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Sustainability: fair trade

Nick Jones, managing director of Nexus Collections, discusses the importance of fair trade and suggests what you should look for in a fair trade supplier.

Operations: outsourcing

As a co-author of a new book entitled Vested Outsourcing, Kate Vitasek outlines the 10 key ailments that commonly afflict outsourced partnerships and presents five gold

Port of Durban

The Durban Harbour Entrance Widening & Deepening (DHEW) project is taking the port into the era of the big ships.

TFS

Sandalwood is possibly the most valuable wood on the planet; and in Australia the first commercial and sustainable harvesting programme ever devised is just a couple of years aw

Alpine Lounge

South Africa’s premium furniture manufacturer is meeting the challenges of a changing market by adopting best manufacturing practices more often associated with automobiles than

American Coal Council

This is a difficult time for the coal industry in the United States. CEO Janet Gellici talks about finding a way to overcome the challenges.

Minopex

Unigold

Toronto-based exploration company Unigold is poised to begin an exciting phase of exploration and development in the Dominican Republic.

Grecian Magnesite

CKI to buy UK power grids

EDFof France is to sell its UK electricity networks business to Cheung Kong Infrastructure (CKI) of Hong Kong for £5.8 billion.

Shifting the ÔÇÿbunkerÔÇÖ mindset

Are the leaders who managed businesses through the early stages of the economic downturn still the right people to lead us into the next stage of recovery?

South African Shippers Council

Fanie Pretorius, chair person of the South African Shippers Council, tells Jane Bordenave how the organisation works to benefit its members and how broad collaboration can bring

Siemens signs multi-billion euro deals with Russia

Germany’s Siemens AG has signed multi-billion euro deals to supply railway technologies and wind power to Russia.