Mother City retains Loeries, Creative Week to expand
In a four-way pitch against Ballito in KwaZulu-Natal, Johannesburg and Sun City, Cape Town has emerged triumphant to retain The Loerie Awards in the Mother City. The Loeries Judging Week and Seminars will also move from Johannesburg to Cape Town, so that judging will take place during Creative Week in the days leading up to [...]
Shoprite honours top suppliers for 2011
The Shoprite Group of Companies paid tribute to their suppliers at its 2011 Supplier Awards held in Stellenbosch on Saturday, 26 November. This glamorous ceremony, held annually, provides an opportunity for the Group to recognise suppliers for their unstinting support and collaborative approach toward the company’s business during the past year. The following suppliers were [...]
SA flexes green energy muscles
Cape Town – The 15 000 delegates to the UN climate change conference convening in Durban next week will get a glimpse of South Africa’s growing “green” awareness as soon as they fly into the airport. The new solar panels gracing the roofs of buildings there are part of the largest photovoltaic facility in Africa, [...]
Plastics|SA wins Enviropedia award for recycling
Plastics|SA, the umbrella body representing the plastics industry of South Africa, was awarded the 2011 Enviropaedia Award for Recycling at the inaugural Eco-Logic Awards ceremony which took place in Cape Town on Saturday evening in partnership with The Greenest Event expo. “We are honouring companies and individuals who are helping us fight both the symptoms [...]
Successful South African Fairtrade week to become an annual event
Fairtrade Label South Africa (FLSA) is glad to announce that South Africa’s first Fairtrade Week was a successful campaign and is set to become a part of the organisations annual events calendar. The aim of Fairtrade Week was to promote Fairtrade locally and celebrate the positive changes Fairtrade brings to farming communities, businesses and consumers [...]
Winning wines at WineX 2011
Every year – since the launch of RMB WineX in 2000 – the Sandton CBD comes alive in late October to embrace the one wine show which delivers the best wines and the greatest deals. Even in the face of the Economic Freedom march on Thursday 27th October (the second day of the show), 12 [...]
POPAI SA Conference calls for industry collaboration
By Laura Durham “We need to see a true collaboration between brands and competitors and retailers on and offline to deliver customer experience. Collaboration is the new customer solution.” Craig Lodge, CEO of BrandsInTrade was addressing a group of marketers, point-of-sale (POS) agencies and retail representatives at the POPAI (Point of Purchase Advertising International) Annual [...]
Willow Creek quality and packaging ingenuity wins gold
Willow Creek Olive Estate is indeed well-oiled when it comes to winning awards. Their most recent victories in a year of prize winning highlights are a gold medal from the prestigious SA Gold Pack Awards as well as two Fairlady Consumer Awards. Their pioneering Gourmet Squeeze olive oil bottle, containing their acclaimed Estate Blend, wooed [...]
[Sustainability media seminar]: Business’s role in sustainability
Sustainability is the process of meeting the needs of current generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs, Nedbank head of sustainability Brigitte Burnett told journalists this week, quoting a definition from the 1987 Brundtland Commission. She was speaking at the sustainability media seminar hosted by Nedbank at its headquarters [...]
Sunday Times Business Times Top 100 Companies
On 25 October 2011, the top four category winners of the Sunday Times Business Times Top 100 Companies were announced at a gala dinner in Sandton. The top company for 2011 is mining holding company Assore Limited, Business Leader of the Year is Whitey Basson, CEO of Shoprite Holdings, the 2011 Lifetime Achiever Award went [...]
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