Unless you're one of those lucky few still lolling about on an extended vacation (or at school on the coast), we're back to work in earnest. And you know what that means at Bizcommunity? It's trend time! Today Darren Woolley puts forward some choices and decisions marketers should be making in 2013. We also have e-commerce forecast for 2013 as well as Sue Disler wondering who said magazines are dead? In other news this past week, there was a fire at Astrapak's East Rand facilities - investigations are underway. Manufacturing in November has shown improvement, business confidence has rebounded and ATM withdrawals were on the rise in December. And finally Greg Johnson explains the importance of after-sales service in IT. Have a great week!

Shan Radcliffe, Group Head - Retail

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