... read | |  | Issued by Pyrotec In a retail landscape saturated with marketing messages, many consumers are tuning out communication that is impersonal and sales-focused in favour of brand voices that are open, honest and real... read | | |
 | Colleen Goko The competition commission is coming a-knocking at grocery retailers' doors once again, and it has a number of uncomfortable questions to ask... read | |  | Apple faces a roadblock in its quest to open stores in India after the finance minister decided it must comply with tough local sourcing rules, a report said Wednesday, days after a visit by chief executive Tim Cook. read | | |
 | According to recent findings from BMi Research, the RTD fruit juice has continued to grow in volume despite tough economic conditions... read | | |
 | SNAPnSAVE, a Cape Town based start-up that gives shoppers cash back on everyday shopping items, simply for snapping their till slip, has grown to 130,000 users and paid back over R500,000 in cash. read | | ![[Biz Takeouts Podcast] 175: Agency focus with Havas Boondoggle](https://biz-file.com/c/1605/344375-120x120.jpg?2) | On the latest episode of Biz Takeouts Marketing and Media Radio show host Warren Harding spoke to Pieter Goiris... read | | |
 | Massmart plans to open 13 new stores this year, seven of which are already operating, CEO Guy Hayward said at the retailer's annual general meeting... read | |  | The East Rand Mall has had a R460m cash injection by the organisation's partners Redefine Properties, Vukile Property Fund, and JHI... read | | |
 | Nicky Smith Massmart CEO Guy Hayward expects SA's drought-driven food price inflation to accelerate further before it starts to slow towards the end of 2016 and into early 2017... read | | |  | Pizza Hut celebrates opening of restaurant in Tanzania, its 100th country, with special delivery to summit of Mt Kilimanjaro... read | | | More Africa | |
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 | Without doubt, today's ever-quickening cycle of change is unprecedented. Change today is faster, more erratic, more elemental than ever before... read | |  | John Sanei Forget about change management, we are squarely in the transformation age and with it we need to apply transformational management... read | |
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