NIGERIA: Oando, Nigeria's biggest fuel retailer, blamed government inefficiency for a 15% decline in turnover in the year to December, as “uncertainties” surrounding deregulation exacerbated the effect of higher borrowing costs. 13 Apr 2010
Retailer Mr Price Group on Wednesday, 31 March 2010, said that it had brought to an end its involvement in export partnerships. 1 Apr 2010
BORDEAUX, FRANCE: Hong Kong has emerged as the fastest growing wine hub while China's seemingly unquenchable thirst for wine has ousted the United States as Bordeaux's number one client outside Europe. 18 Mar 2010
The second sale of the year's summer season took place in Port Elizabeth on Wednesday, 10 March 2010, with 161 130kg on offer, and featured an average market indicator increase of 10.7%. 15 Mar 2010
South Africa plans to double its trade with the UK and become a gateway for European companies looking to establish bases in Africa, says Minister of Trade and Industry Rob Davies. 11 Mar 2010
South Africa's wheat farmers say they are going through their toughest period since agriculture was deregulated in the 1990s as the crop continues to trade at depressed levels. 22 Feb 2010
PARIS, FRANCE: Champagne exports fell by 28% last year at the height of the global economic crisis in a "catastrophic" year for the industry, a French alcohol business body said. 22 Feb 2010
HARARE, ZIMBABWE: Zimbabwe's annual tobacco selling season began on an upbeat note on Tuesday, 16 February 2010, when a bumper crop went under the hammer, attributed by industry officials to good prices and more farmers. 19 Feb 2010
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA: Ethiopia on Wednesday, 17 February 2010, launched a direct bidding market for international coffee transactions to promote fair trade and boost the income of its impoverished farmers. 19 Feb 2010
A bid to import sable antelope from Zambia was delayed when the North Gauteng High Court ordered that a risk analysis relating to foot-and-mouth disease be done. 2 Feb 2010
South Africa recorded a trade surplus of R3.7 billion in December 2009, the South African Revenue Service (SARS) said on Friday, 29 January 2010. 1 Feb 2010
Recent retail sales figures released by AC Nielsen for the UK, South Africa's biggest wine export destination show that the country continues to rank as the fastest-growing wine category in the UK, increasing its volume share of the market to 12,3% for 2009, up from 10,4% in 2008. 22 Jan 2010
South Africa's trade conditions declined to 42 index points in December, reflecting a normal seasonal phenomenon, the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Sacci) said on Thursday, 14 January 2010. 14 Jan 2010
Quota and tariff free access into the European Union by Illovo Sugar (ILV) is expected to double its exports to Europe over the next 4-5 years. 11 Dec 2009
International Relations and Cooperation Deputy Minister Ebrahim Ebrahim will today, Monday 7 December 2009, co-chair the 2nd South Africa-Switzerland Annual Consultations with the State Secretary of the Confederation of Switzerland, Michael Ambühl. 7 Dec 2009
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
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
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND: Diplomats Latin American banana producing countries have agreed to an EU offer to cut banana tariffs, diplomats said, a move that could end the longest-standing dispute at the World Trade Organisation. 20 Nov 2009
Egyptian Agriculture Minister Amen Abaza has promised SA's Agriculture Minister Tina Joemat Pettersson he will investigate why Egypt has continued to ban imports of bone-in beef and livestock products from SA despite SA's compliance with Egypt's demands, the Department of Agriculture said Monday, 2 November 2009. 5 Nov 2009
South Africa is expected to participate in the 27th Havana International Trade Fair in Cuba this week, to promote its exports and investment potential. 2 Nov 2009
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