Filed under: Branding
You may think that you have an absolute, 100% ownership for your brand, yet if your name identity is shared with hundreds of others, then you clearly lack 100% ownership. What’s the point of brand-building if you are simply brand-sharing?
Filed under: Local Company News
South African furniture retailer Lewis’s full-year normalised headline earnings per share rose 23% to 654,4 cents, the company said on Monday. The retailer said merchandise sales for the year to end-March were up 15,4% at R1,8-billion, with normalised operating profit 18% higher at R859,9-million.
Filed under: Local Company News
South African fashion retailer Stuttafords said on Tuesday a court had ordered it to stop selling Gap merchandise due to a dispute with a local firm that claims to be the owner of the brand. Stuttaford chief executive Bruce Rubenstein said the retailer would abide by the court decision and wait for a response from Gap.
Filed under: Local Company News
South African fashion and homewares retailer Mr Price reported a 27% earnings rise on Thursday, boosted by its store expansion programme. Diluted headline earnings rose to 183,6 cents per share in the year ended March 31, while revenue from continuing operations increased 24%.
Filed under: Design
By Tom Robbins
Cape Town – Truly South African design work was coming of age but industry players needed to co-ordinate better in order to capitalise on the wealth and job creation potential of the sector, said Design Indaba founder Ravi Naidoo.
Filed under: Design
An economic experience Advertising supermo Trevor Beattie has earned millions by devising original and controversial publicity campaigns.
Filed under: Local Company News
Market volatility took its toll on Edgars Consolidated Stores (Edcon) on Friday as it was forced to rework a e1.81 billion (R17.9 billion) high-yield bond sale in the face of investor fears over interest rates and inflation.
Filed under: Local Company News
Truworths used surplus cash to buy back R367 million worth of shares, it said last week.
Filed under: Local Company News
The written offer to buy building materials retailer Iliad Africa was most likely to have come from a private equity player, according to Old Mutual Investment Group SA (Omigsa) portfolio manager Brian Pyle.
