The annual Waste Management conference and exhibition, run by the Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa (IWMSA), will take place on 4-8 October 2010 at Emperor's Palace Convention Centre, OR Tambo Airport, Johannesburg. 3 Feb 2010
The full results of the FHM Guy Awards 2010 are out now in the March issue of FHM. Readers have voted online for the best beverages and other consumables to favourite sporting events and teams. 3 Feb 2010
Agri-Vie, the sub-Saharan private equity fund investing in food and agribusiness, announced on Tuesday, 2 February 2010, it had acquired, for an undisclosed amount, a substantial equity stake in Dew Crisp, which has an estimated 28% share of the major supermarket convenience salad market in South Africa. 2 Feb 2010
In response to requests from shoppers around the country, Woolworths has just introduced a range of fashionable footwear in a wider fitting. 2 Feb 2010
A bid to import sable antelope from Zambia was delayed when the North Gauteng High Court ordered that a risk analysis relating to foot-and-mouth disease be done. 2 Feb 2010
WASHINGTON, USA: US book publisher Macmillan is raising its e-book prices in a move that threatens to shake up the market and is being strongly opposed by Amazon, maker of the Kindle electronic book reader. 2 Feb 2010
Manufacturing activity quickened for the sixth month in a row last month, and employment in the sector picked up for the first time since April 2008, a key industry survey showed this week. 2 Feb 2010
A small business panel was selected in 2007 by the Bureau of Market Research (BMR) of the University of South Africa (Unisa) and revisited in 2008 and 2009 to study small business sustainability and mortality amongst them within an increasingly competitive environment. 2 Feb 2010
Fashion and chocolate can go hand in hand, as designers Azeeza Choonara and Lauren Gravett showed when they created a dress from Lindt chocolate wrappers this month. 2 Feb 2010
Tiger Brands continues its Eat Well Live Well campaign, started late last year, by displaying a distinctive Eat Well Live Well logo on its products that meet the stringent dietary requirements of the Nutrition Information Centre University of Stellenbosch (NICUS). 2 Feb 2010
Fair Cape Dairies is hopeful that it has broken the Guinness World Record for the biggest tub of yoghurt in Canal Walk's Centre Court in Cape Town over the weekend with an enormous 500l tub of its Rooibos yoghurt. The current record was set in Germany in 1998 and contained 100l of strawberry yoghurt. Guinness World Records supplied strict guidelines that had to be adhered to for a successful new record and all evidence was sent to Guinness World Records headquarters in London for verification. 2 Feb 2010
“Transcend's new MP330 is one of the first MP3 players available that supports the renowned high quality FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) format, as well as MP3, WMA, WMA-DRM10 (DRM protected) and WAV files,” says Werner Joubert, personal systems and storage business manager, Rectron. 2 Feb 2010
South Africa looks set to become home to several top luxury brands despite the global recession. 1 Feb 2010
In today's culture of consumerism, bling and ubiquitous brands, it is refreshing to find people who are a tad more down to earth in their retail thinking. 1 Feb 2010
BEIJING, CHINA: Thousands of Chinese on Friday, 29 January 2010, flocked to a new chocolate theme park, gobbling the sweet treat and savouring the visual feast of replicas of the Great Wall, the Terracotta Army and even a sleek BMW. 1 Feb 2010
The first Climate Change Leadership Awards competition, which closed on 18 January 2010, has received 54 nominations in the business and 20 in the community categories for the award evening on 11 March at the Sandton Sun Hotel. The event will be a low carbon evening, with part of the proceeds going to Food & Trees for Africa to offset the 37 tons of CO2 per table through the planting of trees for disadvantaged communities. 1 Feb 2010
At the Product of the Year ceremony held in Johannesburg on Thursday 28 January 2010, Unilever received seven of the awards, which are based on the results of one of the largest independent surveys of its kind in South Africa conducted by A C Nielsen with approximately 5000 respondents. 1 Feb 2010
South African retailers should look to international counterparts as to how technology is being successfully leveraged to solve business problems and achieve the goals of the UK and US retail sectors, in the face of depressed consumer spending and increasing competition. 1 Feb 2010
South Africa recorded a trade surplus of R3.7 billion in December 2009, the South African Revenue Service (SARS) said on Friday, 29 January 2010. 1 Feb 2010
Consumers are continuing to avoid credit, data released by the SA Reserve Bank on Sunday, 31 January 2010, shows. 1 Feb 2010
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