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|  | | Popular South African retailer Game celebrates 50 years of trade this year...read |
|  | | Mondelez International is bolstering its regional leadership by appointing a new president of sub-Saharan Africa and managing director in SA...read |
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| |  | ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM This July #BizUnity Month will replace the former Mandela Month but, still, retain the same objectives - focusing on companies standing together for good! This is a prime opportunity for a sponsor to be seen to be standing up and together for SA business... Read |  | ISSUED BY BSK MARKETING While most South African's are feeling the pressures from the Covid-19 pandemic, it seems like the stokvel market segment is dancing to a different tune... Read |  | ISSUED BY BORDERLESS ACCESS As South Africa, along with the rest of the world, strives to jump-start the economy after its unprecedented hiatus, Borderless Access shares the financial and banking behaviour of our citizens... Read |
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 | Pep Stores has kickstarted the initiative with a R1m contribution... Read |
| Design & Manufacturing |
 | While the South African furniture manufacturing sector has endured some tough times in recent years, there are still significant financial incentives for high-quality projects. Read |
 | In a move to support local manufacturing and small enterprises, Dis-Chem Pharmacies will outsource the production of its staff uniforms via a small manufacturing incubator... Read |
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 | The V&A Waterfront is partnering with Pargo, a click and collect service provider, to offer an alternative for shoppers who want to avoid possible exposure to Covid-19 by queuing in shops, but who still want to collect their own goods... Read |
 | Diesel has launched Hyperoom, a 360-degree digital sales platform and exhibition space designed to create "immersive and emotional engagements" with fashion buyers... Read |
 | ISSUED BY DPO SOUTH AFRICA As shoppers continue to embrace e-commerce, payment specialist, DPO South Africa, has announced the addition of a digital credit payment option, Mobicred, to its PayGate Plus fully managed payment solution... Read |
 | OneDayOnly.co.za has recorded 40% growth over the last four months, as consumers' shifted to online retail channels... Read |
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 | Beating fierce competition from eight countries around the globe, including France, New Zealand and Italy, the Durbanville Hills Blanc de Blancs triumphed over 45 entries... Read |
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 | ZOË POSTMAN New Era says refusal to work constituted an unprotected strike by workers... Read |
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 | Small Business Development Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni says her department has formalised over 2,000 spaza shops during the Covid-19 pandemic... Read |
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 | TANIA BROUGHTON Fees charged by liquidators and business rescue practitioners, and the impact they can have on bottom line payouts to affected employees, came under the spotlight at Monday's meeting to consider a business rescue model for Edcon... Read |
 | To relieve some of the pressure on cash-constrained households, Pick n Pay says it will invest R500m to reduce the prices of essential and staple food items... Read |
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 | Statistics South Africa reports that retail trade sales increased by 2,7% year-on-year in March 2020. The better-than-expected improvement in sales follows a rise in panic buying... Read |
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 | ANDREW DAWSON In the digital age, data is a currency all on its own. The retail sector has lagged in leveraging the value of real time data, due to a number of factors... Read |
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 | Amid analogies about his trademark aloe ferox and a hippo's gaping jaws, Finance Minister Tito Mboweni delivered a bleak supplementary budget that was a little light on detail... Read |
 | Unemployment in South Africa rose to 30.1% in the first three months of 2020, Statistics South Africa has revealed... Read |
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George Bernard Shaw "Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time." Thomas A. Edison "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." Gordon B. Hinckley "You have not failed until you quit trying." Gordon B. Hinckley "Try a little harder to be a little better." Jesse Owens "We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort." |
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