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 | Nthabiseng Moloi When buying a car and considering the associated monthly costs, one way to reduce these is to choose a vehicle that will attract a lower premium from one's insurance company. Read more >>
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 | Linda Ensor The banking industry's plea to be able to apply its own affordability assessments to its customers has fallen on deaf ears‚ as the Department of Trade and Industry says this system has failed to curb reckless lending and mounting over-indebtedness. Read more >>
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 | Issued by Mortimer Harvey The new British Airways credit card launched in Johannesburg on Tuesday, 4 February, now offers consumers exceptional benefits with the best Avios earn rate in South Africa. Read more >>
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 | Issued by PayU PayU, South Africa's online payment solutions provider, doubled its merchant count during 2013. The significant increase is made up of merchants from various industries, with a notable increase in general retail. Read more >>
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 | Shares of food and retail outlet Famous Brands have lost 7% on the JSE this week‚ bring total losses since reaching a record high on 17 January 2014 to about 15%. Read more >>
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 | RCL Foods (RCL‚ formerly Rainbow Chickens) said its plan to raise R2.5bn through a pro-rata offer of new shares at R16.50 each had received R790m in subscriptions from shareholders. It will now proceed to place the balance of the new shares with institutional investors. Read more >>
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 | Alistair Anderson This year is set to be the best year for commercial property in first-world economies since the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008, Redefine International's chief executive Mike Watters said. Read more >>
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 | With its acquisition of 17.75% stake in Ascension properties, Delta Property Fund now has a major 41.40% investor voting bloc in Ascension. Read more >>
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 | India's first mall management company, Beyond Squarefeet, is to manage 'Ado Bayero Mall', described as the first ultra-modern shopping mall in Kano, northern Nigeria, and the largest mall in the country. Read more >>
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 | Maxi's has a Facebook campaign that encourages its fans to interact with it. The person who engages the most is named the 'fan of the month' and he or she can then nominate a charity for the chain's support. Read more >>
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 | dunnhumby, described as the world's leading customer science company, has been appointed to apply its customer centricity solutions across Shoprite's grocery business in a multi-year contract. Read more >>
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 | Microsoft Dynamics Africa 2014, which was held 4-5 February 2014, focused predominantly on four main industries - financial services, public sector, manufacturing and retail. Read more >>
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 | Pinnacle Africa has been selected by Logitech as the exclusive distributor of its Unified Communications products in Africa. Read more >>
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 | IT News Africa reports that JUMIA, a Nigerian online shopping destination in Africa, has launched in Uganda. Read more >>
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 | Celebrating 120 years of expo expertise, the Rand Show takes place at the Johannesburg Expo Centre, Nasrec from 18-28 April 2014. Read more >>
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 | The Rising Star Awards, which recognise inspirational and passionate talented people (between the ages of 28 and 40) in various business sectors, is now open for entries. Read more >>
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 | The South African Council of Shopping Centres (SACSC) fourth annual Research Conference will be held on Wednesday 9 April 2014 at the Hilton Hotel, Sandton, Johannesburg. Read more >>
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 | Celebrate this Valentine's Day with two bottles of wine from Muratie - the flagship white blend Laurens Campher 2013 and the flagship red, Ansela van der Caab 2010 that honour a 17th century love story. Read more >>
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 | Marcel Strauss, current managing executive of The Fish & Chip Co., will head Zebro's Chicken, Taste Holdings' new acquisition, with effect from 1 March 2014. Read more >>
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 | Listed hotels group City Lodge Hotels has reached agreement with Nairobi-based Fairview Hotel to acquire the other 50% of a joint venture between the two companies‚ giving it full ownership of the Fairview Hotel and the Country Lodge in Kenya's capital city. Read more >>
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 | Issued by Pyrotec Those who manufacture, distribute, import or export complementary and alternative medicines are affected by new draft legislation which brings these products under the ambit of the Medicines and Related Substances Act No.101 of 1965. Read more >>
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 | Imperial Health Sciences, in partnership with global ocean freight specialist Yusen Logistics, has announced the launch of temperature controlled sea freight consolidation service to southern Africa for the pharmaceutical industry. This weekly service kicked off in January with solutions for East and West Africa to follow later in 2014. Read more >>
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 | Amanda Visser A competitor in the market for fishing and processing canned fish‚ Saldanha Fisheries‚ is opposing the merger between Oceana and Foodcorp. Read more >>
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 | During November and December 2013 Nielsen introduced a large number of new households into the TAMS panel as a part of the planned panel expansion and upgrade. Read more >>
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 | A new augmented reality app from Puma, VISAR, educates consumers around the brand's top performance running and football product, the Mobium v2 running shoe and evoPOWER football boot. Read more >>
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Amazon has yanked gibberish translations of classic works from the shelves of its online ebooks store. Read more >>
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 | HONG KONG: Google bought a 5.94% stake in Lenovo for US$750m having sold Motorola to the Chinese technology company. Read more >>
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 | WASHINGTON, US US retail drug store giant CVS Caremark announced Wednesday that it will stop selling cigarettes, a move immediately applauded by President Barack Obama as having a "profoundly positive impact on the health of our country." Read more >>
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: Microsoft said that founder Bill Gates was stepping down as chairman to become a technology adviser to the technology company and that Indian-born Satya Nadella would be Microsoft's new chief executive officer. Read more >>
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 | LONDON, UK: The price of coffee rose to the highest levels for months on Tuesday, 4 February 2014, because of exceptionally dry weather in Brazil which could crimp harvests in the country, the world's biggest producer and exporter. Read more >>
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 | PRETORIA: President Jacob Zuma has ordered the Special Investigative Unit (SIU) to probe alleged irregularities in the affairs of the South African Post Office (SAPO). Read more >>
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 | The KwaZulu-Natal provincial government is considering establishing an automotive supplier park. Read more >>
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 | The South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) has stressed that qualifying public transport is exempted from paying for e-tolls on the Gauteng e-roads. Read more >>
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 | The spending of R122m on hiking the wages of Johannesburg municipal officials has been branded "doubly offensive" in light of the city's service delivery failings and the dire financial straits most of its residents are now in. Read more >>
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 | Henrie Geyser: motoring editor When it comes to tough off-roaders very few vehicles can match the muscle and Africa-conquering abilities of the much-respected Toyota 70 Series - and like Africa, the Land Cruiser is not for sissies, particularly the 4.5-litre V8 turbo-diesel version. Read more >>
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 | Henrie Geyser: motoring editor New vehicle sales got off in low gear at the start of 2014 with overall local sales in January of only 53,025 units, which is down more than 6% on the same month the previous year. Read more >>
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Mark Twain "The secret of getting ahead is getting started." Edgar Cayce "Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions." Paul Getty "My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil." William Shakespeare "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." Laurence J. Peter "Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience." |
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