BRUSSELS: The Mediterranean tuna fishing season will be 15 days shorter this year with quotas and fleets also cut, EU sources said Wednesday, 15 April 2009; but environmentalists complained it was too little, too late. 16 Apr 2009
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has added chisa nyama to his recipe book after visiting Guguletu's famous Mzoli's Place restaurant. 16 Apr 2009
The Department of Trade and Industry said Wednesday, 15 April 2009, it was still in consultation over what specific measures to take to rescue the ailing motor industry, which is facing a deepening crisis. 16 Apr 2009
New SBI market research report "Sustainable ('Green') Packaging Market for Food and Beverage Worldwide, 2nd Edition" examines the many gains that have been made in the food and beverage sustainable packaging markets since SBI reported on it in 2006. 16 Apr 2009
Retail trade figures for the month of February decreased by 4.5%, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) reported on Wednesday, 15 April 2009. 15 Apr 2009
Traditional contact centre infrastructure vendors face few greenfield opportunities in the large enterprise market in mature geographies. This, according to independent market analyst Datamonitor, has caused them to change their sales and marketing strategies, focusing much less on the benefits of the transition from time division multiplexing (TDM) to internet protocol (IP) and much more on topics such as unified communications (UC) for the contact centre and ways to connect the enterprise with the branch and the contact centre. 15 Apr 2009
Nestlé recently introduced two of its international breakfast cereals, Cheerios and Milo, in South Africa. 15 Apr 2009
Online shopping portal Digital Mall aims to increase turnover fivefold in the next two years as mobile shopping becomes a reality in SA and on the continent. 15 Apr 2009
The Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers' Union (Sactwu) on Tuesday, 14 April 2009, expressed its outrage at the announcement that manufacturer Seardel would close some of its divisions. 15 Apr 2009
Food and furniture retailer the Shoprite Group has been rapped on the knuckles by nongovernmental organisation Bench Marks Foundation for running outlets that do not give back to the local economy. 15 Apr 2009
FRANKFURT: The Woolworth department store chain has been placed under administration in Germany, a Frankfurt court said on Tuesday, three months after the group's last British store shut down. 15 Apr 2009
For the beer purists at SABMiller, brewing a lager with anything less than 100% barley malt fills them with horror. 15 Apr 2009
International specialist banking group, Investec, boosted ticket sales for the FIFA Confederations Cup when it purchased 50,000 tickets for the tournament. 15 Apr 2009
Pampers is launching its new Active Baby range with stretch to ensure babies are kept dry during sleep and play. 14 Apr 2009
South African men have voted Bar-One the best chocolate bar in the country, in FHM's SA 2009 Guy Awards. 14 Apr 2009
Manufacturing and retail group Rex Trueform would benefit by cleaning up its holding structure, and could strip out its remaining factory, say analysts. 14 Apr 2009
I almost couldn't have imagined it. I give myself a little leeway, but after years of writing and talking about "new, new things" it didn't really dawn on me that at some point we'd be talking about a new, new economy - but we are. 14 Apr 2009
One of the misconceptions of the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and broader cloud computing market is that these new web-based services will "disintermediate" the channel because of their simpler, more user-friendly solutions, and direct sales and delivery business models. 14 Apr 2009
In what is seen as a watershed for the textiles industry, SA's largest clothing and textile manufacturer, Seardel, has announced the closure of Frame Textiles. 14 Apr 2009
An indefinate strike by members of SA's four major transport unions was likely to cripple SA's biggest food chain store, Kevin Korb, director of food merchandise at Pick n Pay, said yesterday, 13 April 2009. 14 Apr 2009
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