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08 Feb 2016

An Engaging Experience…but where do you start?

Pick up any magazine or read retail reports on the web you will find that many reports state that to attract the consumer of today you need to provide an engaging experience. It clearly is more than price and selling ‘stuff’. We need to rethink through the experience, but where do you start? John Stanley...
08 Feb 2016

Hammanskraal Build it ‘win a house’ competition winner announced

For the third year, Hammanskraal Build it have run their ‘win a house’ competition where shoppers get an entry for every purchase of R1000-00 or more.
04 Feb 2016

New appointment at SAPITI

Tara Benn has been appointed Administrative Assistant: Technical Programmes for the SA Paint Industry Training Institute (SAPITI).
04 Feb 2016

Sapma urges action against toxic lacquer thinners

The South African Paint Manufacturing Association (SAPMA) has again urged the government to ban the use of methanol in the manufacture of hazardous lacquer thinners, which is freely available to the general public.
04 Feb 2016

Any tint you’d like

Tinting is the mixture of tint bases and colourants or pastes, however, achieving that colour is a process of stringent controls. We speak to the expert tinting companies behind this technology.
19 Jan 2016

The implication of ‘water shedding’ on business

Drought conditions have many devastating effects on communities and the surrounding environment. According to George Davis, Head of Construction and Engineering at Risk Benefit Solutions (RBS), a South African independent insurance and risk specialist, the impact is evident with the implementation of water restrictions in Gauteng since last month.
14 Dec 2015

Versatile truck set to be a game changer

FUSO Trucks Southern Africa recently unveiled the light to medium-duty FUSO FA9–137 truck.
14 Dec 2015

The success of Matus benefits many

A successful cash-back incentive and the donation campaign for charities run by Matus has sadly come to an end.
14 Dec 2015

Cedar Paint launches an industry first

Cedar Paint has launched an industry first – a coating that can highlight itself as a Cedar Paint product. 
14 Dec 2015

A new way to display

Stanley Black & Decker now offer the ‘next generation’ in retail display formats by uplifting the face of tool displays in independent retailers with their shop-in-shop displays.

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