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PRETORIA PORTLAND CEMENT is pursuing additional opportunities in Africa and expects to make further announcements this year. In a trading update for the first quarter, PPC chairman Mr Bheki Sibiya saidHold on to your customers
Shelter Chieza Change Management
LET’S face it, finding and retaining customers these days is no easy task. The average business is loses around 20 percent of its customers annually simply by failing to attend to customerDiversify export basket: Call
Martin Kadzere Senior Business ReporterZIMBABWE’S minerals have remained the biggest contributor to the country’s foreign currency earnings since dollarisation in 2009, but economists have expressed concern over the country’s
Econet takes EcoCash to ZSE
Business ReporterECONET Wireless Zimbabwe is working on setting up a payment system for small value shares bought on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange using its mobile phone- based money transfer facility, EcoCash.
Community trusts in bid to achieve transparency
Business ReporterVARIOUS Community Share Ownership Trusts will soon float tenders for services of fund managers, auditors and legal representatives to ensure professional administration of the trusts overseeing the
Mimosa platinum output declines
Martin Kadzere Senior Business ReporterAQUARIUS PLATINUM said production at its local operation Mimosa Mining Company for the quarter ended December 2012 declined by 5 percent to 600 066 tonnes. Revenue for the same period rose
Motsepe shares fortune with charity
JOHANNESBURG. – Mining billionaire Patrice Motsepe yesterday announced that he would give half his family’s fortune to charity, becoming the first African to match a pledge made by Bill Gates and Warren
Firm sells mines to Hong Kong Fund
Martin Kadzere Senior Business ReporterGAT Investments, a local private mining firm, has sold its gold and pyrite mines to a Hong Kong fund in a deal worth US$12 million, Herald Business can reveal. GAT is owned by a local consortium led by its
Rand fall no joy for Zim
Business Reporter
THE fall in the price of the rand against the greenback is unlikely to be of benefit to local companies. This is despite the fact that Zimbabwe buys more than 60 percent of its imports from South Africa,
Queens Park Rangers hold City
LONDON – Title-chasing Manchester City, who sold striker Mario Balotelli, could not crack resilient Queens Park Rangers and in-form goalkeeper Julio Cesar in a 0-0 draw at the English Premier League