Feedback Food Redistribution (Feedback) and Fruit & Veg City have joined forces to fight hunger in South Africa with the launch of the ‘Care 2 Carry' campaign, and customers are being asked to help. Shopping bags, designed by pupils from the Luzuko Primary School in Guguletu, are being sold at all Fruit & Veg City stores nationwide, and R2 will be donated to Feedback for each bag sold. 23 Jul 2008
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. 23 Jul 2008
Small businesses generally buy their IT just as Joe Public does - at a computer retail store. 23 Jul 2008
Lorraine Schuit, franchisee of Ola Milky Lane Pavilion in Durban, has scooped her second award in less than a year. 23 Jul 2008
Winners of the SA Terroir Wine Awards were announced at the Meerendal Wine Estate near Cape Town recently, and female winemakers distinguished themselves by winning the categories for the top shiraz, pinotage and viognier. 23 Jul 2008
South Africa and the European Union are to strengthen relations and address shared bilateral, regional and global interests at the SA-EU Summit that kicks off on Friday, 25 July 2008, in Bordeaux, France. 23 Jul 2008
A group of informal traders have received their certificates for completing the Grow Your Business course run by Wits University in partnership with the City of Johannesburg. 23 Jul 2008
Apple did everything right in its third quarter and posted robust earnings and revenue figures that bore that out. Like many other companies, however, Apple cautioned investors that the next quarter won't be as good as previously expected - and that bit of sobering news caused stock prices to plummet. 23 Jul 2008
USA - The company that pioneered the concept of skipping past television commercials is now introducing a new kind of TV-based advertising. TiVo has joined forces with Amazon to create an interactive system that will let viewers buy products featured on TV shows - right from their remotes. TiVo Product Purchase will present options on the screen and give users the opportunity to order without interrupting the program. 23 Jul 2008
The Renault-Nissan Alliance is to invest R1 billion to upgrade Nissan's manufacturing plant in Rosslyn, outside Pretoria. 23 Jul 2008
A recent report from US company, Integrated Media Measurement, Inc. (IMMI), based on data from 3,000 panellists in six major markets, finds that though multi-platform advertising increases reach over individual platform advertising, the effect is not simply additive. 23 Jul 2008
Biscuit producer Bakers, which for over 150 years has brought the Bakersman into South African homes, has relaunched the brand with a complete packaging makeover. 22 Jul 2008
India, South Africa and Argentina, key members of NAMA-11 alliance at World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva on Monday, 21 July 2008, rejected a move by developed countries to limit the flexibility on tariffs and imports of developing countries to protect their domestic industry and farm sector. 22 Jul 2008
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. 22 Jul 2008
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday? When is the right time to send an email? That may be the right question, but is the answer what you are really looking for? This is probably the most widely asked question that email marketers will face. 22 Jul 2008
Enterprises using certain kinds of open source software may be exposing themselves to serious security risks, according to a study from Fortify Software. The study, which focused primarily on non-commercially supported OSS, found many packages have no ground rules for reporting bugs and do not adequately inform users about how to use the applications safely. 22 Jul 2008
Turned away by traditional banks, more people are flocking to online peer lending sites, including Prosper.com and Zopa.com. Meanwhile, the market for these sites is in the middle of growth spurt, which is expected to continue for the foreseeable future. 22 Jul 2008
Small businesses differentiate themselves through specialisation and customer service, and in tough economic times, they can't afford to sacrifice either. In fact, small-business owners should focus their resources on those areas. 22 Jul 2008
Two people were arrested for selling counterfeit tickets outside Newlands Stadium before the opening of the Vodacom Challenge soccer match in Cape Town with a further seven arrested for being in possession of such tickets inside the stadium. 22 Jul 2008
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange, in partnership with the FTSE Group, has launched the FTSE/JSE Shariah Top 40 Index, which will open up many opportunities for those interested in Shariah compliant investment. 22 Jul 2008
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