BMW gets artistic online

Tate and BMW announced a major new international partnership, BMW Tate Live which will focus on performance, interdisciplinary art and curating digital space. The four-year programme will be launched with a series of artist performances created specifically to be broadcast 'live' online. Read more >>

Bridgestone sponsors Cape Leopard Trust

The Cape Leopard Trust has received support from a number of donors including Bridgestone South Africa, who has been partners of the non-profit predator conservation organisation based in the Western Cape since 2009. Read more >>

Hyundai, one of the world's greenest brands

Interbrand, a global brand consultancy, ranked Hyundai as one of the world's greenest brands, citing the automaker's Blue Drive eco-friendly strategy and its industry leadership in zero-emissions hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle development as two key contributing areas. Hyundai was ranked 11th among the agency's 50 Best Global Green Brands and fourth among the seven automotive brands that made the survey. Read more >>

SA to take delivery of Nissan LEAF

The success of the Nissan LEAF has paved the way for greater acceptance of electric vehicle mobility in South Africa. Read more >>

Ultra-high tensile steel for Mazda CX-5

Mazda Motor Corporation, in collaboration with Sumitomo Metal Industries and Aisin Takaoka, has developed vehicle components using 1,800 MPa ultra-high tensile steel. This super-strength steel will debut in the Mazda CX-5 crossover SUV that will commence its global launch in early 2012. Read more >>

Avis certified as carbon neutral company

Avis, the car rental company, announced that it has renewed its position on carbon neutrality through The CarbonNeutral Company. Following three years of internal energy efficiency, carbon reduction and carbon offsetting to reduce its carbon footprint to net zero, Avis has achieved CarbonNeutral certification. Read more >>

EXCLUSIVE: New Brand Council of SA announces office bearers

The board of the new Brand Council of South Africa (BCSA) has elected HKLM's Sean McCoy as chairman, and Interbrand Sampson's Jeremy Sampson and Brand Leadership's Thebe Ikalafeng as joint vice chairs. The BCSA, incorporates the Brand Design Council (formerly known as THINK), was constituted after extensive debate around the need for a collective voice to represent, strengthen and advance the interests of the wider branding and design industry in SA, and it. Read more >>

Rolling Stone South Africa: the first in-depth interview

[Johann Smith] "Rolling Stone" - it was the writing on the wall found backstage at Rocking the Daisies. It was a hint, a secret, that the writer wanted musicians to know first, before anyone else. There is no way of saying it better: Rolling Stone magazine is coming to South Africa in November 2011. Johann Smith and Ruth Cooper of Bizcommunity.com's BizLounge speak to Miles Keylock, editor-in-chief of RS SA. Read more >>

South Africans are overweight - survey

South Africans weigh in as the third fattest nation on earth. A survey done in 2010 by Glaxo SmithKline has found that 61% of the South African population are overweight or morbidly obese. In addition to this survey, a study done by the Medical Research Council in 2007 found that 56% of adult women and 29% of adult men in South Africa were overweight or obese. Read more >>

Unions to picket at Wal-Mart/Massmart hearing

The Congress of SA Trade Unions' (Cosatu) and the SA Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers Union (Saccawu) on Monday announced their intention to embark on "mass pickets" at the Wal-Mart-Massmart appeal hearing in Cape Town set for Thursday and Friday, 21 - 22 October 2011. Read more >>