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 | Qlik recently announced that Zehnder Group, an international manufacturer of heating, ventilation and cooling systems, and air cleaning solutions, uses QlikView group wide to analyse key performance indicators (KPIs) across their organisation. Read more >>
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 | Ever expanding and diversifying printing company, the Paarl Media Group has acquired a tissue plant in KwaZulu-Natal. Read more >>
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 | Astrapak (APK) said on Wednesday, 18 June 2014, it was in the process of signing an agreement to sell its Hilfort Plastics Cape Town business to Boxmore Plastics SA. Read more >>
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 | The Southern African Plastic Pipe Manufacturers Association (SAPPMA) and its subsidiary organisation, the Installation and Fabrication Plastics Pipe Association (IFPA) have jointly welcomed nine new members to their associations recently. Read more >>
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 | Over 8,800 people have experience a tour of Volkswagen Group South Africa's manufacturing factory in Uitenhage in comfort and style over the past year. Read more >>
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 | Growing the manufacturing sectors on the continent has a huge potential role to play in promoting economic and inclusive growth in African economies - due to its labour-intensive and export-focused nature. Read more >>
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 | Total income generated by the food and beverage industry in South Africa increased in nominal terms (current prices) by 6.4% year-on-year (y/y) in April‚ data from Statistics South Africa shows. Read more >>
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 | De Beers is using a 286-ton machine to suck up diamonds from the seabed off the Namibian coastline. Over the past decade the company has advanced the technology that has saved its marine mining business, but which has come too late for its South African sea venture. Read more >>
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 | The Bureau for Economic Research (BER) manufacturing business confidence index fell to 25 points in the second quarter of 2014 from 41 in the first quarter‚ with manufacturers at their most pessimistic since the fourth quarter of 2009. Read more >>
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 | Carol Paton The prospect of a tax on mining super-profits and other measures that would see more state intervention in the mining sector remain squarely on the agenda of the African National Congress (ANC) and South African Communist Party (SACP) in light of the protracted platinum strike. Read more >>
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 | Nick Hedley Invicta Holdings, a distributor of capital equipment‚ spare parts and engineering consumables‚ will need to raise equity to partly fund any large acquisitions it undertakes as it sets out to earn 50% of its revenue outside South Africa. Read more >>
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 | The fall in the FNB/BER building confidence index indicates that conditions in the building industry have deteriorated further. The index fell by 11 points to 41 in the second quarter. Read more >>
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 | Arthur Goldstuck Few technology topics generate as much noise as wearables, mostly to do with brands known for their consumer products, such as Samsung, Sony and Apple. Read more >>
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 | The days of being able to lie to an unwanted telephone caller: "Sorry, I can't talk, I'm in the car" are about to end. Read more >>
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: Amazon has unveiled its "Fire Phone," a high-end handset boasting what it claims are "breakthrough technologies" in a move aimed at challenging Apple and Samsung. Read more >>
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 | Tshwane has established laboratories to stimulate innovation and encourage young people to take up careers in science and engineering. Read more >>
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