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Airtel wins at Ghana Telecoms Awards

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 12:20:00 +0200

Airtel Ghana has been recognised with two awards for its Customer Care and Mobile Broadband Services respectively. The awards, Best Customer Care and Best Mobile Broadband Service of the Year were handed to Airtel at the 3rd Ghana Telecoms Awards 2013 organised by Mobile World magazine at a ceremony in Accra, Ghana.
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Experiential Marketing - the contagious idea

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:34:00 +0200

Companies are defined by what they are selling. Products come off shelves, cars get driven off lots, SMSs get sent and social media is accessed from the edgy new phones people upgrade to... What is it about the brand you picked off the shelf, signed vehicle finance for or the network you subscribe to that defined your choice? The experience. Your experience. How you felt planning your purchase and how you feel about that decision after you'd done it because of what you had taken home.
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Ghana to get Vida e Caffé stores

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:41:00 +0200

What the Cape Town Vida e Caffé franchise calls its "big push this year" will see the operation exporting its concept coffee shops to Ghana.
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Seeing beyond the stereotypes

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:14:00 +0200

More than half of Africa's one billion population has a mobile phone - and not just for talking. The power of telephony is forging a new enterprise culture, from banking to agriculture to healthcare. Africa has experienced an incredible boom in mobile phone use.
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DHL Express triples network in sub-Saharan Africa

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 12:28:00 +0200

DHL Express, the global international express services provider, has expanded its network of DHL Service Points in sub-Saharan Africa from the initial 300 to over 1 000, in just a few short months.
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A mobile Africa: innovation is key

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:07:00 +0200

2012 saw the BuzzCity network grow by 67% with over 210.8 billion ads served across the globe and this extensive growth in mobile usage is certain to continue as we move through 2013. Recent forecasts from Cisco revealed that the number of mobile devices will tip seven billion in 2013, outnumbering the human population, thanks to growth in developing areas, such as Asia, the Pacific and Africa.
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Vodafone forces capped broadband services on subscribers

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:29:00 +0200

Vodafone Ghana's contentious capped fixed broadband services commenced on Wednesday, 28 November 2012, for all new Vodafone subscribers.
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Glo Ghana loses subscribers

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:20:00 +0200

Glo Ghana has recorded its first loss in subscribers after five months of operations in the West African country.
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SABMiller taking Chibuku beer to rest of Africa

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 10:35:00 +0200

SABMiller has taken its traditional African beer brand‚ Chibuku - which is manufactured using either maize or sorghum - into ten other continental countries‚ a move the company says is motivated by its "affordability" and "product innovation" strategies.
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Barclays, Absa to combine African operations

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 11:41:00 +0200

Barclays Bank and its subsidiary, Absa, say they are engaged in negotiations to combine the majority of the Barclays Africa operations.
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