BEIJING, CHINA: China plans to cater to the country's rising number of chocoholics with the opening next year of a Willy Wonka-style theme park in Beijing, complete with a replica Great Wall, state media said. 21 Sep 2009
A long time favourite at the V&A Waterfront, Balducci's has created new menus to capture tourist and local taste buds by combining Italian pizzazz with African zing. 21 Sep 2009
Washroom frames, already capable of communicating verbally with customers, now go one further and offer samples. The 'Tester Units' are attached to TLC's trademark A4 washroom frames and strategically installed at basins and mirrors, giving consumers an instant opportunity to sample aerosols, liquid hand soap, shaving gel and virtually any bottled personal product. 21 Sep 2009
The 25th Nedbank CWG (Cape Winemakers Guild) Auction will be held at the Spier Conference Centre in the Stellenbosch Winelands on Saturday, 3 October 2009, and the organisers have reported that a wave of buyers, including private collectors, has registered early. 21 Sep 2009
The enormously successful Earth Hour Campaign run on 28 March 2009 by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) scooped the Mail & Guardian Greening the Future Award in the category Environmental Best Practice in Non-Profit Organisations on Thursday, 10 September 2009. 21 Sep 2009
Nedbank Small Business Services will tour its successful Small Business Management seminars around South Africa from 12 - 29 October 2009. Entrance is free to small business owners seeking the practical advice and knowledge of the speakers. 21 Sep 2009
Higher food import tariffs aimed at protecting local producers — and new export taxes on primary produce aimed at boosting local manufacture — are on the cards, judging by a confidential department of trade & industry (DTI) document. 18 Sep 2009
At the 13th Annual African Congress of Shopping Centres in Sandton on Wednesday 16 September 2009, the South African Council of Shopping Centres (SACSC) awarded Gerald Leissner the Lifetime Achievement Award. 18 Sep 2009
The 2009 Really Awesome Gaming Expo (rAge) will take place 2 - 4 October 2009 at the Coca-Cola Dome in Northgate, Johannesburg. Highly rated for bringing together the most popular and cutting-edge computer and videogames, technology, gadgets and lifestyle entertainment products, it is said to be the largest ever. 18 Sep 2009
HILLEROD, DENMARK: Foss, one of the world's leading providers of analytical instruments for the food, agricultural, chemical and pharmaceutical industries, announced on Wednesday, 16 September 2009, that it has extended the availability of its software functionality to spot adulterated raw milk. 18 Sep 2009
A new high-end parfum, Idiom by Tammy, is possibly the world's first to be inspired by wine and is the result of a partnership between the Bottega family's Idiom wines and Tammy Frazer of Frazer Parfum. 18 Sep 2009
The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) did not go unaffected by the global financial meltdown in the last financial year, according to the bank's Governor, Tito Mboweni. 18 Sep 2009
There are exciting days ahead for e-commerce. An impressive set of innovations need only to be pulled together for companies to move to a new, high-powered level of functionality. Underlying all of the advances are the concepts of Software as a Service (Saas) and Platform as a Service. In short, everything is going to the cloud. 18 Sep 2009
Making sure that every customer gets the personal touch may be fairly easy for the owner of a neighborhood bakery, but in a mass market of millions, making each customer feel like an individual is a formidable challenge. In the information age, tools like customer relationship management software make it possible for companies to apply a personal touch to the mass market - and that's golden. 18 Sep 2009
Twenty-five year old Capetonian Marize Malan is one step closer to her designer dreams, having scooped the Elle New Talent Award 2009 at Sanlam SA Fashion Week on Wednesday night, 16 September. The awards, held in association with Mr Price offer the winner an opportunity to join the ranks of top emerging South African designers. 18 Sep 2009
The Competition Commission's recent launch of probes into possible collusion in industries including steel, construction, petroleum and retail, has raised questions about the practices of industry associations that foster co-operation within domestic and overseas markets. 17 Sep 2009
The worst may be over for Kings Mall in Gonubie as a turnaround strategy is being implemented by the provisional liquidators to attract tenants back to the shopping centre. 17 Sep 2009
South Africa's textile industry will have to adapt to compete at the quality end of the textile industry, the Inkatha Freedom Party said on Wednesday, 16 September 2009. 17 Sep 2009
MADRID, SPAIN: Spain's Inditex, Europe's largest clothing retailer, said on Wednesday, 16 September 2009, it would start selling its flagship Zara brand clothes over the Internet later this year in selected European markets. 17 Sep 2009
Results from the latest Bureau for Economic Research (BER) retail survey reveal that retailer confidence declined sharply during the third quarter of 2009, falling from 47 to an eight-year low of 35 index points. 17 Sep 2009
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