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23 Feb 2021

How to use storytelling to build your brand in the digital age

With a bevvy of voices jostling for attention in the digital space, how do you get your brand to speak loud enough for your audience to hear you, and most importantly, take action? Or will big brash budgets always win? Enter the Science of Storytelling. Have you ever had your virtual hand up in an...
31 Mar 2020

Supermarket giant Choppies restructures to lift suspension

Choppies Enterprises Limited (CEL) is overhauling its corporate governance in preparation for the lifting of the suspension of trading in its shares in Botswana and Johannesburg by mid-year.
18 Mar 2020

Avocado growers celebrate the ancient history of avos this season

According to the THP 2020 Flavour & Trend Forecast*, Michelin star restaurants around the world will be increasingly seeking out traditional ingredients from some of the oldest civilizations this year, particularly Central and South America.
31 Jan 2020

Libstar focuses on future trends

Libstar’s chief growth officer Johan Greeff discusses the group’s strategy, positioning and opportunities for growth.
22 Nov 2019

TrueCommerce serves the essential ingredients to major food retailers

Conchita Foods chose TrueCommerce Integrated EDI for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central to serve its essential ingredients to major food retailers. The family-owned company, has offered essential ingredients for Hispanic kitchens since 1937. Its product line includes over 150 packaged food items, including sauces, juices, oils, cookies and cakes, pasta, beans, seafood and more. In...
06 Nov 2019

Conscious consumers are the key drivers of change

In 2018, Sir David Attenborough told the United Nations Climate Summit in Katowice, Poland that the collapse of civilisation and the natural world is on the horizon. ‘Right now, we’re facing a man-made disaster of global scale,’ Attenborough told delegates from almost 200 nations. ‘Our greatest threat in thousands of years: climate change.’
17 Sep 2019

South Africans celebrate Icon Brands despite complex consumer landscape

The Ask Afrika Icon Brands is the largest annual benchmark survey of its kind and, now in its 10th year, measures loyalty across 237 brand categories and thousands of brands.
12 Jul 2019

How corporate South Africa can curb the rise of mental illness in the workplace

Statistics released in May 2019 by The World Health Organisation (WHO) revealed that globally, an estimated 264 million people suffered from depression, which surprisingly is one of the leading causes of disability, with many of these people also suffering from symptoms of anxiety. Think about discussions you’ve been privy to at the water cooler.  Depression,...
29 Apr 2019

How supermarkets of the future can tackle the scandal of food waste

In addition to making food businesses more profitable, new technologies can also help tackle the fast-approaching issue of global food shortages. Bjorn Thumas, director Business Development at TOMRA Food, explains. 
01 Mar 2019

Sisonke Design Sprint application dates announced

Johannesburg packaging design agency, Stratcom Branding, has announced the opening date for applications for the Sisonke Design Sprint– a bi-annual social responsibility initiative which gives two 100 per cent black-owned SMME’s, a pro-bono packaging design every year. This year, they also challenge other members of the industry to join and partner with them in their...

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