Amid spiralling food costs with consumers already reeling from food price hikes, its expected that within a few weeks the cost of basic commodities such as cooking oil, soap and margarine are set to rise by 20% to 25% - pushing them out of the reach of more people. 14 Feb 2008
The Department of Health has vowed to get rid of price fixing by pharmaceutical companies in the country's health industry. 14 Feb 2008
A joint venture between Primedia Outdoor and Route-2-Market, both companies in the Primedia Out of Home stable, makes floor decal media platforms available for the first time at a South African airport terminal. 14 Feb 2008
Retail in the United Kingdom faces one of its toughest ever years as like-for-likes go negative. 13 Feb 2008
The establishment of the first BEE sheet plant in South Africa has been made possible by Nampak, Africa's largest packaging company. 13 Feb 2008
In the wake of yet another price-fixing scandal, this time one that allegedly involves its healthcare unit, the group has launched an independent probe into all its businesses, and the MD of Adcock Ingram Critical Care has been suspended with immediate effect. 13 Feb 2008
House of Busby shareholders vote for R1,3bn acquisition. 13 Feb 2008
The early success of the Magicmaid co-branding venture with Rapid Phase, under the Magicmaid Madam & Eve brand label in PnP Hypermarkets, has resulted in the brand now being made available in PnP supermarkets throughout the Gauteng and Free State regions. 13 Feb 2008
Government aims to strengthen competition legislation this year with the intention of becoming more “proactive” around anti-competitive outcomes and behaviour. 13 Feb 2008
As South Africa's energy source reaches crossroads, Oil Africa 2008 highlights key global issues such as peak oil and alternative energy sources. To ignore the future shock and its impact on costs and prices across the board, we need to look NOW at renewable sources of energy. And there's one clearly visible every day… 13 Feb 2008
Schools are much like big corporations. They deal with many of the same challenges, but they do not have the means, the management skills and the professionals to make them work as effectively. 13 Feb 2008
In a bid to promote the efficacy and versatility of its sports patches, Reckitt Benckiser launched its first Transact campaign with Unlimited subsidiary TLC in the last quarter of 2007. 13 Feb 2008
A group of 85 team members from Game Stores took the plunge at the Midmar Mile on February 9, raising R85,000 for Community Chest, which in turn donated the monies to a range of needy organisations. 13 Feb 2008
Vodacom and Research In Motion have introduced the new BlackBerry Pearl 8110 smartphone in South Africa. 13 Feb 2008
In January and February 2008, Trinco launched their back to school promotion, which is aimed at linking in to a key need amongst our target market - that is helping with educational expenses. This promotion ran in selected retail stores across Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal. 13 Feb 2008
At Mobile World Congress 2008, taking place in Barcelona, Spain, Nokia Siemens Networks is outlining its vision for the future of telecommunications markets and the innovative solutions that will drive that vision forward. 12 Feb 2008
Hot on the heels of being fined for colluding on the price of bread, consumer goods giant Tiger Brands' health-care unit Adcock Ingram and several smaller health-care groups are in the spotlight for the same offence. 12 Feb 2008
The consolidated contact center platform is the next step in providing improved availability of contact center resources at a lower cost. The four walls of the contact center are rapidly eroding... 12 Feb 2008
Fulfilment operations should not only be fast and efficient in the DC -- they should increase speed and efficiency of the downstream distribution process. For example, e-commerce fulfilment operations should be able to palletize orders with delivery truck routes in mind, and orders should "picked to plan-o-gram" of destination stores -- without additional capital expense, labour content or cycle time. 12 Feb 2008
Counting the hidden cost of power failures - or "load-shedding" as Eskom hilariously terms it... 12 Feb 2008
