Nampak made use of ComutaNet's media platforms to bring the Cuddler's promise to moms and moms-to-be across South Africa. The multi-level campaign used advertisements on rank TV, in-queue promotions and exterior taxi advertising. 5 Mar 2008
The world's leading entertainment brand is coming to the Rand Show 2008 at the Johannesburg Expo Centre, Nasrec from 21 March to 6 April 2008. 5 Mar 2008
Social media can be a powerful marketing force, but a new study from OneUpWeb finds that companies can easily make mistakes that alienate potential customers, or worse, simply fail to follow through with new content. 5 Mar 2008
Ster-Kinekor Games, the distributors of PlayStation hardware and software and PC software across South Africa again teamed up with TLC, washroom advertising experts, for the launch of various gaming titles. 5 Mar 2008
SABMiller is not supporting any political campaign in Zimbabwe and neither has this been under consideration. 4 Mar 2008
The South African Breweries (SAB) today announced it would introduce a new brand, Skelter's Straight, to the South African market. This follows the successful launch of brand variant Sarita Ruby Dry in January this year and a new peach variant of Brutal Fruit in November 2007. 4 Mar 2008
Robots are already taken for granted in Japanese factories, so much so that they are sometimes welcomed on their first day at work with Shinto religious ceremonies. Robots make sushi. Robots plant rice and tend paddies. 4 Mar 2008
IBM invites musicians to compose songs about South Africa using internet technology. 4 Mar 2008
Retail-focused Hyprop Investments reported a record 20% distributions increase for the year to December, to 270c a unit. It said yesterday that in the past 20 years it had delivered average distribution growth of 9,9% a year. 4 Mar 2008
In the latest sign the music distribution business continues to be roiled by change, Nine Inch Nails has released its new album in a variety of formats, including giving part of it away on file-sharing technologies such as BitTorrent. 4 Mar 2008
Liberty Promenade Shopping Centre, a 51,000m² shopping centre situated in the heart of Mitchells Plain and visited by an average of 1 million customers per month, is owned by Liberty Group, well known for encouraging and sponsoring educational aspirations. 4 Mar 2008
RBA Holdings Limited (RBA) has announced their maiden Annual Results, for the year period ending 31 December 2007, since listing on AltX in September 2007. 4 Mar 2008
Want to prepare a traditional meal with a spicy African or Spanish twist? With All Gold's new African and Spanish Style Diced Tomatoes, you can spice up your meals in no time. Crammed full of flavour and quality ingredients, these new flavours have been crafted to add zest to your casseroles, salads, stews and even paellas with no effort at all. 4 Mar 2008
The launch of the new Smart fortwo sees Wideopen Platform taking a leading role in its fully integrated advertising campaign. 4 Mar 2008
Aqua Bimini - an anti-ageing water which is formulated to work to protect your body at cellular level from the degenerative effects of day-to-day living and stress - has been listed in both Wellness Warehouse and Global Wrapps. 4 Mar 2008
Calling South Africa's businesswomen... How do you rate against your counterparts in other parts of the world? 4 Mar 2008
From a payment point of view, money should be fundable and extractable from the virtual world at any point in time. Credit cards are usually used to convert real money into the virtual currency in order to fund the account. In addition, increasingly more Internet wallet type of payment instruments are used to fund virtual accounts. 4 Mar 2008
Volvo is widely recognised as one of only a few brands that have summited the Everest of Brand Positioning i.e. it has succeeded globally in owning a single-minded, relevant and sustainable idea in the mind of a valuable market segment. Well, a recent dysfunctional experience with the brand dismantled something that took over 50 years and millions of dollars to build. Albeit, in the mind of one customer. 4 Mar 2008
Overcoming inbox clutter is no small feat today, said Amy Black, president of DigitalFX, which operates the HelloWorld.com social networking site. It offers businesses the chance to use video e-mail, among other tools, to market themselves. "E-mails are commonplace, often ignored and in many cases dreaded." In contrast, she said, video e-mail is "one way to almost assure a message will be seen and heard." 3 Mar 2008
Although the South African government's Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) is on track to achieve its main objective of creating one million jobs for the poor by 2009, significant and sustained poverty alleviation is unlikely, according to an independent review of the project. 3 Mar 2008
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