Today sees our last newsletters for 2012, with the first of our new industry newsletters to be published on 15 January 2013, but we will keep on updating the new industry portals over the festive season.
We'd like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your continued support; our subscribers across all our portals continue to grow; in fact, in our new industries alone, we are now closing in on 70,000 subscribers, and for that we thank you.
We want to wish all of you a very enjoyable end-of-year break and - assuming the world doesn't end on Friday (You've heard about the predictions around the Mayan calendar, right?) - we wish you a highly successful 2013.
All the best from the Bizcommunity team!
Rod Baker: Content Director
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Manufacturing production in SA bounced back in October‚ increasing by 2.5% year on year (y/y) after a revised 1.7% (1.1%) year-on-year decrease in September‚ data released by Statistics SA on Tuesday, 11 December 2012, showed. 
ESI-Africa says South African power cable manufacturer Aberdare Cables, a Powertech company within the JSE-listed Altron group, has entered into an agreement with Jasco to package and supply the Snapper product range to distributors throughout South Africa. 
According to iAfrica.com, South Africans joined activists in over 80 cities around the world who issued a global call for the world's biggest jeans manufacturer Levi's to 'detox' and eliminate all hazardous chemicals from its clothing and supply chains. 
Foodcorp has reached a settlement with the Competition Commission relating to its investigation into collusive practices in the white maize and wheat milling industries between 1999 and 2007 and will pay an administrative penalty of R88.5m. 
Manufacturing production in SA bounced back in October‚ increasing by 2.5% year-on-year (y/y) after a revised 1.7% (1.1%) year-on-year decrease in September‚ data released by Statistics SA on Tuesday (11 December) showed 
Plans for a makeover of South African trains that include installing air conditioning systems, security cameras and bigger seats for all passengers were unveiled by the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) on Tuesday (11 December). 
Shale gas could provide an affordable feedstock for cleaner-burning gas-fired power plants in the country "if managed effectively and responsibly", consultancy Frost & Sullivan has said. 
Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba handed over 100 South African-made freight wagons to Botswana Rail on Tuesday (11 December). 
SAN FRANCISCO, USA: A federal jury last week found Apple guilty of infringing smartphone call handling and camera patents held by a licensing firm in which rivals Sony and Nokia hold stakes. 
PARIS, FRANCE: Renault has sold its stake in Swedish truck manufacturer Volvo AB for €1.5bn to cut debt and make strategic investments. 
SAN FRANCISCO, USA: The shift to smartphones and tablets became a landslide this year, crushing the desire for laptop computers and pressurising manufacturers to adapt to the mobile Internet era. 
