This week's clutch of featured industry research from the just-food store highlights commodities data from agribusiness specialists LMC International. It also includes in-depth looks at Carrefour's operations in Spain and Wal-Mart Stores' ...
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South Africa-based converter of flexible packaging materials CTP flexibles has added three more 1350mm wide Titan ER610's slitters. In 2010,the company installed a new 8 color Fischer&Krecke FP16-S flexo printing press,and in order to ...
Opened in 1997 by Nelson Mandela,the multi award winning Durban ICC celebrated its 15th anniversary with a Grand Banquet.With 33000sq.m of space available to clients,the Exhibition Centre is the largest flat floor,column-free ...
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South Africa-based non-life insurer Santam has selected Guidewire Software PolicyCenter as its new underwriting and policy administration solution. In addition to Guidewire Rating Management to benefit more precise rating and pricing ...
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White/white pearl dominates the global automotive color popularity ranks for the second consecutive year,according to the 2012 DuPont Automotive Color Popularity Report,released today.Black/black effect moves into second place in the global ...
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In a first for African retail,the World Wide Fund for Nature South Africa(WWF-SA)and Woolworths have announced a broad-based,multifaceted partnership to drive greater sustainability through selected Woolworths products and operations.The ...
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South African retailer Woolworths Holdings has forecast its annual earnings could increase by up to 30% on the back of higher sales and gains from foreign exchange. Woolworths said its headline earnings per share - a key financial metric ...
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South African poultry group Astral Foods has booked a 23% drop in full-year earnings on higher grain prices and greater competition from European and South American poultry importers. Net income fell to ZAR392m (US$38m) in the year to end ...
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The circumstance and manner of death are numbing:farmers hacked and mutilated by machetes,dragged to death behind vehicles,stabbed with farm tools,shot execution style,and more—much more. The death toll of white farmers murdered in ...
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Bloomberg reported that South Africa’s Cabinet endorsed measures that seek to cut local steel prices including the possibility of new export taxes on steel and iron ore. A group set up by the Department of Trade and Industry in 2010 ...
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IDG News Service-Foxconn Technology Group is considering expanding its existing manufacturing operations in the U.S.,in a move that could be linked with Apple's plan to bring back Mac manufacturing to the country. Foxconn made the ...
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Woolworths South Africa, in partnership with Africa’s post-consumer plastic recycling firm Extrupet, rolled out new sustainable shopping bags for its product packaging. The newly unveiled reusable shopping bags, made from 100% rPET ...
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International retail unit of the global insurance broker, Willis International has expanded its business with the creation of three regional business units under a new and expanded leadership. Willis International has appointed Adam ...
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Packaging design, development and manufacturing company Sirane has announced the expansion of its presence with the opening of a new operation in South Africa, which will operate out of Cape Town. Sirane Southern Africa head Stacey Loader ...
Baobab plans to invest a new pig iron mill in Mozambique. It's known that new plant is defined at Tenge/Ruoni in Mozambique, firmly establishing the prospect area as a standalone asset. This project will make the plant to become ...
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