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Sharp to demystify the six myths of retailing

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:23:00 +0200

Professor Byron Sharp leads the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute, which conducts serious research and development into how marketing works based on over 80 years of data from top global companies. Join him at South Africa's first ever Retail Advertising Conference, where he will demolish six myths of retailing. Read full story... | Send to a friend

Understand how consumer protection will impact on business

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:53:00 +0200

South African consumers are set to become some of the best protected in the world with the new consumer protection legislation in the pipeline; companies, however, will have to change the way they do business. Read full story... | Send to a friend

Wits University empowers informal traders

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:19:00 +0200

Over a hundred informal traders recently gathered at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg to get more information about registering their businesses. Read full story... | Send to a friend

Training debt counsellors

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:15:00 +0200

In an effort to assist debt counsellors overcome the challenges they are facing, the National Credit Regulator (NCR) and the Banking Association of South Africa (BASA) are currently conducting training sessions for debt counsellors until the end of August 2008. Read full story... | Send to a friend

Serious fun and games for customer service training

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:05:00 +0200

The enterprise is just beginning to scratch the surface of possibilities for putting video game technologies to smart business uses. One is customer service training. Sophisticated systems that can measure subtleties like employee-customer eye contact, for example, can bring a certain amount of scientific order to the art of effective human interaction. Read full story... | Send to a friend

Theatre of tasting tutorials at Stellenbosch Wine Festival

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:24:00 +0200

Learn more about wine and get up close and personal with leading winemakers at the hands-on Wine Magazine Tasting Theatre at this year's Stellenbosch Wine Festival taking place from 31 July - 3 August 2008 at the Paul Roos Centre in Stellenbosch. Read full story... | Send to a friend

KwaZulu-Natal youth to access agri opportunities

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:19:00 +0200

KwaZulu-Natal youths will be able to access more opportunities within the agriculture sector through the provincial Youth in Agriculture Rural Development Forum which was launched on Saturday, 14 June 2008. Read full story... | Send to a friend

Cape cheers new Wine Masters

Tue, 13 May 2008 12:21:00 +0200

Two new graduates were awarded certificates as Cape Wine Masters on 9 May 2008, bringing the number of successful examinations to 67, and the members of the Institute to 62, including three honorary members. Read full story... | Send to a friend

A new Dawn in employee empowerment

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:21:00 +0200

The case for pursuing formal qualification and career development opportunities through virtual education is gathering momentum in business says Teryl Schroenn, CEO at Accsys, a national provider of HR and payroll management software. Read full story... | Send to a friend

Tooling plan to save diminishing industry

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:30:00 +0200

With the state of the tool designing industry in disrepute, the Gauteng Department of Economic Development and other partners have launched the Gauteng Tooling Initiative (GTI) to recapitalise the dwindling industry. Read full story... | Send to a friend