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- businessweekly
- August 30, 2019
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Price adjustment, volume growth buoy Dairibord
Dairibord Holdings Limited’s revenue for the half year to June 30, 2019 jumped 139 percent to $118,1 million on the back of volume growth as well as gradual price adjustments in line with market conditions and cost push pressures.
- businessweekly
- August 30, 2019
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FBC moves towards more profit-oriented venture
FBC Holdings (FBCH) says it will be retreating from bonds and debentures business to higher yielding lending as the company moves towards more profit-oriented ventures.
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- August 30, 2019
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Arda Jotsholo back on its feet
GOVERNMENT’S partnership with the private sector has started paying dividend at Arda Jotsholo in Matabeleland North province where large scale production is now in full swing.
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- August 30, 2019
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Gold gets driven toward $1 600
Gold took a stride toward $1 600 an ounce as the US-China trade war worsened, hurting the outlook for global growth and boosting demand for the traditional haven as risk assets suffered.
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- August 30, 2019
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PPC sales in 25-30pc decline
Leading cement producing company, Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC Zimbabwe), recorded a 26 to 30 percent decline in sales for the four months’ period ending 30 July 2019, according to an operational update released on Thursday by parent company and JSE-listed entity PPC Limited.
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- August 30, 2019
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KFC to start testing Beyond Meat fried chicken
New York (CNN Business) Kentucky fried plant-based chicken is coming to a KFC in Atlanta this week.
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- August 30, 2019
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What holds back half of world’s population from using internet?
Over half of the world’s population — an estimated 4,3 billion people — now use the Internet, and 90 percent of all people are covered by at least basic data services. Some countries have very high levels of internet usage; the members of the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a group of advanced economies, have 84 percent individuals using the internet.
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- August 30, 2019
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This austerity thing
Recently, President Mahmoud Abbas of Palestine fired 10 of his advisers. He reckoned having so many people around him was a waste of public funds.
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- August 30, 2019
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Who pays for subsidies?
Among the many economic reforms being tackled by the new dispensation is the emotive issue of subsidies, direct and indirect, and either abolishing these or, where Government policy requires a move that an economist might label as a market distortion, ensuring that the subsidy is identified, is transparent, is properly funded and preferably targeted.
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- August 30, 2019
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When your client negotiates on pricing and discount
The recently ended Agricultural Show of 2019 was characterised by a number of exhibitors who had some form of a product or service to offer tied with sweet discounts for the visitors.