The Production Price Index (PPI) came in at 10.4% year-on-year (y/y) in January, reported Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) on Thursday, 6 March 2008. 6 Mar 2008
Female shoppers in upmarket Sandton City had to do a double-take in the ladies washroom when Joe Public executed a cleverly applied door wrap for client Italtile. 6 Mar 2008
Celebrity chef Reza Mahammad, whose flamboyant style attracted thousands of fans to last year's inaugural Sunday Times Food Show, returns to this year's show, which promises to be even bigger and better in 2008. 6 Mar 2008
In travel, it is important to recruit good talent, develop it, retain it and recognise it. 6 Mar 2008
As the rates hike and other costs consumers face… food, fuel, bonds etc… rise, the impact is being to be felt by clothing retailers that sell on credit. 6 Mar 2008
Businesses within the growing small-to-medium space are under pressure to adapt general modus operandi and business models to suit new conditions in the IT market. So claims Robert Sussman, joint MD at Integr8 IT, South Africa's largest privately owned national BEE ICT network integration and infrastructure management specialist. 6 Mar 2008
US brewer, Miller Brewing, claims it has created the first loyalty program of its kind for the beer category, which allows consumers to earn redeemable points when they purchase specially marked packs of beer. 6 Mar 2008
"Social shopping sites are definitely already more semantic than general Web 2.0 sites," Wishpot CEO Max Ciccotosto told the E-Commerce Times. "They do a lot of interesting things with the concept of 'product'; they are able to scrape for this info, parse it, etc. They are filtered gateways." 6 Mar 2008
About a year ago, when Jamie Leventhal was trying to convince big chain stores to stock his new line of shaving gels for young men, a buyer for Target asked a crucial question: How much would he spend on advertising? “I told him we would not spend a single dollar,” Leventhal said. 6 Mar 2008
The popularity of social networking has grown dramatically over the past few years. MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn currently offer advertisers access to over 160 million active users in total. New research based on Dynamic Logic's AdReaction 2007 study, which measures consumer perceptions of various forms of advertising in the US and across parts of Europe, suggests that these social networking Web sites present a unique platform where brands can connect with consumers. 6 Mar 2008
Pick n Pay takes top spot in the best investor relations website awards. 6 Mar 2008
In participation of the Lapdesk Challenge, a public-private partnership that provides portable desks to learners, Old Mutual SA Retail Mass Market division is donating 60 000 lapdesks worth R3 million to 74 schools in all nine provinces. 6 Mar 2008
Consumers who were duped into paying postage for Homemark products they did not order will now have protection. 6 Mar 2008
This article relates to the United States, but it has lessons too for South African website owners. 6 Mar 2008
South Africans are spending close to 60% of total household expenditure on food, housing and transport. 5 Mar 2008
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is not just a technical approach to building, integrating and delivering software systems. It's an initiative that will have impacts on IT processes (planning, project management, design, development, deployment, operations, and change management) and on the IT organization (bodies that have responsibility and authority to drive service reuse, manage quality issues and collaborate with business teams). 5 Mar 2008
In 2008, a growing number of SOA deployments will start to adopt open source, such as messaging and service enablement SOA products, and investigate one or more of the cloud-based services available. It also seems likely that SOA deployments will start to adopt some of the newer products based on the large Web site scale out techniques to increase performance, scalability and reliability. 5 Mar 2008
The results of a critical study of global FMCG company Unilever's economic footprint in South Africa is expected to create the impetus for other multinationals and large businesses to reconsider how they create and share wealth. 5 Mar 2008
Late 2005 saw the first malls in South Africa go live with Bluetooth as location-based marketing communication medium. The idea is to use Bluetooth to communicate relevant retail and mall communications to accepting customers' cellphones. 5 Mar 2008
More than 100 traders have pledged their full support for the Cape Town's plans to develop Greenmarket Square into a world class tourist and market attraction. One of the developments discussed on Monday, 3 March, was the City's request to the traders to form a Greenmarket Square Trading Association whose main purpose would be to develop the market for the benefit of all traders. 5 Mar 2008
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