Depending on which technology blog you read, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse is either engaging in pre-Palm Pre marketing hype or covering up some major smartphone production problems. 26 May 2009
In Part 1 I covered how the Harvard Business Review showed that people are not as price savvy as we may think, and there are some opportunities to increase margins in these difficult times as a result. So what does this have to do with character licensing and my company, retail agency Revolution? 25 May 2009
Foodcorp's Nola division has upgraded the packaging of its Yum Yum Smooth peanut butter bulk packaging containers. 25 May 2009
Fore Good and The Harding Group have announced their first activation for Pringles following the announcement that Procter & Gamble's leading snack brand will be sold and marketed in South Africa by the local FMCG group. The new campaign was developed from a total tactile perspective reinforcing the brand's unique value proposition. 25 May 2009
Food and beverage group Pioneer Foods on Monday, 25 May 2009, reported interim diluted headline earnings per share for the six months ended March 2009 of 166.4 cents, up from 140.0 cents during the previous period. 25 May 2009
PARIS: Global mobile phone sales fell a record 8.6% in the first quarter to 269 million units and will likely decline 4.2% for the full year, the Gartner research group said. 25 May 2009
BOGOTA: Coffee production in Colombia, the world's number two producer of the beans, plunged 33% in the first four months of 2009, with exports sinking by 21%, officials said. 25 May 2009
JSE-listed property loan stock company Acucap Properties has entered into an agreement to acquire a further undivided half share in the Bayside Mall in Cape Town from Old Mutual Life Assurance for R280m. 25 May 2009
Supply chain business Super Group announced last week that shareholders had approved the resolutions relating to the rights offer in which Super Group will raise approximately R1 billion through the issue of new shares. 25 May 2009
The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) faces an intractable competition conundrum as it considers bailing out textile producer Frame Textiles, a subsidiary of SA's largest clothing maker, Seardel. 25 May 2009
Retailers and manufacturers in the clothing and textile industry have at last agreed to work together to test the commercial feasibility of sourcing more apparel and fabric locally. 25 May 2009
Claremart Auction Group will soon sell the building that houses one of Cape Town's most frequented seaside restaurants. CEO Jonathan Smiedt says the landmark site — which includes the Sandbar, located on the Camps Bay promenade — will be auctioned next Tuesday, 26 May 2009, at noon. 22 May 2009
The Department of Trade and Industry has finally launched the clothing and textiles customised sector programme, or CSP, a huge task that has been four years in the making, to prop up the perennially embattled industry. 22 May 2009
The world's second biggest brewer, SABMiller plc, on Wednesday, 20 May 2009, announced that Dr Dambisa Moyo has agreed to join the SABMiller board as an independent non-executive director. 22 May 2009
The Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality is to increase property rates by 13% from 1 July. 22 May 2009
Kellogg's Corn Flakes has refreshed its image by upgrading the design of its packaging. The distinctive packaging will be available in-stores next month with the aim of making it contemporary, discernible on shelves and easy on the eye. 22 May 2009
Two things that online shopping has going for it: You can probably find just about anything for sale online, and you don't even have to get dressed to buy it. Working against it are having to wait for it to get shipped to you, and the fact that shipping sometimes adds a few bucks to the price you pay. 22 May 2009
BERLIN: Century-old German department store chain Hertie, owned by British financial group Dawnay Day, said it was going out of business and closing all 54 of its stores. 22 May 2009
How can IT departments keep a grip on security when employees are using an ever-expanding variety of mobile devices with no commonality in terms of hardware, platforms or applications? Centralized management is essential, but accomplishing that goal can be daunting. A few best practices are emerging, though. 22 May 2009
"Given that electronic distribution of music will not overtake physical products until sometime in the next decade, there is a need currently to consider options to reduce the environmental impact of CD packaging,” states the executive summary of Comparing Packaging Options for Compact Discs: An Environmental and Toxicological Assessment - a new report from the Sustainable Packaging Working Group (SPWG). 22 May 2009
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