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With less than a month to go until the 2008 Loerie Award festival weekend, we decided that it's time to have a little fun with Loerie committee members. Bizcommunity.com recently asked them a few questions - some of them professional, some of them personal - to help you understand what makes them tick. First up was Festus Masekwameng, creative director, McCann-Erickson SA and Loerie Awards committee chairman. 4 Jul 2008 09:16
To commemorate BMW's string of achievements, its local creative agency Ireland/Davenport recently placed a print ad in national news and motoring papers which cheekily states that the commercial is in fact the exact same one - bar for one small change - that was flighted last year and the year before, and the year before... 4 Jul 2008 08:35
KwaZulu-Natal printing company Uniprint recently invested R100 million and considerable logistical effort to install a state-of-the-art printing press. The monstrous new heat-set printer can produce 37 000 pages per minute, is 78m long, three storeys high and had to be shipped in numerous pieces before being assembled on site. 4 Jul 2008 08:24
Earlier this year, UK-based brand GolfPunk was launched in South Africa by GreensideGolf Publishing to complement existing consumer and custom titles in its golf-specialist stable. “Although we are too young to have an ABC yet,” says circulation manager Neil Jennings, “early indications are promising.” 4 Jul 2008 08:12
Twenty-four retailers operating at Gateway Theatre of Shopping in Umhlanga have been nominated for national awards in the new annual Retail Revolution competition, it was announced at the official ceremony held at the shopping centre yesterday, 2 July 2008. The competition covers some 2,000 shops in major retail complexes managed by Old Mutual Investment Group Property Investments. 3 Jul 2008 12:27
CNN International and South African Tourism (SA Tourism) have partnered together on its first-ever user generated content-driven multimedia brand campaign, geared towards raising the profile of South Africa to CNN's elite audience of business and leisure travelers. The ‘My South Africa' brand campaign encourages CNN viewers worldwide to harness their creativity and upload compelling photographs, moving images and stories that encapsulate their experiences of South Africa, via the ‘My South Africa' website, for the chance to win a trip to South Africa. [video] 3 Jul 2008 11:51
CubicICE, a leading digital strategies company, is calling for papers for its Successful Online Strategies (SOS) Conference. The conference, the first of its kind in South Africa, has been organised in association with American-based company Target Marketing, and will be held on 5 September this year, in Johannesburg. 4 Jul 2008 14:54
At a time when many businesses are feeling the pinch, it is always good news when one hears of a successful South African company flourishing. Once such story is that of Samplex! Established over 10 years ago, the company has established an impressive client base, and has now expanded its footprint to provide an even more dynamic service on a national level. 4 Jul 2008 14:32
To help senior business leaders get to grips with local and global business challenges and find innovative ways of creating value during hard times, the UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB) is offering its Executive Leadership Programme (ELP) this August. 4 Jul 2008 14:24
V-Lab has recently wrapped a series of commercials for Wesbank, Gold Reef City and News Café. 4 Jul 2008 14:02
