BAT launches high-tech vape . . . New product goes on sale in London . . . Industry under pressure to leave cigarettes

British American Tobacco Plc is introducing a vaping device in the UK that delivers nicotine more efficiently, the latest salvo in a battle to attract smokers to cigarette alternatives amid…

Of financial analysts, lack of depth

Taking Stock Kudzanai Sharara The impact of financial analysts on capital market efficiency has been much debated in academia and in practice. A large body of academic research finds that analysts…

Let’s buy Zim goods to save our jobs

Clive Mphambela When current American president, Donald Trump was campaigning to get into the oval office in 2016, he built his campaign around a controversial but important message; “America First!”

LG Foods plans to boost capacity

Africa Moyo Government’s drive to re-industrialise Bulawayo is gathering pace, with LG Foods Industries, planning to ramp up production to 100 percent by March next year from the current 40…

All win if Govt, business work together

The relationship between the Government and the private sector, especially the major companies, has often been bad to the detriment of Zimbabwe and its people.

Zim strives to boost intra-African trade

Sydney Kawadza in Cairo, Egypt Government thrust in rebuilding Zimbabwe’s infrastructure will boost the country’s efforts to increase trade with fellow African countries, a senior Government official has revealed.

Davipel Group to invest $2m in new plant

Michael Tome HARARE – Indigenous agro-processing company,Davipel Group, has embarked on a $2 million dollar instant yoghurt and flavouring plant investment with a target to commission by April next year.

Banking sector profitability improves

Tawanda Musarurwa HARARE – The local financial services sector boosted profitability in the nine months to September 30, 2018 posting an aggregate net profit of $283,98 million, latest Reserve Bank…

How low will Bitcoin now go? The history of price bubbles provides some clues

Lee Smales Nearly 170 years before the invention of Bitcoin, the journalist Charles Mackay noted the way whole communities could “fix their minds upon one object and go mad in…

OPEC exit frees Qatar from U.S. legal concerns

DUBAI/DOHA – Even before taking over Qatar’s energy policy in a government reshuffle last month, Qatar Petroleum (QP) CEO Saad al-Kaabi had long wanted the Gulf state to leave OPEC.

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