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| Marketing & Media |
 | ISSUED BY OGILVY SOUTH AFRICA Ogilvy & Mather South Africa announced today that Abey Mokgwatsane has resigned as CEO and will be leaving the company at the end of September to join Vodacom as its new Managing Executive for Brand and Communications... Read |
 | ALLON RAIZ Does the construct of Millennials really exist or is it just hype based on the idealism of the era? Read |
 | DANETTE BREITENBACH While boasting a record number of entries and finalists, the Apex Awards once again proved just how high its standard is with no Grand Prix awarded and only one gold Apex given out at last night's 2017 Apex Awards... Read |
 | With a large population of 184 million and a relatively underdeveloped formal retail industry, Nigeria holds considerable potential for e-commerce... Read |
 | IDidTht's June SA Film Reel was judged by Brendan Hoffmann, group creative director at Publicis Machine, who selected Vodacom ‘This Is Your Time' by Dan Mace at Egg Films for Best of Reel for Direction Craft... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS Here are the highlights of Popimedia's comprehensive breakdown of research into SA consumers' online behaviour and how it affects their purchase decisions, conducted earlier this year by Just Play. Read |
 | We interviewed a number of speakers for a summary of their talks at the Apex masterclass yesterday... Read |
 | RITA DOHERTY Responding to Walter Pike's article, Did Publicis dumping the Cannes Lions come as a surprise to you?, Rita Doherty writes that she doesn't agree that interruptive advertising will be replaced by relevance advertising. She believes the two systems will co-exist... Read |
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| Retail |
 | Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA), Africa's largest Coca-Cola bottler has acquired Equator Bottlers, the third largest Coca-Cola bottler in Kenya... Read |
 | COLLEEN GOKO Swedish retailer H&M plans to open another six stores in SA before the end of 2017 as it extends its reach in the country... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | ALANA MANN The global food system has been operating in post-truth mode for decades. Having constructed food scarcity as a justification for a second Green Revolution, Big Agriculture now employs... Read |
 | KGAUGELO MASWENENG The SA Poultry Association has warned all types of chicken are at risk of contracting bird flu, whether free-range, hardbody or conventionally bred live chickens... Read |
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| Automotive |
 | Jaco Oosthuizen has been appointed as managing director of Renault South Africa effective 1 July 2017... Read |
 | Swedish car maker Volvo has revealed it will adopt an electrification strategy for all new models from 2019... Read |
 | The go-fast Audi Sport division will plump out its line-up from 10 cars to 16 within the next three years - and at least one of them will be an electric car... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | MARK ALLIX Corobrik has hit back hard over charges by the Competition Commission that it has engaged in price fixing... Read |
 | MARK ALLIX The National Employers Association of SA (Neasa) does not think tariffs on cheap, mainly Chinese, steel imports will help an industry in crisis... Read |
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| Education |
 | The Allan Gray Orbis Foundation is open for applications by current Grade 6 learners for its high school scholarship aimed at establishing passion in the selected scholars and developing their potential to become self-starting high-impact responsible entrepreneurs... Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | Rescuers called off a search for miners who were trapped underground after an illegal goldmine collapsed in western Ghana, declaring 17 dead... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | SINDY PETERS After running successful pilots in both Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, Edgars recently launched its UNiTE Orange Day campaign in the Western Cape... Read |
 | ROSEMARY SAINTY New guidelines being presented to the G20 this weekend will change the way individuals, companies, investors and regulators manage the financial risks of climate change... Read |
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| Finance |
 | Saudi Arabia said it had begun taxing foreigners working in the private sector as part of fiscal reforms... Read |
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| Logistics & Transport |
 | Ugomyway, a South African developed and maintained carpooling app that is tackling the traffic congestion, has released the results of its pilot ‘corporate carpooling project'... Read |
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| Property |
 | There will always be a small percentage of tenants who will either cause quite a bit of physical damage to a property or owe money to the landlord... Read |
 | Many homeowners and prospective homeowners are filled with uncertainty... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | ZELNA HENGARI Unlike other segments which have not been spared by the tough economic challenges the country is going through, the tourism industry has witnessed a tremendous boost over the past two years... Read |
 | A multi-stakeholder initiative aimed at equipping unemployed young people with skills and opportunities to participate in the country's marine tourism sector has been launched... Read |
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| ICT |
 | A new Oracle and MIT Technology Review study reveals the importance of collaboration between finance and human resources (HR) teams with a unified cloud... Read |
 | ILSE VAN DEN BERG NEWSWATCH: If you've tried to find a parking spot in Cape Town's CBD on a... um, ever; you'll know full well that it can lead to your not-so-pretty self making an appearance... Read |
 | block.one, the developer of EOS.IO software, a new blockchain operating system designed to support commercial-scale decentralised applications, received 651,902 ether in the first five days of its 341-day long token distribution... Read |
 | COLIN THORNTON With individuals and businesses becoming increasingly dependent on mobile devices for everything from email to banking, cyber criminals have turned their attention to mobile platforms... Read |
 | Jumo has appointed Chris Pinkham as an active independent director, effective immediately. Pinkham left his role as VP of engineering at Twitter in February 2017... Read |
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