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Designing for digital nomadsIn our top stories this week, Stratcom Branding's Gail Macleod lists the golden rules to consider when designing packaging for digital nomads, and Lemok Group's Lebogang Mokubela weighs in on the Black Friday opportunity for SA retailers. In other news, Woolworths is trialling a recycling vending machine in its Palmyra store in Cape Town, and 'Scotch whisky' is now registered as a certification trademark in South Africa. Elsewhere, PepsiCo's first female CEO Indra Nooyi has stepped down after 12 years at the helm, and Baselworld's CEO René Kamm resigned days after The Swatch Group announced it was pulling out of the annual watch and jewellery trade fair. Last but not least, Clicks celebrates its 50th birthday since launching in Cape Town in 1968, and Fitbit Pay is now available in South Africa. Until next week, enjoy! Lauren Hartzenberg
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| If your business model is still trying to catch up with what millennials want in packaging, you are going to get left behind by a new generation of digital nomads...read |
| | | Over the years, Black Friday has grown by leaps and bounds with more retailers and shopping centres jumping on the bandwagon to offer South African consumers bang for their buck...read |
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| | | | | | | |  | Andy Walker Fitbit Pay is now available in South Africa. The wireless payments service which works through Fitbit's range of wearable devices is now compatible with FNB and RMB VISA bank cards. read | | |  | Baselworld's chief executive René Kamm has announced his resignation, just days after Swiss watchmaker The Swatch Group announced it was pulling out of the annual watch and jewellery trade fair... read | | |  | Naomi Braithwaite A staggering 235m items of unwanted clothing were forecast to be dumped in UK landfill in 2017, while the average American is estimated to bin 81lb (37kg) of used clothing annually... read | |  | The Western Cape, City of Cape Town, Wesgro and its supporting partners have announced the launch of the inaugural Africa Halal Week 2018, which will foster business links, conversations and opportunities across tourism, trade and investment... read | | |  | Stuart Scanlon The Internet of Things (IoT) and its impact on food traceability will be instrumental in addressing everything from world hunger to improving food safety... read | |  | David Di Zhang and Grant Alexander Wilson Genetically modified (GM) foods for human consumption have long been a subject of intense public debate, as well as academic research... read | |  | The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) has registered 'Scotch whisky' as a certification trademark in South Africa, which is the seventh largest Scotch whisky market by volume... read | | |  | Entries for the 2018 Eat Out Woolworths Sustainability Award are now open... read | | |  | Issued By Pyrotec Thermal transfer overprinting (TTO) is a digital printing process that offers an alternative to hot stampers and other traditional analogue printing techniques... read | | |  | The MEC for Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs in KwaZulu-Natal, Sihle Zikalala, says the net is fast closing on dishonest traders... read | | |  | More than 3,000 people flocked to South Africa's first Lego Certified Store that opened in Sandton City recently. Operated by the Great Yellow Brick Co, the store stocks and displays a variety of Lego options, installations... read | |  | This August, Clicks celebrates fifty years of trading since launching in Cape Town in 1968. The health and beauty retailer has since expanded to more than 650 stores and over 500 in-store pharmacies... read | | | |  | Lauren Hartzenberg For but a sliver of land in the Middle East, with a population below 9 million, you'd never guess that Israel has the second largest number of companies on the Nasdaq, after China... read | | | | Tallulah Bankhead "If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner." Dave Barry "It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate." Charlize Theron "You are only as great as the opportunities that are given to you." Sammy Davis, Jr. "The ultimate mystery is one's own self." |
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