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Herbicide ban will cost SA farming billions - expert

Written by Super User on 01 June 2015. Posted in No Category Tags.

Staff Writer: By: Dane McDonald

The farming and the agrochemical sectors stand to lose billions of rands if glyphosphate is prohibited, after a World Health Organisation finding of possible carcinogenicity.

Pick n Pay scrap with Massmart is ‘all in the past’

Written by Super User on 22 April 2015. Posted in No Category Tags.

Staff Writer: By Banele Ginindza

Retailer Pick n Pay believes that the fight with Massmart over retail lease exclusivity clauses, where it is anchor tenant, is now all in the past.

New energy producer enters SA

Written by Super User on 25 March 2015. Posted in No Category Tags.

Staff Writer: By Banele Ginindza

Former Massmart chief executive Grant Pattison has become the executive chairman of the local arm of NRG Energy, the New York Stock Exchange-listed company that intends to take advantage of South Africa’s problems with power.

Saving SA’s poultry industry is worth doing

Written by Super User on 24 March 2015. Posted in No Category Tags.

Staff Writer: by Jorge Maia

The past couple of weeks have seen lively interaction on poultry-related issues affecting the review of the extension of the US’s African Growth and Opportunity Act. The importance of the act for the economies of sub-Saharan Africa, including SA, as well as the US, is well documented and it is critical that it be extended for a further 15 years, with SA among the beneficiaries.

The biggest pumpkin in South Africa!

Written by Super User on 16 March 2015. Posted in No Category Tags.

Fifteen South African pumpkin growers competed in one of the closest contested competitions yet, for the title of Giant Pumpkin Champion in the 10th Shoprite and Checkers Giant Pumpkin Competition on 14 March.

Eskom suspends CEO and other execs

Written by Super User on 12 March 2015. Posted in No Category Tags.

Staff Writer: By: Matthew le Cordeur

Eskom chairperson Zola Tsotsi announced on Thursday that CEO Tshediso Matona has been suspended as well as other executives and a full independent inquiry is to be launched into Eskom.

Peak hour electricity price hike coming

Written by Super User on 25 February 2015. Posted in No Category Tags.

Johannesburg’s City Power is set to charge household more for electricity during peak periods in a bid to lessen the need for load shedding. This is according to a report in the Rand Daily Mail.

Companies can now exchange product information for 15 million products through GDSN

Written by Super User on 12 February 2015. Posted in No Category Tags.

GS1®, a non-profit, global organisation that develops and maintains the most widely-used supply chain standards system in the world and a leader in facilitating efficient global business, has announced today that its GS1 Global Registry® has reached 15 million product items.

Shoprite Checkers challenge on fuel savings

Written by Super User on 09 February 2015. Posted in No Category Tags.

South Africa’s largest food retailer today (Sunday, 08 February 2015) in the Sunday press challenged all food companies in the country to pass their fuel savings onto South African consumers.