While Africa is blessed with an abundance of mineral resources and raw materials, the continent contributes less than 1% to global manufacturing figures. 26 Sep 2007
Here's a concept in banking that brings bank and store together - so you can buy clothing and open a bank account at the same time. 26 Sep 2007
The Asics Gel-Nimbus 9 has been selected as the Editors' Choice shoe in a recent review done by gear editors, Lisa de Speville and Sean Falconer in the October issue of Runner's World magazine. 26 Sep 2007
KWV took home a handful of medals, as well as a trophy, from one of South Africa's leading competitions, the Michelangelo International Wine Awards, on 15 September 2007. 26 Sep 2007
South African lawmakers gave their final seal of approval on Thursday to legislation which will make it harder for smokers to indulge their habit in the open air, at home or in their cars. 25 Sep 2007
Gooi.co.za is the newly launched 'one product, one price, and one day' website. Every day at 12am, a new product will appear on the website, and consumers have either 24 hours to purchase that product that will never be repeated at that price ever again, or until the product is sold out. 25 Sep 2007
Less than a year after its much-ballyhooed rollout of Vista, Microsoft is giving in to the demands of manufacturers and business users who want to switch back to the XP operating system (OS). 25 Sep 2007
In yet another break with tradition, this year's Nederburg Auction, taking place in spring for the first time in the 33-year history of the event, will be featuring two keynote speakers. The managing director of the Rioja Wine Exporters' Association, Tom Perry, will be joined by Mutle Mogase to address the guests on Saturday, 29 September 2007. 25 Sep 2007
It's officially the end of the party for papsak wine, following the publication of amendments to the Liquor Products Act of 1989. 25 Sep 2007
Cape Town-based dairy, Fair Cape, has converted all its milk products to free range and become the first South African supplier of free range milk. 25 Sep 2007
Parmalat is splashing out with PureJoy Light, natural blended fruit juice with all the taste of a pure fruit juice, but with fewer kilojoules. The new range comes in four flavours: Cranberry Cherry, Peach Apricot, Ruby Grapefruit and Mango Orange. 21 Sep 2007
YouNeverCall Inc., online cellphone superstore, has announced a US$10,000 prize award for the first cellphone call placed from the moon. This follows on the coattails of Google's announcement of US$30 million (total) in prize money for landing a privately funded craft on the moon by 31 December 2014. 21 Sep 2007
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
There's still a lot of back and forth: Offline factors influence online activity, and vice versa, for a merging of the online and the offline worlds. In an audio podcast discussion, as well as the accompanying BriefingsDirect multimedia video podcast, I helped plumb the depths of Enquiro's findings and then vetted them through the experiences of B2B search engine ZoomInfo. 21 Sep 2007
Rather than travel down legal roads, a growing number of companies are trying to engage in a dialogue with their online constituents. Many are setting up their own message boards and blogs to gather customer feedback. In addition to putting the software in place, companies hire full-time or part-time monitors, individuals who examine the comments and report back to management what customers are saying. 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
The new ZOOM summer website launched at the beginning of September, revealing the season's hottest trends in footwear. Created by award-winning design agency Bittersuite, the site reflects the brand's feminine approach to summer with sun-kissed colours, vibrant design and whimsical details. 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
Dell's XPS desktop has had an impressive run. Like the Dodge Viper, it blended many aspects of a high-end gaming system with the quality and controls of a volume-based PC company. While incredibly powerful, the XPS is a little raw when compared with Hewlett-Packard's Blackbird. If XPS is a Dodge Viper, the Blackbird is more like a Corvette in that it is both very powerful and incredibly refined, writes Rob Enderle of TechNewsWorld. 20 Sep 2007
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