Galleries

Lindt & Sprüngli South Africa opened their doors to the Lindt Chocolate Boutique in the Mall of Africa.

The Foshini Group (TFG) launched their menswear store at an event that saw staff, media, personalities and online shoppers celebrate their growing online mall.

Nobody's Died Laughing, a documentary on Pieter-Dirk Uys was premiered at the V&A waterfront last night; 25 July.

Tomorrowland Unite took place on Saturday 23 July at the the Ticketpro Dome in Joburg. Thousands flocked to to experience 12 hours of non-stop house and electro music at Tomorrowland UNITE SA.

The President Hotel held its Wine Experience on 21 July. This was to inform the public of the hotel's aim to journey with various wine farms within the Western Cape region. The gallery also displays shots of the winter dishes produced by The President Hotel's new executive chef, Craig Paterson.

To commemorate the 67 years of Mandela's life spent fighting for equality, The SASKO team joined many South Africans on Monday 18 July 2016 in donating 67 minutes of their time to help others. The SASKO team mobilised their head office and all 12 of their bakeries across the country with one purpose in mind: To yield their butter knives while making sandwiches and share the goodness in honour of Nelson Mandela. The bakeries spent the morning spreading joy with the SASKO bread truck delivering lunch, on what also marked day one of the new term at primary schools - where poverty and hunger is still a big problem in education. More than 16,000 sandwiches were distributed from 21 SASKO depots around the country and participating bakeries delivered to Early Childhood Development Centres and Churches in their surrounding communities....

As the official spirit of golf tournament: The Open, Glenmorangie South Africa celebrated their association through a four day Scottish golf experience which culminated with a Celebrity Golf Open on Sunday 17 July 2016.

The winners of this year's YOU Spectacular awards were revealed on Saturday 16 July at Emperors Palace in Johannesburg.

W24, a reinvention of Women 24 was launched at Katy's Palace Bar in Johannesburg.

The Cinemarks' annual Winter Wonderland Ice Age event was held at the Cedar Square earlier this month.

The fourth installment of the South African Menswear Week, the 2016/7 Spring Summer collections took place at the Cape Town Stadium from the 6-9 July.

A Sustain Silver APEX award went to Joe Public United for client Nedbank. Over the last four years, it can be said that Nedbank steadily, quietly and sustainably grew its retail franchise in the middle market in the face of fierce competition. The banking space has been profoundly impacted by the competitive dynamics driven by namely, the success of Capitec as a business, as well as the relative success of FNB, fueled by a strong innovation drive; these seem to stand out in the category. These business dynamics were arguably supported by aggressive communication strategies, although in both these cases the effect of product innovation and business dynamics would be hard to ignore....

A Sustain Bronze APEX award went to Joe Public United for its medical male circumcision campaign for Mediology. By using insight-driven strategy and creative work, in a series of three campaigns from 2012 - 2015, Brothers for Life and Joe Public managed to successfully and effectively increase the knowledge about the medical benefits of MMC by 925%, as well as amplify the amount of conversation taking place on the subject.

A Change Silver APEX award went to Joe Public Ignite For Merck Iliad. In 2014, iliadin®, the biggest brand in the Merck Consumer Healthcare portfolio began to lose market share. This strong and healthy brand momentarily let its immune system weaken, giving the competition the opportunity to spread through the market and contaminate our share.

A Change Silver APEX award went to NATIVE for its Absolut Vodka campaign for Pernod Ricard. Absolut Vodka is a well-recognised global icon, but its global success has not always been mirrored in South Africa. In recent years the brand has under come under threat from the proliferation of newer, flashier premium vodka brands, and it has lost market share as well as brand relevance. It became clear that a strategic intervention was required in order to restore the Absolut brand's relevance and status as the global icon it once was. NATIVE VML and Pernod Ricard teamed up to implement a truly integrated campaign for the brand, which would rock the premium vodka category. As a result, "Africa is Absolut" was created....