INDUSTRY NEWS
South Africa approves fizzy drinks tax from April next year
Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba said there could be no trade-offs between health and economic growth but government pledges to assess its effect on job losses and provide support to affected industry sectors
Is this the solution to the lack of machinery holding back Africa’s small farmers?
South American and Asian farmers have five times as many tractors as Africans. To meet its potential as ‘the food basket of the world’ farmers need not only subsidised machinery but clear government support to emerging private markets.
South Africa farmers stage protests across the country over farm murders
South Africa’s farming community took to the streets in their thousands across the country in a French-style, peaceful protest, to highlight the increasing numbers of farmers being killed in rural areas where police resources have been reduced
Food prices in South Africa up 3 per cent year on year
Comparing prices between September 2016 and September 2017, food price inflation in its basket of 36 items hit just under 3 per cent – but a new report questions whether some retailers used the drought to push up prices across all foodstuffs
Pick n Pay CEO’s profit promise is on track
Nearly three years ago, Pick n Pay’s CEO Richard Brasher told shareholders that the retail group had completed its phase of “stabilising the business” that was the first step in its effort to rein in losses and return the retailer to its former glory, says www.moneyweb.co.za
Chickens culled across Western Cape as South Africa’s bird flu crisis grows
Losses are estimated at Rand 800m in six provinces of the Western Cape where Avian flu has already caused egg prices to soar and two million chickens have been culled. There could be job losses too warn industry chiefs. Other parts of south Africa have been hit as migratory birds spread the killer disease, including Johannesburg Zoo.
Father & son team explain why cucumbers provide a better South African income than tomatoes
Alan and Russell Heger speak to Farming Weekly about their Eastern Cape farming operation, which has become a major supplier of cucumbers across South Africa
Quality certificates issued to 50 Egyptian fish farms
How Egyptian government called in an international standards agency to ensure the best quality of farmed fish produced in the country
KFC tops list of South Africa’s favourite fast food restaurants
Colonel Sanders’s Kentucky fried chicken is not only the country’s favourite fast food brand, but it’s the top brand overall according to a survey of 3,500 people even beating mobile phone giant Samsung to South Africa’s heart
How South Africa’s is helping meet the European desire for blueberries
“The reason for the rapid expansion of the South African blueberry industry is that it can place early volumes on the overseas market, starting from July through to September”
Profits soar for supermarkets in South Africa, which have doubled liquor outlets in five years
The country’s big three register strong trading at their bottle stores according to a figures released in a new report
Agriculture was the main driver of South Africa’s emergence from a six month recesssion
South Africa’s agricultural sector leads the country out of recession – it expanded 33.6 per cent year on year thanks to the end of the three-year drought which caused a fall in crop production.
Video: The third and final day of one of Africa’s biggest retail and hospitality expos
Africa’s Big 7 was a key part of Retail & Hospitality Week 2017, which also saw the launch of The Hotel Show Africa 2017 alongside SAITEX, the continent’s biggest retail product sourcing expo
“Best ever” response for UK company at South Africa’s Retail and Hospitality show
“To be honest I have never been to a show where we have all these markets covered. We have also had a great quality of response. In fact, the best ever.”
SHOW NEWS: United States seek business partners in South Africa
“South Africa already has a trade agreement with the US, it’s called the Africa Growth and Opportunities Act (AGOA).”
LEIGH ANGELO
PR & COMMUNICATIONS
Tel: +27 82 954 7833
Email: Leigh@tradeprojects.co.za
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