Namibia Breweries Ltd (NBL) offers more than a winning portfolio of some of the region’s best-selling beers. Contracts manager Gideon Shilongo explains it is also setting the standard with a range of ground-breaking environmental initiatives.

Since opening its first warehouse in 2005, Doha-based Gulf Warehousing Company has grown at an impressive rate. Chief executive officer Ranjeev Menon talks to Gay Sutton about building the new Logistics Village and plans to replicate this highly successful business model internationally.

There’s a mining boom in Namibia that is placing extra demands on electricity supply—necessitating a complete restructuring of the industry, as Alan Swaby learns.

Let a private company sell below cost for any length of time and it will inevitably end up staring down the barrel of disaster. But when the seller is a public body, it’s much easier to fudge the true situation and avoid a similar fate.

As Alan Swaby learns, there’s precious little allowance for Africa’s regional differences or difficulties when it comes to the performance expectations of multi-national customers.

Logistics has become a critical component for economic success in today’s global scenario and Container Corporation of India is showing the way—by educating the farmer and helping everyone to reap rich rewards.

Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi is setting a new standard for healthcare design and delivery, as Suhail Mahmood Al Ansari, executive director of Mubadala Healthcare, and Dr Marc Harrison, chief executive officer of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, explain to Richard Halfhide.

Carl Zeiss Vision South Africa has been making use of strategic partnerships in order to improve visibility across the supply chain and underline its commitment to excellent customer service.

acQuire Technology Solutions has ambitious plans for diversification and growth. CEO Warren Cook talks to Gay Sutton about product innovation and building a management structure that can be replicated across new marketplaces.

John Pymer, managing director of Certification International, explains the business benefits of achieving an internationally recognised environmental quality standard.

With supply chain processes and product flows optimised ‘to the max’ during the recession, an increasing number of organisations are switching on to substantial further productivity improvements which can be achieved through the introduction of supply chain workforce management systems, as Chris Buckley, services director of RedPrairie, explains.