Search Results for: South Africa

BY MARK ROWE
VIRGIN Management (Asia) Ltd, the Asian arm of Richard Branson’s empire, is to expand its Virgin Vie cosmetics in Singapore, going head to head in south-east Asia with Estee Lauder, L’Oreal, and Shiseido, Japan’s largest cosmetics company. Branson also plans to spend a further US$2billion expanding his cosmetic and beverage businesses across the Asia-Pacific region.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GOOD practice of an innovative honey company has been highlighted through its winning a United Nations Development Programme prize for promoting small-scale honey production in Kenya. Honey Care Africa, supported by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation, has won the US$30,000 Equator Prize.…

BY MARK ROWE
MONEY launderers looking to process their criminal gains look favourably upon south-east Asia. Authorities in the region are under-funded and overworked, while cash-transactions are a cultural norm, making it easy to ensure that money you would prefer not to be traced can simply disappear, with little likelihood that anyone will have the time to investigate the transaction.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
WE know that irresponsible sea-sand dredging can led to coastal erosion, threatening beaches and ecological balance and even the livelihoods of whole sea-side or fishing communities. Yet there is today an unprecedented demand for sand as a building material.…

BY RICHARD HURST
SOUTH African company Phamtin, the tin arm of the Phamine company has launched preparatory operations of a new tin smelter and tin concentrator plant in the country’s northern Limpopo Province.

Lucas Mkhwanazi chief executive of Phamine said that the new division and the new facilities are part of the revival of the South African tin mining industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved a paper industry deal which will see Norway’s Norske Skog and Canada’s Abitibi acquire complete control of their subsidiary Pan Asia Paper Company, buying out its third shareholder, South Korea’s Hansol Paper Co Ltd.…

BY RICHARD HURST
SOUTH African company Phamtin, the tin arm of the Phamine company has launched preparatory operations of a new tin smelter and tin concentrator plant in the country’s northern Limpopo Province.

Lucas Mkhwanazi chief executive of Phamine said that the new division and the new facilities are part of the revival of the South African tin mining industry.…

BY RICHARD HUSRT, in Johannesburg
SOUTH African independent wine and spirits importer, exporter and distributor DGB is entering the second phase of a three-phase expansion of its Wellington base, near Cape Town, in this instance involving a new bottling facility and extra warehousing.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE COCA-COLA Company has launched a chocolate-flavored dairy drink Nestlé Choglit; it’s Coke’s first entry into the milk-based beverage segment in the United States and is being rolled out initially in the north-east and south-east of the country.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
THREE software programmes developed by Australia’s Cooperative Research Centre for Mining Technology and Equipment are enabling mines to make better use of powerful geo-sensing techniques. By providing a cheap and easy way to process and interpret data, the programmes are removing impediments to the use of tools that provide much greater geological certainty.…