News

The unwritten rules of consumer-marketer interaction on the Internet's social media have recently been fire-tested and there's something to be learnt out of this experience for every marketer. 21 Sep 2007

As wine tourism becomes an increasingly important driver of the local economy, generating well over R5 billion in annual revenue, wineries are being urged to enter the 2007 Great Wine Capitals Global Network Best Of Awards. 21 Sep 2007

African countries that rely on funding and fail to establish sustainable programs will have problems when - not so much if - donor funding dries up. 21 Sep 2007

Company Reports Solid Financial Performance with Significant Strengthening of R&D Pipeline 21 Sep 2007

The 2007 lineup of the Nedbank Cape Winemakers Guild Auction to be held in Somerset West on Saturday, 6 October, has excelled at a blind tasting by Wine Spectator in New York, with 25 wines attaining the venerable score of 90 points or more in its infamous 100-point scale. 20 Sep 2007

Holidays are a big gift to small businesses who know how to tap into seasonal spending spikes. According to a recent Advertising.com forecast, the 2007 holiday buying season will be strong. The holiday season no longer starts in the fourth quarter of the year. Consumers are beginning their shopping earlier and earlier. 20 Sep 2007

As the global warming debate picks up, Virgin Atlantic is set to launch a jumbo jet with a biofuel blend powering one of its four General Electric (GE) engines. 19 Sep 2007

A Limpopo delegation has jetted off to the world's biggest beer festival, the Oktoberfest in Germany, to learn the secret of its success. 19 Sep 2007

Klûk CGDT, the partnership of Malcolm Klûk and Christiaan Gabriel du Toit, will be featured in this year's Nederburg Auction Spring/Summer collection showing at Paarl on 29 September. The fashion show will mark the grand finale to the auction, in which 150 top name wine labels will come under the hammer of Stephan Welz. 18 Sep 2007

Marcel Weickl, long-standing employee of the CN Business Furniture Group, has been appointed to the position of national product development manager. 18 Sep 2007

The Zimbabwe government has made a spectacular u-turn on a decision to freeze wages and salaries after the country's main labour union threatened two days of strikes on 19 and 20 September. 18 Sep 2007

What does a leggy fashionista and a wardrobe-challenged over-conservative executive have in common? Why, shoes of course. 17 Sep 2007

Good service prototypes appeal to the emotions and avoid drawing attention to features, costs, and applications that can clutter the conversation and derail the excitement factor. Storytelling, vignettes, cartoons, amateur videos - all are low-budget tools that bypass the intellectual "gristmill" and go straight to the heart. 17 Sep 2007

With the number of cardiac patients expected to rise by 34% over the next four years, cardiologists are facing a dramatic increase in the number of people that require treatment, a figure which is set to double by 2017. 16 Sep 2007

Global research has recently exposed a positive link between the quality and quantity of lighting and people's health. 14 Sep 2007

A recent study has shown that one-year mortality rates for acute myocardial infarction (AMI, i.e. a heart attack) increase when treatment by a primary angioplasty is delayed. 14 Sep 2007

President Robert Mugabe's main propaganda arm, the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation, is in crisis following massive staff resignations, New Zimbabwe.com has revealed – 111 staff have left in the past nine months. 14 Sep 2007

General Motors South Africa (GMSA) sold 8,238 new vehicles in August with passenger vehicles topping the list at 4,027, followed by 3,952 Light Commercial Vehicles (LCV) and 259 trucks. 13 Sep 2007