Damco, the new combined brand of the A P Moller - Maersk Group's logistics activities, will open an office in Maputo, Mozambique on 15 December 2009 to improve presence and service levels in South East Africa. It has been operating for the past eighteen months from its existing office in Beira, providing support to exporters and importers in the land-locked countries of Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia. 4 Dec 2009
Stuart Queen has taken over the reins as group chief executive officer of Seardel Investment Corporation from Walter Simeoni who has retired. 4 Dec 2009
British American Tobacco (BAT) SA is fighting for its constitutional right to market cigarettes. 4 Dec 2009
Meadowlands Classique Multi-Purpose Cream and Meadowlands Delight Confectionery Topping have been re-launched by Unilever Foodsolutions in a fresh, bright new slimline pack with a twist top. 4 Dec 2009
Following the first of a series of Food Advisory Day seminars, which started on 28 October 2009, the seminars have been extended to Cape Town and Johannesburg as well. Hosted by eThekwini municipality's health department in KwaZulu-Natal, the seminar addressed measures that seek to improve the level of food safety and to ensure that the formal food sector complies with the regulations and the requirement related to food safety. 4 Dec 2009
The Trade Route Mall in Lenasia, south of Johannesburg, which opened three years ago, has completed Phase Two of its expansion on 3 December 2009. 4 Dec 2009
Burgundian chef Grégory Czarnecki, with a decade's wealth of experience from working in some of the finest Michelin star restaurants in France, is the chef at the newly opened Waterkloof Wine Estate's restaurant. 4 Dec 2009
The first worldwide Terra Madre day, to celebrate locally produced food that is good, clean and fair, will be held internationally on Thursday 10 December 2009. The event is organised by Slow Food, a 20-year-old organisation started in opposition to mass-produced fast food. 4 Dec 2009
Mi-Fone has announced the launch of innovative embedded SIM mobile handset, done in conjunction with an unnamed African GSM Operator. The state-of-the-art handset has a SIM card embedded at factory level, protecting the GSM carriers from people unlocking the phone, as well as enabling cost savings on expensive SIM card packaging. The phone number is also conveniently located on the box and enables efficient logistics and supply chain inventory management. Additionally the Embedded SIM initiative guarantees no more lost or stolen SIMs. 4 Dec 2009
Simba is launching a new competition, ‘What's Your Lekker Flavour?', where contestants send their lekker flavour suggestion and the inspiration for the flavour along with their name, address and contact details. The winner gets R200 000 in cash and 1% of sales of the winning flavour. Entries close on the 28 February 2010. 3 Dec 2009
The official opening of the Bloemfontein based Homsek Dairy's UHT (Long Life Milk) factory comes as a culmination of a true partnership between Homsek Dairy, Woolworths and packaging company Nampak Liquid. 3 Dec 2009
Following over 93 000 entries to the Hansa World Festival Tour competition, five winners were announced at Summer Place in Hyde Park late last month. Based on the brand's ‘Stepping out of the Ordinary' campaign, the tour provides the winners and their partners with a once in a lifetime experience at renowned festivals around the world. 3 Dec 2009
Play and Learn is a newly released educational trump card game that encourages players to become experts on 40 of the more common larger land mammals most likely to be encountered during a visit to a game park in Southern Africa. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). 3 Dec 2009
BEIJING, CHINA: China on Tuesday, 1 December 2009, announced it had lifted a ban on pork imports from countries including the United States, following through on a pledge made at high-level Sino-US trade talks in October. 3 Dec 2009
The public should be on the look-out for card skimming as well as other forms of fraudulent activities this Christmas. 3 Dec 2009
The professional fees that pharmacists may charge in 2010 have been published, the SA Pharmacy Council said on Wednesday, 2 December 2009. 3 Dec 2009
The fashion world is used to coming up with something new - it's what those people do every season anyway, to keep you and me coming back to the malls. 3 Dec 2009
MADRID, SPAIN: Spanish giants Real Madrid, the world's richest football club in terms of income, will launch its first lingerie line for women next year, sports daily Marca reported on Wednesday, 2 December 2009. 3 Dec 2009
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL: Coca-Cola Israel announced on Tuesday, 1 December 2009, it was recalling several products because of "quality problems". 3 Dec 2009
USA: Online sales were up almost 14% year over year for 2009's Cyber Monday, the first Monday after Thanksgiving and traditionally a big selling day for online retailers. Shoppers spent over 38% more per order compared to 2008's figures, and they bought nearly 10% more items per order, according to market research firm Coremetrics. 2 Dec 2009
