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 | The creative and technical support supplier to the event and advertising industries, Kilowatt AV, has merged with Sight and Sound - an audio visual, lighting, staging and video rental specialist - to establish Kilowatt Investments Holdings. Read more >>
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 | The Toolmaking Association of South Africa (TASA) Gauteng convened in Midrand earlier this month for its Annual General Meeting (AGM), at which newly re-elected chairman Vusi Mkhize highlighted the revitalisation of the training capability for toolmakers as possibly the biggest single success story in South Africa's training history over the past decade. Read more >>
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 | Johnson Controls, the global multi-industrial company with established core businesses in the automotive, building, and energy storage industries, has announced that Corporate Knights has again put the company on its 2014 Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations Index. Read more >>
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 | Mark Allix Hulamin‚ the aluminium products manufacturer‚ says further cost-cutting and efficiency gains in the year to December will position the group for growth and improved profitability. Read more >>
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 | Construction company Wilson Bayly Holmes Ovcon (WBHO) reported a 20.2% decline in diluted headline earnings per share (HEPS) from 729.0c a year ago to 581.5c for the six months to December . Read more >>
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 | Nick Hedley PPC's chief executive, Ketso Gordhan says the group is looking at concluding one or two big deals in Africa in a bid to double earnings by 2018. Read more >>
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 | The size of a chicken mattered so much to a Durban customer he allegedly attacked the manager of a chicken outlet with a panga. Read more >>
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 | Nick Hedley PPC's chief executive Ketso Gordhan took a R1m pay cut and his top 60 managers' remuneration was frozen in order to hike the wages of the cement manufacturer's 1‚200 lowest earners. Read more >>
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 | Max Gebhardt Cas Coovadia‚ the managing director of the Banking Association of South Africa‚ has been appointed the caretaker chief executive of Business Unity South Africa (Busa) while the organisation looks for a new incumbent. Read more >>
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 | Liquor group Distell has reported a 21% rise in diluted headline earnings per share from 415.8c a year ago to 503.0c for the six months to December . Read more >>
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 | Zeenat Moorad The extent of JD Group's financial woes was revealed last week when SA's biggest listed furniture retailer reported a loss for the first six months of the year. Read more >>
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 | RCL Foods (RCL)‚ formerly known as Rainbow Chicken‚ on Wednesday (19 February) reported a sharp drop in its interim diluted headline earnings per share from 17,3c to just 4.7c. Read more >>
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 | David Furlonger Mercedes-Benz SA (MBSA) overcame a crippling industry strike and general market slowdown in new vehicle sales to post a 28.7% revenue increase last year. Read more >>
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 | China is exploiting Africa's resources just like European colonisers did, with disastrous effects for the environment, acclaimed primatologist Jane Goodall told AFP. Read more >>
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 | A Department of Trade and Industry audit of arms deal offsets has found the number of jobs created as a result of the multi-billion rand deal could not be verified despite promises that many thousands would arise, adding credence to longstanding scepticism over offsets. Read more >>
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: WhatsApp was launched five years ago as a shot at doing to text messaging what Skype had done to telephone calls. Read more >>
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 | Zeenat Moorad Truworths will report its half-year financial results on Thursday (20 February), and is likely to highlight the deteriorating credit environment, owing to rising levels of consumer indebtedness. Read more >>
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 | BARCELONA, SPAIN - When the next super-fast mobile network launches in 2020 you will be able to download a high-definition movie in about a second. Read more >>
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 | MADRID, SPAIN: Samsung aims to take the mobile world by storm by almost certainly unveiling a new Galaxy S5 smartphone with rumoured Apple-fighting features such as a fingerprint scanner and larger screen. Read more >>
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 | PSA Peugeot Citroen agreed to a capital tie-up with China's Dongfeng and the French state on Tuesday (18 February), a source said, ending the reign of one of France's oldest industrial dynasties. Read more >>
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 | NEW YORK, USA: Soft-drink manufacturer Coca-Cola reported a dip in fourth-quarter profits after lower-than-expected sales while its outlook for the rest of this year has disappointed analysts. Read more >>
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 | Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa has invited the public and interested parties to submit comments on the draft Bio-prospecting, Access and Benefit Sharing (BABS) amendment regulations. Read more >>
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 | The Gauteng MEC for Infrastructure Development, Qedani Mahlangu, says there is a need to develop policies that address issues of energy security, social equity and environmental sustainability. Read more >>
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 | President Jacob Zuma says he was touched by IFP Member of Parliament, Mario Oriani-Ambrosini's impassioned plea, to have marijuana decriminalised. Read more >>
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 | President Jacob Zuma has decribed Government's Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) as a success story which has benefitted more than 3.5m people since it was introduced in 2004. Read more >>
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 | South Africa will for the next five years enter a new "radical phase" where policies will have to focus more on economic transformation to address poverty, unemployment and inequality, claims President Jacob Zuma. Read more >>
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 | The adoption of the Special Economic Zones (SEZ) Bill 2013 will be a significant milestone for the National Development Plan (NDP) and will support broader-based industrial growth says Trade and Industry Minister, Rob Davies. Read more >>
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 | Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) says the importance of collecting accurate data cannot be overstated, as it remains a vital pillar in Africa's development. Read more >>
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