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Celebrating SA's best...This was a bumper week for awards celebrating South Africa's most innovative and trailblazing consumer-facing brands. First up, we have all the winners from this year's Pricecheck Tech and E-commerce Awards, where Takealot scooped 4 of the 14 awards, including the coveted E-commerce Service of the Year title. Then, the country's standout extra virgin olive oils were recognised at the 2018 SA Olive Awards, while the best beers were revealed at this year's South African National Beer Trophy competition, which is the largest beer tasting competition in Africa with 212 entries and more than 20 judges. And finally, the winners of the 2018/2019 Ask Afrika Icon Brands Awards were announced. Icon brands are those that are used loyally by South Africans across the spectrum. Capping off Women's Month, Danelle van Heerde from Sanlam Personal Finance shares insight into the purchasing power of women, and how they can use it to end the pink tax problem. I interview The Velvet Cake Co.'s Jandri Van Zyl about her business journey building a crowd-pleasing cake-haven, and Juanita Pienaar chats to ethical artistic jeweller Charmaine Taylor about her business that started up-cycling the original fence from Robben Island Prison and turning it into jewellery. In other news, Danette Breitenbach reports from the launch of Nielsen Smartstore, a digital solution that captures insights in a virtual immersive environment that allows retailers, researchers and brands to build scenarios for the future. And Sea Harvest has diversified with an R527m acquisition in Ladismith Cheese in the Western Cape. We've also got insight-packed thought leadership from Daniella Shapiro, Higor Torchia, Wynand Smit and Gareth Hawkey. Lastly, don't forget to those nominations in for the inaugural Faithful to Nature Eco Awards. Until next week, enjoy! Lauren Hartzenberg
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Lauren Hartzenberg Takealot cleaned up at this year's Pricecheck Tech and E-commerce Awards, bagging four of the 14 awards presented, including the coveted E-commerce Service of the Year...read |
| | | While Bloomberg figures show that women are the world's most powerful consumers, a recent Sanlam survey reveals that they are not reaping the benefits of such power...read |
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The country's best beers were awarded at this year's South African National Beer Trophy competition. It's the largest beer tasting competition in Africa to date with 212 entries and more than 20 judges...read | 
SA's standout extra virgin olive oils were awarded at the annual SA Olive Awards held in Franschhoek last week...read | 
Portia Mngomezulu, founder of Portia M Skin Solutions, has been awarded Pick n Pay's 2018 Small Supplier of the Year award for her business' exceptional growth performance and job creation...read |
| | |  | Lauren Hartzenberg Jandri Van Zyl's sweet dreams of building a crowd-pleasing cake-haven have steadily been realised since her business The Velvet Cake Co. launched in 2012 to public acclaim. read | |  | Juanita Pienaar Marketer and designer turned ethical artistic jeweller, Charmaine Taylor has a passion and vision to promote the message of forgiveness and peace that former President Nelson Mandela shared... read | |  | Evan-Lee Courie Karen Nadasen, CEO of PayU South Africa, is regularly described as one of South Africa's most inspiring women in tech, nominated for IT Personality of the Year 2017... read | |  | Robin Fredericks Michelle Adelman, founder of Crossover Meat and Infinite Foods shares why she chose a career in food security, the challenges she has faced and her message for women in business... read | |  | Robin Fredericks In celebration of #WomensMonth, we chat to Michela Dalpiaz, co-founder of Ayama Wines and proud Italian co-owner of Slent Farm, who has travelled far and wide to bring her love of wine to South Africa, with a flair of passion for the work of art that she creates... read | |
| | |  | Issued By Bizcommunity.com This September, give your brand the space to bear fruit and blossom on Bizcommunity - the biggest multi-industry content distribution specialists in Africa... read | | |  | Higor Torchia Competition in the retail industry is fiercer than ever. Between e-commerce sites and subscription services, consumers have plenty of choices when it comes to where they spend their time and money... read | |  | Wynand Smit Self-service retail is swooping across the globe; from online shopping to self-checkout, there's a growing trend in retail environments that focuses on driving efficient and seamless processes to enhance service and CX... read | |  | Gareth Hawkey For South African retailers, the ability to effectively utilise the data at their disposal using sophisticated technology will be fundamental to remaining competitive with personalised in-store customer experiences... read | | |  | Sindy Peters Around 96 African elephants are poached for their ivory every day, that's one elephant every 15 minutes... read | | |  | Marsha Bryant When American Horror Story, the Museum of Modern Art and Napoleon Dynamite pay homage to an invention, you know it's made a cultural impact in a big way. read | |  | Kiersten Muenchinger One of my ice cube trays is a small, yellow novelty tray that, when placed in the freezer, molds water into little duck-shaped pieces of ice... read | | |  | Provincial manufacturers and businesses assembled in Durban at the Kwazulu Natal Manufacturing Indaba to explore growth opportunities, discover the latest manufacturing incentives and trends... read | | |    
View gallery | | |  | Yvonne Blaauw, a mom of two from Wellington in the Western Cape, is the winner of the 26th annual Championship Boerewors competition. Her recipe will be available in all Shoprite and Checkers stores nationwide... read | |  | Fishing and food business Sea Harvest Group has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Cape Harvest, has concluded a share purchase agreement of R527 million to acquire Ladismith Cheese... read | |  | Ilse van den Berg Situated 20 minutes away from Cape Town's CBD, against the Tygerberg Hills, the winery not only offers an unobstructed view of Table Mountain, Table Bay, and Robben Island, but also an extraordinary terroir which makes for great wines - sold in many restaurants and shops nationwide... read | | |  | Issued By dmg events Africa From 27-28 September, FoodNext.Africa will bring together startups, food innovators, foodtech businesses, investors and partners who are redefining the food industry from farm to fork... read | | |  | FoodForward SA has introduced the FoodShare Digital Platform, a technological answer to the logistical demands of an organisation that recovers surplus food in the supply chain for redistribution... read | |  | Faithful to Nature has just launched its inaugural Eco Awards, which will honour the brands and companies demonstrating a commitment to conscious consumption and earth-friendly products... read | | |  | Issued By ACDOCOSA Specialist consumer packaged goods brand-custodian and distributor, ACDOCO SA has announced that it is been appointed as the exclusive South African distributor for multi-award winning, global oral care brand, Jordan... read | |  | Issued By ACDOCOSA Whitening your teeth is as easy as smiling! BlanX White Shock Toothpaste is an incredibly smart and safe paste that will whiten your teeth every time you smile... read | | |  | South Africa is processing a new report produced by an independent panel that reviewed the current list of items exempted from value added tax (VAT)... read | | |  | Retailers and shopping centres need to work harder at enticing shoppers as shrinking salaries, a VAT increase, petrol price hikes, escalating food costs and soaring electricity fees are contributing to mounting financial pressure... read | |  | Danette Breitenbach Shoppers are changing at such a rapid pace, and while there are many methodologies to understand shoppers, a tool to help us move with the rapidly changing shoppers is needed... read | |  | Issued By Insight Survey With the water crisis in the Cape provinces (Northern, Western and Eastern), Insight Survey investigates whether sales of bottled water have significantly increased over the past year, and what the outlook is for 2018 and beyond... read | | |  | Wimpy has terminated its relationship with The Odd Number just a few months after signing the contract... read | |  | The winners of the 2018/2019 Ask Afrika Icon Brands Awards were announced at a conference that took place at The Venue in Melrose Arch on 21 August 2018... read | | |  | Sovereign said Cultiver can potentially realise a turnover of R659m over the next ten years. This, in turn, will set Cultiver on a path to become one of South Africa's largest 100% black-owned poultry hatching and rearing operations... read | | |  | Daniella Shapiro The hyper-connected multiverse of tomorrow is today. Brands can get washed away, overwhelmed by the virtual trend wave, or they can surf the possibilities in this era of omni-channeling. read | | | | Ferdinand Porsche "Good design should be honest." Michael Jackson "The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work." Johnny Iuzzini "Everyone has days when things can go wrong. That doesn't make you a bad pastry chef - that makes you human." Warren Buffett "Price is what you pay. Value is what you get." Florence Welch "You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second." |
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