Expecting more than 12 000 visitors this year, the sixth annual Stellenbosch Wine Festival will take place from 31 July to 3 August at the town's Paul Roos Centre. 22 May 2008
Modern consumers are online, on-air, and on the go. This was one of the dominant focuses at the recent 42nd World Congress of the International Advertising Association. So how should advertisers reach them? 22 May 2008
Users can expect a great deal of activity and change within the mobile and wireless/ digital lifestyle space in 2008. 22 May 2008
A recent survey finds that the majority of shoppers from around the world are expecting technology to make their shopping a great deal easier in the future - and that future, they reckon, is just around the corner. 22 May 2008
Appletiser is a household name in South Africa and abroad. Created in 1965 by Edmond Lombardi, a farmer in the Western Cape region of SA, it is now available in over 35 countries the world over - but achieving global status is not the only feat this South African brand's only boast. 22 May 2008
Shareholders of SA's largest food and beverage group, Tiger Brands, will again be penalised for its misdemeanours — to the tune of nearly 34c per share in first-half profit — after subsidiary Adcock Ingram Critical Care admitted to bid rigging, for which it has agreed to pay a R53,5m fine. 22 May 2008
Logitech has launched its Pure-Fi Mobile speaker system which aims to transform low-fidelity mobile-phone audio into high-fidelity, stereophonic sound - wirelessly. 22 May 2008
The International Marketing Council (IMC) of South Africa, custodian of Brand South Africa, has launched MediaClubSouthAfrica.com, a web-based media service for all who want to track the country's progress and achievements in the build-up to the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and beyond. 21 May 2008
It is certainly agreed by all fashion pundits that it is simply not enough to have a range of pretty garments grace skinny models that wander down a ramp show at any one of the many consumer interfacing fashion shows abounding in South Africa, in order to be a success in the fashion industry. 21 May 2008
Within weeks of its dual trophy win at a prestigious Belgian awards, Stellenbosch-based Spier Wines has won three gold medals at two of London's largest world wine awards. 21 May 2008
All these products are of crucial importance to the poor, and although there is actually no shortage of supply, the prices inflation is putting all of them out of the reach of the very poor. 21 May 2008
Canderel takes Gold at Cape Town's GFW and serves over 15,000 hot beverages. 21 May 2008
The latest Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) study, conducted by the UCT Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) based at the UCT Graduate School of Business, has found that more South African youth are developing the confidence and potential to become entrepreneurship superstars. 21 May 2008
According to a new analysis from Scarborough Research, six% of all consumers are classified as Digital Savvy nationally, but Austin (TX) adults are almost twice as likely as the national average to be in this leading edge consumer segment. 21 May 2008
When an e-commerce startup talks about upending the business model on which Amazon and eBay and other e-tail giants have built billion-dollar businesses, it's clear it doesn't lack ambition. 21 May 2008
Consumer foods and healthcare products group Tiger Brands has reported a 15% increase in headline earnings per share to 756.6 cents for the six-month period ended March. 21 May 2008
Retail group Pick n Pay has revised upwards its headline earnings for the year ended February 2008. 21 May 2008
Video game consoles are simple: You buy a machine, look for games made for that machine, and play them. PC gaming is a different story; it's often hard to tell if the game you want to buy will work on your computer. Advanced Micro Devices's (AMD) new Game initiative is aimed at simplifying the process by telling a PC buyer whether or not the machine has what it takes to play a typical computer game. 20 May 2008
A grassroots campaign to plant trees around the globe has announced that it is raising its target from one billion trees to seven billion trees. 20 May 2008
Up-fronting of insurance recognition or a massive increase in insurance income could have boosted earnings. 20 May 2008
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