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 | Facebook has launched its Nigerian SME Council, the first to launch on the continent, as part of Facebook's commitment to help support small and medium sized businesses throughout Africa... read |
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 | The Storylab Academy is providing an opportunity for journalists to improve their digital storytelling skills with a combination of free online webinars and face-to-face training... read |
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 | Greg Viljoen Many millions of brands, from consumer goods to charities, compete across a bewildering array of media platforms for attention. All of them hope for more... read |
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 | Chadian authorities should immediately release from detention and drop all charges against Juda Allahondoum, publisher of the weekly Le Visionnaire newspaper, the Committee to Protect Journalists said... read |
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 | The 21st annual Zanzibar International Film Festival announces the opening of submissions for competition and screening for 2018... read |
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 | Angolan food delivery startup Tupuca is planning on adding new features and expanding to neighbouring countries having seen solid uptake since its launch... read |
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 | APO Group and Africa Tech Now join forces in Las Vegas to strengthen Africa's visibility as the next digital and innovation hub... read |
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 | Jainita Khatri Physical merged with digital, that's where the term phygital comes from. It's a marketing and retail description, but you'll find a world of phygital art out there too... read |
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 | Chris Jordan Where traditional models in radio have enjoyed funding from around 70% of what the station makes through ad sales revenue, online stations need to do the same, but in a completely different way... read |
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 | Jeanette Grove Some agencies are finally beginning to understand the importance of being "fully integrated." So why this need for integration?... read |
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 | Kenyan gender advocate Vivian Onano is one of the key speakers at the Liberty VUKA Knowledge Summit. In this Q&A, we find out what her entrepreneurship lessons are for women and young people in the workplace... read |
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 | Radio Pulpit 657AM has won the 2017 DRM Enterprise Award (Africa), for its contribution in actively promoting the DRM standard across Southern Africa... read |
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 | Africa Innovation Summit II: Addressing Africa's challenges though innovation... read |
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 | Babalwa Nyembezi Instagram Stories now lets you host a poll, but maybe you're struggling to share your brand purpose using Stories (and to keep up with the millennials). Here are a few ideas on how you can start thinking about telling better stories... read |
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 | At the annual Mobile Marketing Awards for Europe, the Middle East and Africa Smarties Awards gala ceremony, held on Wednesday, 25 October 2017 at Swissôtel The Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey, the association once again celebrated excellence, innovation and effectiveness in mobile marketing... read |
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 | Jumia Food Kenya has launched an initiative aimed at recruiting more female riders; who act as the link between their partner restaurants and customers... read |
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 | Africa's rapid urbanisation can be a driver of industrialisation and there is an urgent need to connect policies and strategies for urban and industrial development... read |
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 | Builders Warehouse has extended its roots in Zambia, opening a second store in the country last week... read |
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 | Lauren Crooks Whether your goal is lead generation, sales conversion or brand-building, what you say and how you say it is the most powerful way to engage with your audience... read |
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 | The Third Industrial Development Decade for Africa: from political commitment to actions on the ground... read |
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 | The Chartered Institute of Customer Management (CICM) has launched Zimbabwe's first of its kind Customer Satisfaction Index... read |
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 | Jaco Maritz The consumer-facing sector has been pivotal to Africa's growth story, with McKinsey & Company estimating it accounted for almost 50% of GDP expansion between 2010 and 2014. Here are some of the latest FMCG trends... read |
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 | Dave Nemeth The South African retail landscape has been under a lot of pressure for some time now and whilst 80% are blaming the economy for this downturn in trading, there are others that continue to grow year on year... read | |  | Bradley Elliott As consumers spend increasing amounts of time online, retailers are scrambling to beef up their e-commerce platforms. Here are some key considerations to bear in mind when launching a digital shopping portal... read | |  | Gill Randall Ten seconds. That's all the attention a consumer will give your brand in a supermarket environment before considering a purchase... read | |  | Charlene Olivier There are a few trends in 2018 that may make it easier for consumers to part with their rands and cents... read | |  | Stefan Abro Effective engagement with today's shopper is a constant challenge considering that they have numerous avenues to research products and brands before making a decision... read | |  | During 2016, the Gateway Theatre of Shopping in Durban made it their personal mission to grow the bottom line of at least 40 independent retailers over the course of 12 months... read | |
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 | Ilse van den Berg A startup born in a dorm room in 2007 is now a successful business with 36 stores around the country. To date, weFix has expertly repaired smartphones as well as tablets, laptops, and DJI drones for over 700,000 customers... read | |  | Leigh Andrews Janine Basel, CEO of Akro Capital, shares how the phenomenon of very few female entrepreneurs approaching them for funding led to the formation of their Girl Boss Hustle events... read | |  | Issued by ICO Conferences & Events The prestigious conference of the Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) held in Cape Town on 5 and 6 October has resulted in numerous strategies which could have a dramatic impact on the influence of African businesswomen and entrepreneurs in the continent's socio-economic environment... read | |
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 | Paul Kent The services offered by traditional banks are too restrictive for what smaller retailers require and many of them are looking for alternative solutions... read |
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 | Jill Young Schutte No one can accurately predict the future, but present-day research and information can direct us on how to make informed decisions for days ahead... read |
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 | Issued by Reed Exhibitions In an exciting move to forward the MICE industry in Africa, Reed Exhibitions has announced the launch of SMARTmeetings powered by ibtm events, a dynamic two-day event in Kigali, Rwanda... read |
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 | Issued by Bizcommunity.com Bizcommunity is proud to announce that from a huge response of global submissions to the UK-based Women in Marketing Awards, Biz Editor-in-Chief Marketing & Media, Leigh Andrews has been shortlisted as a finalist... read |
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 | US ridesharing giant Lyft has received a $1bn investment led by the venture arm of Google parent Alphabet, to help ramp up its challenge to market leader Uber... read |
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, US: Amazon stretched its delivery arm inside homes on Wednesday with a smart lock and camera combination that also signalled a move into home security... read |
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 | The bird flu outbreak in South Africa has wiped out more than 15% of layer hens and with the resultant shortage of table eggs, comes the prospect of hefty price increases... read |
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 | Rob Bellamy The prospect of engineering the world's climate system to tackle global warming is becoming more and more likely... read |
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 | Air Mauritius has received its first Airbus A350 aircraft powered by the large aero-engine, the Rolls-Royce Trent XWB. It is the second African airline to take the A350, after Ethiopian Airways... read |
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 | Confortis International Group launched the display housing developments of the second Wellcity.O2 hub in the new town with the aim to help middle-class Africans buy... read |
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 | Award-winning boutique hotel, Victoria Falls Safari Club, is expected to begin redevelopment on 1 November 2017.... read |
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 | Robben Island has gone green with a solar energy microgrid, which will produce almost 1m kWh of electricity annually... read |
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 | "With an enormous potential of fertile soils and favourable climate, East Africa has a comparative advantage to produce several agricultural products, process and export as a food basket..." read |
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 | Uber has announced the appointment of Lola Kassim as its new general manager for West Africa... read |
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 | Fewer than 40 polio cases were reported worldwide in 2016, thanks to the 10-billion doses of oral vaccine that have been administered since 2000.... read |
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 | Kamoso, a Botswana-based retailer and consumer goods company, was acquired by a consortium that includes Investec Asset Management Private Equity, RMB Ventures... read |
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 | Pollution claimed the lives of nine million people in 2015, one in every six deaths that year, according to a report published on Friday, 20 October... read |
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 | Africa must double its spending on infrastructure over the coming years, the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (ICA) said on Thursday, 19 October... read |
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 | Humanity needs to 'unlearn' the traditional ways of doing things in order to remain relevant. This is according to Willem Van Der Post, who is a qualified chartered accountant, exponential technology expert... read |
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 | Neels Blom Airline passenger numbers in Africa are expected to more than double in less than 20 years based on a growth rate of about 5.6%. The rate would raise the African number to about 200 million... read |
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 | SADC has agreed to fully support and actively assist RETOSA to establish partnerships and secure resources from international cooperating partners towards a tourism destination marketing strategy... read |
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 | Wambi Michael Index insurance is being promoted as a solution to protect climate affected smallholder farmers in Africa. This type of microinsurance is slowly gaining ground as a way of compensating farmers for... read |
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 | IATA expects 7.8 billion passengers to travel in 2036, a near doubling of the four billion air travellers expected to fly this year, according to the latest 20-Year Air Passenger Forecast... read |
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 | Sheryl L Hendriks, Katrin Glatzel, Ousmane Badiane A number of African countries are taking bold action to tackle malnutrition...
Senegal, Ghana, Rwanda, Angola, Cameroon, Ethiopia and Togo read |
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 | The use of smart agriculture will promote the appropriate use of agricultural chemicals and drive additional chemical sales as Africa boosts it's below average use these inputs... read |
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 | A new report illustrates how drones are disrupting the power and utilities industries build, operate and maintain their networks... read |
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