Just six years after first setting foot in China, entrepreneur Pete Toms has turned a great idea and a set of good contacts into a $7 million turnover company. Gay Sutton goes to the horse’s mouth to find out how he did it.

The story of Frontier Mining is one of an amazing turnaround. Jane Bordenave finds out how the company went from bust to boom in just 12 months.

While it is listed on the London Stock Exchange, Frontier Mining is in fact a Kazakh mineral exploration and development operation that has been working in Kazakhstan since 1998. It is involved in gold and copper mining and was bought in 2009 by a group of investors led by entrepreneur Erlan Sagadiev.

Zambia is beginning to benefit as the world wakes up to the possibilities of green power—and power utility ZESCO is at the forefront of the changes.

The meteoric growth of Perth-based Catalpa Resources has been down to a solid strategy and a culture of excellence—as well as a dash of bravery, as managing director Bruce McFadzean tells Andrew Pelis.

The Kraljevica Shipyard is the oldest continuously-running shipyard in the world. Sales manager Dragan Badzek talks to Andrew Pelis about the past, present and future for Croatia’s shipbuilding industry.

Lafarge Cement Zambia Plc is a subsidiary of Lafarge, the world's largest building materials supplier and a major player in the Zambian construction industry. And its product is in no less demand from neighbouring countries, as John O’Hanlon learned from newly-appointed CEO Fola Esan.

Saudi Arabia has an insatiable appetite for electricity, which has turned one local business into an international giant, as Jeff Daniels learns.

Although it has to be said that not all projects have yet received their financial green light, Saudi Arabia has an impressive programme of converting its oil dollars into other forms of essential infrastructure. Billions are being spent on water desalination plants and even more on ever increasing electricity capacity.

Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) has today given formal approval to a deal with the Coca-Cola Company to sell back its North American bottling operations.

Since the formation of CCE in 1986, the North American bottling operations and the soft drinks business have been separate entities.

International power and automation technology group ABB intends to expand its mining interests in South Africa with the acquisition of the mine hoist related business of local manufacturer Coilmech, for an undisclosed sum.

ABB plans to incorporate the acquisition into subsidiary ABB South Africa’s process automation portfolio for customers in the mining sector.