Carling Black Label is SA Favourite Beer Brand
- 31 August 2010 - 0 commentsCarling Black Label, one of the South African Breweries Limited’s (SAB) most popular brands, proved once again that it is South Africa’s favourite beer after claiming a first place in the coveted Sunday Times Top Brands Award Business to Consumer Category.
Zimbabwe economy may be bigger than thought
- 19 August 2010 - 0 commentsJust how big is the Zimbabwe economy and how upbeat should one be about growth prospects?
Famous Brands acquires Keg and McGintys
- 10 August 2010 - 0 commentsFamous Brands has acquired the franchise agreements, trademarks and intellectual property of the Keg and McGinty`s brands for a purchase consideration of R27 million. The acquisition will be funded through existing cash resources, marginally increasing the ratio of net borrowings to equity to 32% from the 28% reported at February 2010.
Famous Brands gets into chicken
- 2 August 2010 - 0 commentsAfter an exhaustive decade-long search, Famous Brands has finally secured its entry into the mainstream chicken category, with the acquisition of a peri peri flame grilled chicken offering, ‘Giramundo`, Portuguese for `around the world`. The transaction has an effective date of 1 August 2010.
Brandhouse backs SA entrepreneurs
- 2 July 2010 - 0 commentsEnterprise development in smaller towns in South Africa is set to receive some much needed attention. The launch of brandhouse™ Pitch & Polish, a new lateral-thinking competition will expose would-be entrepreneurs to enterprise development training and thinking, and provide benefits for all participants.
Entrepreneurs’ Organisation Cape Town have partnered with brandhouse™ Beverages (Pty) Ltd, a leading premium alcohol beverage company in South Africa to assist in providing the platform for South African entrepreneurs.
Absa Agribusiness expands its horizons into Africa
- 1 July 2010 - 0 commentsThe greatest long-term potential for global agricultural development lies in sub-Saharan Africa – and that is where Absa AgriBusiness is starting to focus.
“The time to invest in agriculture in Africa is now. There is substantial political will across the continent, as well as in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), to develop the agricultural sector – and financial institutions such as Absa have an important role to play in investment into agriculture,” says Absa Business Bank Chief Executive, Bobby Malabie.
Project Ironman – Nampak delivers super pack for SAB
- 17 June 2010 - 0 commentsSouth African Breweries (SAB) is not part of the FIFA sponsorship programme, but, through their flagship brand Castle Lager, are the premier sponsors of the South African soccer team (Bafana Bafana). This created a dilemma for the brewery giant, who needed something special for this year’s football fever.
ISO/IDF standard ensures milk fat content quality for all tastes
- 13 June 2010 - 0 commentsBefore adding that dollop of milk to our coffee or tea, filling up a cereal bowl, or reading the ingredients of any milk-based product, many will make a choice on the fat content of milk: skimmed, semi-skimmed or whole-fat?
CompComm calls on millers to settle cartel cases
- 3 June 2010 - 0 commentsThe Competition Commission calls on firms active in the milling of white maize and wheat to approach it for possible settlement of their cases. This is a once-off offer for firms that may have been involved in cartel activity in the milling sector to come clean and cooperate with the Commission. In return, a firm that fully cooperates with the Commission will receive favourable settlement terms. Cooperation means full disclosure of information, facts, communication and/or data relating to the firm’s participation in, or information about cartel activity in the milling of white maize and wheat.
FNB provides farmers with aggregate market price and volume information
- 3 June 2010 - 0 commentsFirst National Bank (FNB) Commercial Agriculture unveiled its latest online offering, FNB AgriCommodities, to farmers at The National Agricultural Maize Producers Organisation (NAMPO). FNB AgriCommodities is an electronic market information system that provides aggregate price and volume information for a variety of agricultural products sold at the country’s agricultural fresh produce markets.