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Retail
 Any food, beverage or lifestyle associated brand that has launched in South Africa in the past 12 months can enter the Good Food & Wine Product Awards, which recognise innovation in these industries in South Africa. Show exhibitors may enter free of charge, while non-exhibitors pay R5000 excl VAT per product entry. Read more >>
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Associations
 The regional Special Star Awards, an initiative by the South African Council of Shopping Centres (SACSC), which recognise and celebrate retailers and service providers who have delivered exceptional levels of service, have been awarded to KwaZulu-Natal retailers. Read more >>
Banking & Finance
[John Loos] Could the unequal and 'conspicuous' consumption practices of our household sector be potentially even more harmful than the inequality of income on its own, as consumption is the most visible to the poor and has the potential to create the most discontent. It is this consumption that hampers longer term economic growth through limiting much-needed savings to fund fixed investment and it is certain forms of this consumption that place a strain on the environment. Read more >>
Brand news
 A patented quick-freeze technology allows consumers to make ice lollies on the kitchen countertop in 7-9 minutes. The Zoku QuickPop Maker works with almost any type of juice, fresh fruit pulp, fat-free yoghurt, sweetened coffee, chocolate milk or fruit smoothies. Read more >>
 In David Green's ongoing quest for a green product in eyewear, he has launched a unique concept, where he selects indigenous fallen tree leaves, dries and dyes them in preparation for eyewear decoration. These are then beautifully crafted inside a natural cotton based acetate material that is handmade in France. Read more >>
 As part of the Global Traveler's 2011 'Wines on the Wing Airline Wine Competition', SAA entered the Weltevrede Philip Jonker Entheos Brut Cap Classique NV as served in its international business class, where it was rated a 'clear winner'. Read more >>
 Volkswagen Group South Africa turns 60 today, having produced its first Volkswagen Beetle in Uitenhage, South Africa on 31 August 1951. Since then, it has produced over 2.8 million vehicles, been awarded numerous export orders by its parent company, won a number of local and international awards and currently produces South Africa's two top-selling passenger vehicles. Read more >>
Clothing & Textiles
White River is the host city for Mpumalanga Fashion Week Spring/Summer Collection 11/12, which takes place on 23-26 November 2011 at Casterbridge Lifestyle Centre. Not only will the show feature four main evening shows, exhibition and a sales store but it will also introduce the new Royal Designer award and a 'Designer Meets Industry' conference. Read more >>
Following an announcement by Hugues Witvoet, chief executive of the Edcon Department Stores Division, that Edgars will become the official retail partner of SA Fashion Week, the retailer will launch the first SA Fashion Week Designer Capsule Collection at an exclusive event at the Edgars Melrose Arch flagship store on Thursday 21 September 2011, the eve of SA Fashion Week winter 2012. Read more >>
Commercial property
[Janice Roberts] Three hotels on the Garden Route are to be sold at auction, a sign that the hotel industry is under severe pressure. Read more >>
Corporate Social Investment
Zappon GoodWorks, a CSI initiative founded by group-buying website Zappon, offers charities and organisations the opportunity to raise funds free of charge, via its online platform every Saturday. Read more >>
e-Commerce
As its first launch into an emerging market, Facebook Check-in Deals has signed three major brands in South Africa as its partners - Chevrolet, Cell C and Avis. This service enables users to claim special discounts or rewards by 'checking in' to particular stores or locations using their GPS-enabled smartphones. The launch partners have the exclusive right to carry its logo until November, when the doors will be thrown open to other businesses. Read more >>
Exhibitions & Events
 [Issa Sikiti da Silva: @sikitimedia] A total of 8550 wine lovers around South Africa flocked to the three-day Tops Soweto Wine 2011 Festival held at the University of Johannesburg Soweto Campus last week, as the 'swirl, smell, taste, spit' event entered its seventh edition since it was jointly founded by Mnikelo Mangciphu and Cape Wine Academy MD Marilyn Cooper. Read more >>
 In a first for South Africa's wine industry, the 100 Women 100 Wines competition has selected the ten best wines in ten different categories of occasion based drinking to reflect the different lifestyles and tastes of the 100 women selected to take part in the tasting weekend. Read more >>
Network Expos Africa Retail, which will run from 26-27 March 2012 at Gallagher Convention Centre, Midrand, is designed for busy decision makers by offering an overview of services and products in the retail sector, with a primary focus on retail systems, visual communications, interiors and design. Read more >>
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Packaging
[Stephen Beattie] In recent years, eco packaging has gone from being a luxury to becoming a deciding factor when making a purchase. Environmentally responsible packaging is a top priority in today's retail environment and consumers are snubbing excessively packaged options in favour of minimalistic, re-usable or recyclable packaging. Read more >>
Regulatory
 The Competition Tribunal has approved the merger between Blue Falcon and Denny Mushrooms. Read more >>
The South African Breweries (SAB) says it has noted the decision by the North Gauteng High Court to maintain the current moratorium on the issuing of new liquor licenses in Gauteng. Read more >>
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Retailers
[Zeenat Moorad] Nigeria's potent potential has made it the bull's eye of foreign and local retail companies as the 'country de jour' in which to set up shop, despite obvious risks in the most populous country in Africa. Read more >>
[Zeenat Moorad] South African unions are on heightened alert after rumours surfaced that UK retailer Tesco was in talks to acquire Cape Town-based Pick n Pay. Read more >>
Shipping & Transport
Supply chain
Dairy farmers in SA could soon be extinct, with almost two-thirds having already deserted the industry in over a little more than a decade as their margins have shrunk. Read more >>
 The third annual Green Supply Chain Awards, a joint initiative of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport: South Africa (CILTSA), the Consumer Goods Council of South Africa (CGCSA) and Supply Chain Today magazine, were awarded late last week to South Africa's top environmental industries. Read more >>
According to Sian Browne, Africa Supply Chain lead at Ernst & Young, South African companies are spreading into Africa in search of more consumers. However, companies entering this market will confront major supply chain challenges unlike any they may have experienced in more developed markets. Read more >>
Technology
 [Wilter du Toit] When companies decide to mobilise a business, they need to select the most cost-effective and risk-free path to take, regardless of the competing claims about which strategies and technology platforms are the 'best'. Read more >>
 [Rafi Leigh] Reviewing emerging technologies at SIGGRAPH convention in Vancouver, I believe it is only a matter of time before South African retailers adopt Augmented Reality (AR) but marketplace realities will have to be considered to ensure AR is not just a gimmick, but a means of achieving long-term competitive advantage. Read more >>
 LONDON, UK: comScore, Inc has released an analysis of the online advertising market in the United Kingdom across the general population of fixed line Internet users, online video viewers and smartphone users. Among its findings, the analysis shows mobile and video advertising gaining traction in reaching a sizeable percentage of the total audience. Read more >>
 NUREMBERG, GERMANY: The overall market for Technical Consumer Goods (TCG) in Western Europe recorded a sales volume of €41.8 billion* in the second quarter of 2011. This is a decrease of 5.1% compared to last year's figures. Read more >>
 LONDON: AETN UK, a joint venture between A+E Networks and BSkyB, has appointed Stephen Roberts in the newly created role of head of programme scheduling, and promoted a number of its senior programming team across commissioning, acquisitions, editorial & compliance and research. Read more >>
 PARIS: PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Viacom International Media Networks and Russian television broadcaster Channel One Russia, plan to team up at MIPCOM 2011 to discuss the future of media, entertainment and broadcasting. MIPCOM will take place on Monday, 3 October, in the Grand Auditorium of the Palais des Festivals in Cannes. Read more >>
 New data out by digital research group comScore, revealed that 82.2 million people in the US owned smartphones during the three months ending in July, up 10% from the preceding three month period. Read more >>
 WASHINGTON: The US Justice Department will seek to block AT&T's proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday (31 August 2011). Read more >>
 COPENHAGEN: Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen came under fire Wednesday for removing entries from his Facebook page which were either disapproving or proposed solutions similar to those offered by the opposition. Read more >>
 WASHINGTON: A false Internet security certificate has been used in an apparent attempt to snoop on Google users in Iran, according to the Internet search giant and computer security firms. Read more >>
 The dates for the 2012 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity will revert back to the usual third week in June next year after the decision by the city of Cannes to postpone until further notice the refurbishment to the Palais des Festivals. Read more >>
 WASHINGTON: US cable television network CNN announced Tuesday (30 August 2011) that it has bought Zite, a Canadian company that makes a personalised news reader for the iPad. Read more >>
 PARIS: French media and telecom group Vivendi announced on Wednesday (30 August 2011) a doubling of first-half net profits to 2.5 billion euros ($3.6 billion) as it continued to reap the benefits from a legal victory. Read more >>
ROTTERDAM: BPC Banking Technologies, a provider of Open System e-payment services and products for the global financial industry, announced that it was selected to implement a new card management system by First United Bank (Pervobank), Samara region, Russia. Read more >>
 "Firework", the collaboration between Katy Perry, EMI, Deutsche Telekom and Saatchi & Saatchi was named Video of the Year at the MTV Music Video Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday evening, 28 August 2011. Saatchi & Saatchi and Deutsche Telekom worked with Katy Perry to create "Katy's Project" - a casting call for Deutsche Telekom customers to audition for appearances in the "Firework" video. Read more >>
 PARIS: The Montreux Comedy Festival, one of the longest running comedy events in the world, will be adding a business networking element to its annual edition. Read more >>
 BEIJING: China's state news agency called on Internet sites on Tuesday (30 August 2011) to stop the "cancer" of online rumours, in the latest sign of official unease over the rising popularity of social networking sites. Read more >>
 NEW DELHI: Indian members of parliament are taking lessons on how to use iPads and other tablet computers after being given a special budget to buy technology that cuts down on paperwork. Read more >>
 AUSTRALIA: TrinityP3 has released a global iPhone business app to help agencies, marketers and procurement calculate costs and fees in various markets and for various resource. The Resource Rate Calculator app is based on TrinityP3's current online calculators and works with the variables involved in cost-based agency remuneration; salary costs, billable hours per year, overhead and profit margin. Read more >>
 LONDON: A British private detective has passed the names of staff at the News of the World paper who instructed him to illegally access phone voicemails to the legal team of a suspected hacking victim, his lawyer said. Read more >>
 HELSINKI: Nokia said on Monday (29 August 2011) a database for a developer forum it operates had been hacked and some member information accessed. The Finnish giant said the information hacked from the developer.nokia.com forum included email addresses and some usernames, birth dates and URL addresses. Read more >>
 LONDON: British mobile phone giant Vodafone said Tuesday (30 August 2011) that it was holding initial talks to merge its Vodafone Greece division with Greek telecommunications operator Wind Hellas. Read more >>
 Adstream, a provider of advertising technology solutions, has announced the acquisition of Little Black Book Online and the incorporation of its team. Little Black Book was founded in 2009 by Matt Cooper as a specialised resources directory for creative companies and professionals in New York and London. Read more >>
More International news...
Associations
International speakers from Walmart and the Global GS1 Office have been invited to address some 500 thought leaders in the retail and manufacturing industry at this year's Consumer Goods Council of South Africa Conference, taking place at the Sandton Sun in Johannesburg. Read more >>The CGCSA applauded the Gauteng government when they acknowledged public and business's outcry over the tariff finalisation process. Read more >>Corporate Social Investment
 The lives of another two Clover Mama Afrikas have been changed forever as FlexiFleet donated two Toyota Yaris in celebration of Women's Day during a live draw on Ontbytsake, a KykNet television programme. Read more >>FMCG
 In honor of its 100th anniversary, Elizabeth Arden has re-launched Red Door with a new bottle and package design. Read more >>Logistics
IMPERIAL Logistics' Arbour Week tree planting initiative could generate as much oxygen as 8 600 people inhale annually. Read more >>IMPERIAL Logistics has again been recognised for its 'green logistics' evolution, this time with Marketing Director, Abrie de Swardt receiving the Green Supply Chain Industry Leadership Award 2011. Read more >>
 [Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] The economy might be slowing down but there is still plenty of life in the new passenger car market in South Africa with sales up by 13% over July. The 36 138 new passenger cars sold are 8% more than August last year and it also pushes the year to date sales up by nearly 17% over the same period last year. Read more >>
 [Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] The French make great sauces because they discovered a long time ago that it needs a careful blending of a number of ingredients to get it just right - and this is precisely what Citroen did when they created a winning recipe called DS4. Read more >>
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 [Brian Berkman: contributing editor, travel] Perhaps because of the stories of what goes on in "Vegas, stays in Vegas", companies are electing to have team meetings and conferences over weekends and inviting spouses along. Read more >>
 [Rod Baker] With a staff that deserves Olympic Gold for the amount of attention they lavish on you, and an organisation that will ensure your stay will be special, it's very hard to beat. But that's Long Beach Mauritius for you. Read more >>
 A double-dip recession may squeeze already pressured margins in a domestic market that is over-traded, argues Mango CEO Nico Bezuidenhout. Read more >>
Embraer and Kenya Airways have finalised a contract for the purchase of 10 Embraer 190 jets and the purchase rights for a further 16 aircraft from the company's E-Jet family. Read more >>
 Protea Hotels Zambia is about begin construction of its eighth hotel on the outskirts of Ndola, whilst it refurbishes the five-year-old Protea Hotel Cairo Road in Lusaka's CBD. Read more >>
More Travel news...
 [Sindy Peters] Laurie Levine's Six Winters can be compared to an undulating landscape that takes you on an exciting aural journey complete with cheerful climbs and soul-stirring descents, and hardly any plains for you to catch your breath. You won't find any country / folk in my music collection; I've never made a connection with the genre, until now that is. Read more >>
 [Ruth Cooper] "Music stole my heart, you made me tear my whole world apart, This my love is a break-up letter ... Music, this is goodbye," sings Jeremy on track 9; Music Stole My Heart. Seems like that heady music love affair is over for The Dirty Skirts. Hinted as being their last album, "Lost In The Fall" is an ellipsis on the possible end of the band's career. The 12 tracks reflect this; an apocalyptic sentiment prevails throughout; forecasting an ultimate and final destiny for the band and on a much larger, vaguer scale, the world. Read more >>
 [Jordan Scott] Everybody has a crazy old relative that we suspect has taken one too many hits as a teenager - and I don't mean in a boxing ring. But how many of you have wondered what the older folk get up to when we aren't around to keep an eye on them? Well, Anthea Thompson, or Bertha Cummings as she is in the one-lady show; Living Remote: Bertha's guide to life, love and pharmaceuticals, takes being "old" to a level I don't think many have imagined before. Read more >>
 [Kervyn Cloete] Tim Burton's 2001 reboot of the seminal 1968 science fiction classic, "Planet of the Apes," was for the most part a middling affair, which is now mainly remembered for Rick Baker's make-up designs turning Helena Bonham-Carter into the spitting image of Michael Jackson, except not quite as creepy. Read more >>
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