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| Marketing & Media |
 | STEPHEN SANDMANN I'm more or less a self-taught digital marketer. It's my curiosity, risk-taking nature and creativity that got me to where I am today and that led me to ask the question, 'What should we look out for in 2017 when it comes to digital marketing?'. Read |
 | AMR KAMEL Mobile and cloud platforms, in particular, have acted as catalysts in bringing last-mile communities access to key healthcare, financial, education and other previously inaccessible services… Read |
 | Facebook has been on a roll in January, spitting out updates to its multiple services and outlining its future plans. But the latest report from the Wall Street Journal could see the company take over your television set. Read |
 | Kate Moross, an expert on how to make it in the hyper-competitive design world, is another international speaker set to liven the Design Indaba stage this year... Read |
 | BRADLEY ELLIOT The South African market seems to be grappling with a major gap between the work of digital marketing agencies and digital business analysts… Read |
 | JACO LINTVELT The competition for consumer's attention between brands in the digital media space is ever increasing and everywhere you go today on the internet there is some form of advertising following you... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS I chatted to some of the top-ranked creatives post-2016 Loeries Rankings celebrations. Here, some of the Red & Yellow School's lecturers and Loerie Award-winning graduates share their views… Read |
 | DAVE NEMETH The term “design thinking” has certainly become a buzzword with many people using it and promoting this methodology as an innovative new way of thinking. Whilst it is becoming widely accepted by many corporate companies it is certainly by no means new... Read |
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| Retail |
 | JESSICA TENNANT Starbucks South Africa launched its localised version of the global rewards programme, Starbucks Rewards at the Rosebank store... Read |
 | Nielsen's most recent annual banking survey data shows that Capitec Bank, established in 2001, has significantly increased its lead as South Africa's most popular bank... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | DANIEL PELZ Smallholder farmers, lack of equipment and meager harvests: Africa's agricultural sector is widely seen as not being ready to face the future. Modernisation can help increase production but that is easier said than done... Read |
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| Automotive |
 | The new vehicle sales market kicked off on a high note in 2017, according to the latest aggregated new vehicle sales data from Naamsa... Read |
 | HENRIE GEYSER The Volvo S90 executive sedan has just strutted into South Africa as the sexiest and smartest car in the Swedish carmaker's history... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | NOAH SCHERMBRUCKER We must challenge planning and land use management if we want a more equal city... Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | Cautious optimism prevails in the mining industry, with commodity prices on the rise, shallow growth returning to different end markets, and most mining companies in better cost positions than in the recent past. .. Read |
 | In a revised mineral resources and mineral reserves statement DRDGOLD discloses a 52,6% and a 6,6% increase respectively from those previously reported... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | As the war rages against rhino poachers, experts are warning about the dangers faced by other animals to meet local and international demand for products... Read |
 | ADRIAN WOOD Swamps, marshes, floodplains and mangrove forests, all known as wetlands, are a precious resource... Read |
 | This March, GCX and Sun International will be hosting a Director's Briefing on Water as a Business Risk at The Maslow Hotel in Johannesburg... Read |
 | Financial risk consultancy JCRA have released a report in partnership with the Centre for Economic and Business Research (CEBR) that looks at the state of renewable energy and infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa... Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | NICCI BOTHA Rights activist group, Fix the patent laws, is taking a stand to get the South African law on medicine patents changed... Read |
 | The Gauteng health MEC resigned, following the ombudsman's findings on the deaths of 94 psychiatric patients... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | RUTH COOPER Almost too pretty to eat, the cakes designed and created by “bake-tresses” and bffs, Nikki Albertyn and Karmen de Reuck, are true edible artworks. We got in touch with Nikki; confectionery queen and co-founder of online bakery LionHeart to chat delicious design for Bizcommunity's #DesignMonth. Read |
 | MARTIN MYERS RJ Benjamin, vocal coach and music MD for ‘Idols' Season 12 and one of the vocal coaches on the inaugural ‘Voice South Africa' is planing to release his fifth album titled ‘The Fifth Story' in June this year. Martin Myers got in touch with him to discover the man behind the music. Read |
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| Logistics & Transport |
 | Qantas has unveiled its new engineering facility, an investment of more than US$30 million, at Los Angeles International Airport... Read |
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| Property |
 | ALISTAIR ANDERSON Cape-based Tower Property Fund is planning to ring-fence its growing Croatian portfolio into a new investment vehicle, CEO Marc Edwards says, with the company having had "a transformative 2016"... Read |
 | The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Africa Summit will take place from 22-23 February in Sandton Central, Johannesburg... Read |
 | Nairobi, ranked 10th, is the only African city listed in JLL's fourth annual City Momentum Index (CMI) of the world's most dynamic cities... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | Club Med Southern Africa has revealed its latest campaign which highlights the brand's manifesto of a world of choices and signature experiences while affirming their latest brand positioning... Read |
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 | ACDOCO SA is a specialist consumer packaged goods distributor centred on the health and beauty sector. We are a subsidiary of Astley Dye Chemical Co. Ltd, founded in the UK in 1919, and have been in Southern Africa for over 20 years. |
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