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Mother-daughter label Me and B tells Business Week how a retail giant approached them and proposed a matching mom-and-daughter range.
“And they've just struck retail gold, a supply deal with Ackermans. You might know them as Ackermans. Bettina, how does it all start?”
Author Ben Muir tells how asking 'why' five times found the root cause of erosion at Washington's Lincoln and Jefferson memorials.
“And the culprit that they thought was the problem was bird droppings on them. There was a lot of bird poop on them, and they were having to scrub the bird poop off, and the chemicals were causing the monuments to erode.”
Business Week hosts discuss Virgin Active's membership falling 4% to 605,000 and its R2.5bn purchase of 13 German high-end clubs.
“It looks like it's part of a big push that's opened a couple of new high-end stores. They're planning more. So, yeah, we'll have to see.”
Naughty Water co-founder Michael Tones explains how they won shelf space by running one store, then 50, as if it were everything.
“And we got into one store and we ran one store like it was our be all and end all.”
BER chief economist Lisette Eisel de Schiepe says municipal dysfunction raises business costs and deters investment, but stable coalitions could restore confidence.
“And Lisette, talk to me about the fact that municipalities are seen as a political story, but my goodness me, the economic cost of dysfunction, the cost to businesses, the cost to local economies around them has been…”
Bruce Whitfield reveals the quiz answer: Kylicha Cookies was bought in 2013 for one rand with R2m debt, and still supplies British Airways.
“Asked you earlier, there was a biscuit company in 2013 with a BA contract that was sold. What was the purchase price for the biscuit company? Well, it was only one rand, actually. Yes, one rand.”
News24's business editor says the latest government gas-to-power tender found no bidders able to guarantee gas supply or secure financing.
“Yeah, I mean, it's been 11 years since the government has.”
News24's business editor says SAA failed to pay senior staff on time for a second month, with R900m stuck in Zimbabwe and fuel costs rising.
“Yes, unfortunately, for the second month in a row, SAA hasn't been able to pay on time senior staff, including pilots, which makes me a bit nervous. The airline”
Boating conference founder Vida Pretorius says South Africans make up a third to 40% of superyacht crew worldwide, a growing industry segment.
“And also, interesting enough, over a third of South African super yacht crew are South African. So, although we are not manufacturers of super yachts, that's definitely a growing industry segment for us.”
A markets analyst says second-hand prices for Chinese-brand cars have weakened, pressuring CMH's rental business and WeBuyCars.
“Let's have a quick look at markets now with Jean-Pierre Fastad at Protek Capital Management. Lots of results out this week. Afrimat warned us their results were going to be awful.”
A News24 business editor explains the mid-term budget's debt ratio dipped from 78.4% to 78.2%, helped by mining taxes and repurposed agency cash.
“So it was around 28, 29% in 2009 before Zuma took over. Then it absolutely blew up with all the rampant government spending, state capture costs, COVID, et cetera. We peaked at 78.4% of GDP last year.”
The story so far
4 moments on 3 stations
Wed 21 Oct, 18:03BizNews Radio
Economist: deficit shrinks because SARS takes more, not spending lessWed 21 Oct, 18:21SAfm
Godongwana: principle-based fiscal anchor, because fixed targets are collapsing globallyThu 22 Oct, 05:12BizNews Radio
Economist: SA's fiscal turnaround is real but built on higher taxesThu 22 Oct, 14:58Bruce Whitfield's Business WeekThis one
SA debt-to-GDP turns the corner at 78.2%, helped by mining tax
Franz Stielbeck explains how his Trackview railway sensor is built to be worthless to vandals, using supercapacitors and no copper.
“You've created a railway monitoring system that you've made, I don't know about theft, proof, but not worth stealing, France. Tell me about it. Yes, we created track view.”
Bruce Whitfield says real GDP per capita fell 5% since 2008 while the world rose almost 40%, blaming the financial crisis, load shedding and state capture.
“So, on average, every single South African over the past nearly 20 years is 5% poorer than they were in 2008. And I describe the causes as the horseman of the South African economic apocalypse.”
Moz Crib co-founder Michelle Mukoni tells how she and her sister went to New York Now with no orders, slept in a basement, yet won best product.
“A growing number of South African founders are getting their products onto the shelves of U.S. retail chains. There's one thing they share in common.”
Patrice Motsepe's ARM and the Sacco family's Assore, 50-50 owners of Ismang, are in court over who makes decisions at the Northern Cape manganese venture.
“And then finally, we all do like a big billionaire bus up, and there's a big billionaire bust up happening in all things manganese mining.”
Mother-daughter label Me and B tells Business Week how a retail giant approached them and proposed a matching mom-and-daughter range.
“And they've just struck retail gold, a supply deal with Ackermans. You might know them as Ackermans. Bettina, how does it all start?”
Author Ben Muir tells how asking 'why' five times found the root cause of erosion at Washington's Lincoln and Jefferson memorials.
“And the culprit that they thought was the problem was bird droppings on them. There was a lot of bird poop on them, and they were having to scrub the bird poop off, and the chemicals were causing the monuments to erode.”
Business Week hosts discuss Virgin Active's membership falling 4% to 605,000 and its R2.5bn purchase of 13 German high-end clubs.
“It looks like it's part of a big push that's opened a couple of new high-end stores. They're planning more. So, yeah, we'll have to see.”
Naughty Water co-founder Michael Tones explains how they won shelf space by running one store, then 50, as if it were everything.
“And we got into one store and we ran one store like it was our be all and end all.”
BER chief economist Lisette Eisel de Schiepe says municipal dysfunction raises business costs and deters investment, but stable coalitions could restore confidence.
“And Lisette, talk to me about the fact that municipalities are seen as a political story, but my goodness me, the economic cost of dysfunction, the cost to businesses, the cost to local economies around them has been…”
Bruce Whitfield reveals the quiz answer: Kylicha Cookies was bought in 2013 for one rand with R2m debt, and still supplies British Airways.
“Asked you earlier, there was a biscuit company in 2013 with a BA contract that was sold. What was the purchase price for the biscuit company? Well, it was only one rand, actually. Yes, one rand.”
News24's business editor says the latest government gas-to-power tender found no bidders able to guarantee gas supply or secure financing.
“Yeah, I mean, it's been 11 years since the government has.”
News24's business editor says SAA failed to pay senior staff on time for a second month, with R900m stuck in Zimbabwe and fuel costs rising.
“Yes, unfortunately, for the second month in a row, SAA hasn't been able to pay on time senior staff, including pilots, which makes me a bit nervous. The airline”
Boating conference founder Vida Pretorius says South Africans make up a third to 40% of superyacht crew worldwide, a growing industry segment.
“And also, interesting enough, over a third of South African super yacht crew are South African. So, although we are not manufacturers of super yachts, that's definitely a growing industry segment for us.”
A markets analyst says second-hand prices for Chinese-brand cars have weakened, pressuring CMH's rental business and WeBuyCars.
“Let's have a quick look at markets now with Jean-Pierre Fastad at Protek Capital Management. Lots of results out this week. Afrimat warned us their results were going to be awful.”
A News24 business editor explains the mid-term budget's debt ratio dipped from 78.4% to 78.2%, helped by mining taxes and repurposed agency cash.
“So it was around 28, 29% in 2009 before Zuma took over. Then it absolutely blew up with all the rampant government spending, state capture costs, COVID, et cetera. We peaked at 78.4% of GDP last year.”
The story so far
4 moments on 3 stations
Wed 21 Oct, 18:03BizNews Radio
Economist: deficit shrinks because SARS takes more, not spending lessWed 21 Oct, 18:21SAfm
Godongwana: principle-based fiscal anchor, because fixed targets are collapsing globallyThu 22 Oct, 05:12BizNews Radio
Economist: SA's fiscal turnaround is real but built on higher taxesThu 22 Oct, 14:58Bruce Whitfield's Business WeekThis one
SA debt-to-GDP turns the corner at 78.2%, helped by mining tax
Franz Stielbeck explains how his Trackview railway sensor is built to be worthless to vandals, using supercapacitors and no copper.
“You've created a railway monitoring system that you've made, I don't know about theft, proof, but not worth stealing, France. Tell me about it. Yes, we created track view.”
Bruce Whitfield says real GDP per capita fell 5% since 2008 while the world rose almost 40%, blaming the financial crisis, load shedding and state capture.
“So, on average, every single South African over the past nearly 20 years is 5% poorer than they were in 2008. And I describe the causes as the horseman of the South African economic apocalypse.”
Moz Crib co-founder Michelle Mukoni tells how she and her sister went to New York Now with no orders, slept in a basement, yet won best product.
“A growing number of South African founders are getting their products onto the shelves of U.S. retail chains. There's one thing they share in common.”
Patrice Motsepe's ARM and the Sacco family's Assore, 50-50 owners of Ismang, are in court over who makes decisions at the Northern Cape manganese venture.
“And then finally, we all do like a big billionaire bus up, and there's a big billionaire bust up happening in all things manganese mining.”
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