Taste Holdings expects first-half earnings to be largely weighed down by costs associated with the establishment of the Domino's Pizza brand as well as the conversion of existing Scooters Pizza outlets. 6 Oct 2015
Productivity SA launched Productivity Month last week at the National Productivity Awards, where Cape Town-based company K-Way won the National Corporate Sector Award for excellence in optimising its resources to produce products or services that offer value to its customers. 6 Oct 2015
Pieter Hommez
Household odours can have a significant effect on many of the decisions we make around our homes. This was evident from the results of a survey conducted among South Africa women, to identify some of the worst household odours. 6 Oct 2015
Retail author and lecturer Martin Butler will be sharing knowledgeable insights, based on current research for his third book (to be published early next year), at Retail Congress Africa next month. 6 Oct 2015
Smirnoff trialled two new flavours at the Spring Fiesta held at the Wild Waters Complex in Ekurhuleni over the weekend. "Spring is all about new beginnings, so what better time than Ekurhuleni Spring Fiesta to introduce South Africa to two new innovations that are bound to be firm favourites of Smirnoff fans," said Mark Gounden, Brand Manager: Smirnoff FABs at Brandhouse. 5 Oct 2015
In an earnings update on Friday Pick n Pay warned that market conditions were likely to remain difficult in the second half. This echoed sentiment from other South African retailers who have continued to feel the pain as consumers face sustained pressure from rising costs, higher interest rates, increases in taxes and escalating prices due to a weakening rand. 5 Oct 2015
Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies.
Photographer: Trevor Samson
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CAPE TOWN - Prospects are looking promising for the steel industry to get further protection against cheap Chinese imports and for the state to win its battle for a "developmental" steel price. 5 Oct 2015
Rhodes Food group has added muffins, croissants, cookies and pizza to the list of convenience foods it will distribute after snapping up global food manufacturer General Mills' South African operations. 5 Oct 2015
Botswana-based discount retailer Choppies has no intention of applying the brakes to the rapid roll-out of its stores, even though economic growth in the countries it targets is slowing and consumer purchasing power is declining. 5 Oct 2015
Amanda Stops
The top award (the Spectrum Award) of the South African Council of Shopping Centres' (SACSC) Footprint Marketing Awards, has been won by Cape Town's Tyger Valley Centre. The SACSC Footprint Marketing Awards recognise exceptional shopping centre marketing, innovation and creative achievements, with economic success. 2 Oct 2015
Marius Muller
The Pavilion shopping centre in Durban is to get a R1.1 billion makeover and expansion designed to reposition the centre, significantly increasing its leisure and retail offering, as announced by Pareto, the owner of The Pavilion, at the SA Council of Shopping Centres' 19th Annual Congress. 2 Oct 2015
More than 400 deaf and hearing-impaired people nationwide have found an opportunity for gainful employment within the Shoprite Group, thanks to the retailer's Decade of the Deaf Project in partnership with Employ and Empower Deaf (eDeaf) over the past six years. The aim is to provide jobs for 1,000 deaf learners within a 10-year period. 2 Oct 2015
Engen - the country's favourite petroleum brand as voted in the 2015 Sunday Times Top Brands and 2015 Sunday Times Generation Next surveys - recently embarked on a digital and augmented reality campaign, setting a new standard for how the business plans to engage and interact with its customers going forward. 2 Oct 2015
CAPE TOWN - Two of the JSE's specialist packaging companies - Bowler Metcalf (Bowcalf) and Astrapak - appear to be firmly on the comeback trail. 2 Oct 2015
South Africa now has the sixth-highest number of shopping centres of any country in the world, boasting almost 2,000 shopping centres with a floor area covering 23,000,000m², according to Nomzamo Radebe, the newly appointed President of the South African Council of Shopping Centres (SACSC), who gave this insight as the SACSC's 19th Annual Congress got underway in Durban. Radebe is CEO of JHI Properties, part of Excellerate Property Services Group. 1 Oct 2015
I attended a great session recently on the cost of complexity in manufacturing, hosted by GIBBS and presented by Andre de Ruyter, the CEO of Nampak. 1 Oct 2015
Woolworths Holdings has announced the appointment of John Dixon as CEO of David Jones. He replaces Iain Nairn, who resigned for personal reasons. Nairn, who has led the business for the last 14 months, has agreed to stay on for a period of three months to work with the business in an advisory capacity to ensure a seamless handover. 1 Oct 2015
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