Industry disruptors and brand winners
Rounding out September's
#InnovationMonth content theme, today's top story introduces you to
Biltong Board, a small business disrupting South Africa's biltong industry. I sat down with founder Maxime Eon recently to hear all about how the company links biltong lovers with over 70 producers of quality biltong product and his exciting plans to open a dedicated biltong bar in Cape Town's city centre this summer!
We also have the full winners list from the
2017 Sunday Times Top Brands survey. Congrats to KFC, winner of the Consumer Overall Favourite Brand Grand Prix, and Coca-Cola, which walked away with the Consumer Green Award as well as the Consumer Social Investment Award. Vodacom claimed the Business Overall Favourite Brand title.
The world's best product packaging was also awarded at the
Pentawards 2017 in Barcelona last week. Click through to see the cream of the crop in packaging design.
In other top news this week,
Pick n Pay now allows its customers the option of purchasing groceries on credit through its newly launched Store Account, a move that is seeing a fair amount of public criticism.
Opinion pieces worthy of a read this week: 'Integrated payments - the new holy grail for retailers' by
Mastercard SA's Victor De Kock, 'How SA's retailers can overcome stunted growth forecasts' by
Absa's Rod Salmon and 'Leveraging digital technology for a seamless, 360-degree customer journey' by
T-Systems SA's Lindy Lee.
Be sure to keep an eye on our
#EntrepreneurMonth special section which will be updated throughout October and November with African entrepreneurial success stories.
Enjoy!
Lauren Hartzenberg
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 | Alistair Anderson Shopping centre developers and landlords, as well as tenants, have to make radical changes in how they store and present their merchandise... read |
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 | Lindy Lee The retail shopping experience is no longer a linear one, where a person simply enters a store, makes a purchase and leaves... read |
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 | Mercy Mpinganjira Online shopping is becoming ubiquitous in many parts of the world. The internet today enables retailers to open online and serve customers at any time of the day... read |
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 | Issued by Expand a Sign Uzwelo beach bags are wide-strapped bags roomy enough to fit in everything a beach babe cannot live without. By buying one, you'll also improve people's lives and help the environment... read |
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 | Levi Strauss this week begins selling a denim jacket with touch controls woven into the fabric in the first fashion offering stitched from a collaboration with Google... read |
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 | The Absa Top 10 Olive Oil competition saw a panel of olive oil experts evaluate close to 90 South African olive oils from the 2017 harvest, culminating in the recognition of 10 exceptional extra virgin olive oils... read |
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 | Justin Probyn A little-known fact about Dutch beer-brewing company and global brand, Heineken, is that it sources half of its raw materials from local, small-scale farmers for its African operations... read |
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 | Marc Hasenfuss Stellenbosch-based investment company Remgro has disposed of the largest unlisted position in its R150bn portfolio... read |
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 | Ann Crotty The pending collapse of the Distell control structure should help the drinks company to enjoy the sort of rating analysts and shareholders say has eluded it in recent years... read |
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 | Anglo-Dutch food and consumer products giant Unilever said Monday it was buying a leading South Korean cosmetics and skincare company for €2.27 billion... read |
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 | Ruth Cooper It's not even been open a month, but the new East Asian inspired seafood grill eatery Firefish looks set to be the place to dine this summer season. read |
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 | According to Nhlanlha Nene, jobs are not created through government announcements, but by people using their resources to start and build businesses... read |
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 | Graham Coleman and Gianni Nosenzo of Cycliq in Wadeville were awarded the SAPRO trophy for the Best Recycled Product of the Year at the organisation's sixth biennial awards ceremony... read |
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 | Global food and beverage giant Nestle vowed on Tuesday, 26 September, to address allegations by Greenpeace that it was polluting the world's oceans with cheap plastic packaging for its Philippine products... read |
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 | Issued by Pyrotec Pyrotec PackMark has launched a new service, known as Line ID (Line Identification), to provide a fully integrated customised coding and labelling tracking system for its customers... read |
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 | Ann Crotty Katishi Masemola, general secretary of the Food and Allied Workers' Union, is hoping his members will bag an 18% stake in Coca-Cola Beverage South Africa (CCBSA), the largest Coca-Cola bottler in SA... read |
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 | Robert Laing Anheuser-Busch InBev's share price gained 2.3% to R1,620 after the Competition Tribunal conditionally approved Atlanta-based Coca-Cola's acquisition of SAB's shares in Coca Cola Beverage Africa (CCBA)... read |
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 | Nico Gous Companies that tamper with sell-by labels can be criminally prosecuted and fined... read |
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 | Issued by Nielsen Consumer confidence is stable despite the economy, job security concerns and increasing food prices leading to deferred spending and a longer-term focus on servicing debt and savings rather than spending... read |
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 | Danette Breitenbach It was all about being the best of best at this year's Sunday Times Top Brands Awards and this year the best of the best was Vodacom... read |
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 | Ikea has announced a deal to acquire on-demand help startup TaskRabbit as the world's largest furniture retailer grabbed a seat in the online sharing economy... read |
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 | According to John Lucas, country manager of DHL Express South Africa, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) need to make supply chain management part of their business plan if they want to succeed... read |
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 | Emile Uys Edible Growth is the food science creation of Eindhoven University of Technology graduate Chloé Rutzerveld. It is a critical look at current 3D-printing technology... read |
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 Come and join industry players at the Sixth CSIR Conference on 5, 6 October 2017 at the CSIR International Convention Centre. The theme is ‘ideas that work for industrial development'. Read more >>
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