As a player in the agricultural sector in West Africa, the company has invested approximately 5 million dollars in agricultural projects in Togo to provide employment for the Togolese communities and to reduce their dependence on imports...
Robin Fredericks 1 Apr 2020
Earlier in March, the world celebrated International Women's Day, which focuses on forging a gender-equal world, celebrating women's successes, and raising awareness of historic and present bias...
Lucy Desai 25 Mar 2020
Technology is changing the future of business and Musa Kalenga's achievements in digital, are testament to this. Kalenga, chief future officer at Brave Group, was announced as Best Individual Contribution to Digital at the 2020 IAB Bookmarks Awards...
Issued by The Brave Group 20 Mar 2020
Doing business in Africa is still a double-edged sword; despite the steady economic growth, there is still the inability to leverage this growth into sustainable development policies and plans...
John Lombela 4 Mar 2020
Want instant branded content? Biz Content Features are the easy way to align a company or brand with market reports or industry event coverage...
Issued by Bizcommunity.com 2 Mar 2020
While the risks are high, Africa currently offers a very compelling mining proposition with a number of excellent prospects in many parts of the continent...
Nivaash Singh 10 Feb 2020
Through the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants, the unified voice of the American Institute of CPAs and The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, we are aiming to help you do just that...
Issued by CIMA 4 Feb 2020
As we embrace a global world, the way that companies reward and remunerate should be keeping pace with these changes. But are they?
Nicol Mullins 27 Jan 2020
Technology companies have the opportunity to thrive as key players in the age of the digital revolution. With the agenda of the 4IR currently at the forefront in South Africa, the empowerment of small tech businesses is critical especially as they are the backbone of the economy...
Evan-Lee Courie 20 Jan 2020
Maryanne Maina interviews Adebola Williams, CEO of StateCraft in Nigeria, a political communications company, on their mission to galvanise a generation to make informed choices...
Maryanne Maina 14 Jan 2020
'Africa is changing fast' is a euphemism. The nature of the continent's change is not just fast, it has been deep, at times totally unforeseen and always multi-dimensional...
Issued by Kantar 8 Jan 2020
Africa has carved a unique path by steam-rolling traditional structural challenges and issues...
Graham Deneys 6 Jan 2020
With the World Bank forecasting economic growth in sub Saharan Africa at 3.6% for 2019-20, some of the world's fastest-growing economies are in Africa...
Pieter Bensch 12 Dec 2019
Jessica Tennant interviews Graham Cruikshanks, director for Africa operations at TBWA\ Johannesburg on his involvement in the recent #TBWAAfricaConference, with the objective of re-emphasising TBWA\'s core disruption principles while fostering an "attitude of disruption", which he tells us more about here...
Jessica Tennant 12 Dec 2019
The music business in Africa will be discussed at the annual Africa Music Business Summit (AMBS), part of AFRIMA...
21 Nov 2019
Join Amasa (Advertising Media Association of South Africa) as we host a panel of esteem industry leaders to unpack the media landscape, challenges and opportunities that comes with venturing into African markets...
Issued by Amasa 13 Nov 2019
A recent online survey by Adams & Adams, through its Adams.Africa Advisory unit, identified seven key challenges facing business wanting to enter or grow operations in Africa...
Issued by Adams & Adams 12 Nov 2019
DISCOP Joburg puts strong emphasis on African television projects in development and the booming animation sector...
21 Oct 2019
The JBS is running the Women Entrepreneurship and Leadership for Africa programme (WELA), in partnership with the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), in November 2019...
Liezl Rees & Nikitta Hahn, Issued by Johannesburg Business School 27 Sep 2019
Vodacom Tanzania and Smart Lab have launched Vodacom Digital Accelerator...
18 Sep 2019
African business leaders are less optimistic about the strength of the global economy and their organisations' ability to grow revenues in both the short and medium term than they were a year ago...
9 Sep 2019
On 30-31 July 2019, the Produce Marketing Association (PMA) hosted over 500 delegates representing the entire fresh produce supply chain in Cape Town at the 9th Fresh Connections: Southern Africa Conference and Trade Show...
Issued by Produce Marketing Association 28 Aug 2019
Advertising Week Africa comes to the continent for the first time, hosted in Johannesburg, in October 2019...
Louise Marsland 12 Aug 2019
Escalating urbanisation, a rising middle class and a growing younger population create significant opportunities for insurers to enter this largely untapped African market...
8 Aug 2019
Daniel Thebe, founder of Isidima Brands Multimedia and Uhuru Consumer Electronics, explained his five phases of career growth so far at the 2019 CEM AfricaSummit, issuing advice and learnings for those looking to follow in his footsteps as a young entrepreneur from Khayelitsha...
Leigh Andrews 5 Aug 2019
Multinational snack foods and beverage giant PepsiCo has entered into an agreement to acquire South Africa's Pioneer Foods Group for approximately $1.7 billion...
19 Jul 2019
Scan Display hosted representatives from 12 African countries at its first African Distributor Conference in Johannesburg at the beginning of June 2019...
Issued by Scan Display 15 Jul 2019
Sponsors and exhibitors have been announced for the 2019 PMA Fresh Connections: Southern Africa Conference and Trade Show, taking place on 30-31 July at the Century City Conference Centre in Cape Town...
Issued by Produce Marketing Association 12 Jul 2019
The 3rd Women In Africa (WIA) Initiative annual World Summit agreed that African women need to change history and tell a new story of Africa...
10 Jul 2019
Hisense, supplier of affordable and high-quality electronic goods, is rapidly gaining traction across the continent's business-to-business market and is poised to become a significant player in Africa...
Issued by Ninety9cents 10 Jul 2019
Tiso Blackstar Group has announced selling its media, broadcast and content businesses in South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya to Lebashe Investment Group for R1,5bn...
28 Jun 2019
Governments around the globe are rallying behind the message that the African continent is open for business as an ideal investment opportunity...
Issued by BOOMTOWN 27 Jun 2019
26 Jun 2019
Technology has transformed the collaborative capabilities of African business...
Chris Ogden 11 Jun 2019
The University of Alberta will confer an honorary doctorate of science degree on Dr Akinwumi A. Adesina, President of the African Development Bank, at its convocation event on 4 June 2019 in Edmonton, Canada...
3 Jun 2019
Overseeing multi-ethnic innovation for Estée Lauder Companies, Susan Akkad is no stranger to the concept of 'inclusive beauty'...
Lauren Hartzenberg 31 May 2019
Addressing the well-being needs of Africans through a true collaborative effort between business, government, communities and the people who inhabit this continent will unlock future value...
31 May 2019
The African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement, entered into force yesterday, brings with it the possibility of boosting intra-Africa trade and investment. The agreement, provides a framework to ease the doing of business in Africa...
31 May 2019
Economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is estimated to rebound to 2.8%1 for 2019...
30 May 2019
While many may think that Africa's development is far off, I can categorically confirm that the time for Africa is now...
John Wentzel 21 May 2019
While a growing number of international brands are waking up to the promise of Africa as a valuable market for luxury goods, Montblanc has been growing its presence on the continent for 30 years...
Lauren Hartzenberg 17 May 2019
With community and collaboration the key drivers of the co-working revolution, disruption in the traditional office space market seems all but inevitable...
Sindy Peters 2 May 2019
Nine Africa Heads of State will attend the US-Africa Business Summit in June...
30 Apr 2019
In December last year the US National Security Advisor, John Bolton, gave a speech at the Heritage Foundation in Washington DC, in which he outlined the Trump administration's new Africa strategy...
Maria Ryan 24 Apr 2019
Agriculture Fast Track Fund to launch 17 new projects in support of agribusiness small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Ghana and seven other African countries
11 Apr 2019
To recap from last week, in emerging markets, there is a huge pent-up and untapped demand for content, for information, for services that people want to access via their phones, particularly in emerging markets. In Africa less than 40% of mobile phone users are on smartphones; so technology that works on feature phones is still an extremely viable route to market on the continent.
Issued by Ole!Connect 3 Apr 2019
Does democracy work for business in Africa? The outlook for 2019...
Issued by Johannesburg Business School 25 Mar 2019