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Marketing & Media
 [Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] Ford Motor Company of Southern Africa (FMCSA) has appointed Dean Stoneley as its new vice president marketing, sales and service effective from July 2010. Stoneley replaces Jacques Brent who has accepted a position as executive marketing director for Ford Asia Pacific and Africa, based in Shanghai. Read more >>2010 FIFA World Cup
 [Thabani Khumalo] The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games demonstrated, for the first time, that events are no longer just about leisure, entertainment and recreation, but are a serious business with the potential to yield huge returns to host regions, investors and stakeholders. Events have become the biggest industry within the modern global economy. Read more >> The VWV Consortium produced the closing ceremony for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, held before the final match on 11 July 2010. The performance involved approximately 730 cast members and included technology and projection that aimed to create an African feel. Read more >> JOHANNESBURG: FIFA president, Sepp Blatter, has given South Africa 9 out of 10 for organising a successful World Cup. Read more >> [John Battersby] In the space of four weeks the vuvuzela has become the defining sound, shape and buzzword of Africa's first FIFA World Cup. It is on everyone's lips - both literally and figuratively - and is likely to gets its place in the Oxford English Dictionary some time soon. Read more >>Branding
 [Issa Sikiti da Silva] It has been written that music forms part of a nation's culture. Culture, which reflects the identity of people, can be a powerful tool of social upliftment and branding. African music, which has been mostly inspired by decades of hunger, armed conflict, suffering and lack of freedom of expression, still lacks that cutting-edge due to lack of resources and self-sacrificial political leadership. Read more >>Digital
[Franklin Ozekhome] A few days ago, I was chatting with a former colleague in San Francisco, California - he works in the planning department of a prominent advertising agency in Lagos, and was vacationing in the US for the summer. Naturally, our gist had revolved around current events and trends in the Nigerian media and advertising industry, especially given the country's poor representation at the recently concluded 57th Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. Read more >> Advertisement:
Media
NEW YORK: The Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned a decision by the Security and National Intelligence Service to bar publication of the daily Al-Intibaha. Authorities suspended the newspaper last week because of the newspaper's supposed role "in strengthening separatist tendencies in the south and the north," a security official told local reporters. Read more >>CAPE TOWN: John Kufuor, former president of Ghana, recently launched an education toolkit published by the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) that will serve as a training tool for journalists and communication specialists. He also launched the 6th edition of ADEA's Africa Education Journalism Award. Read more >>Mobile
[Simon Russell] Twelve years ago the retail banking industry thought the end of 'bricks-and-mortar banking' era was close, with the introduction of mainstream internet banking. However, this did not materialise as banks in their quest to differentiate, realised the value of the branch in the selling process and its necessity for customer acquisition and authentication. Read more >> Advertisement:
 If you're in downtown Nairobi before the 4th of August, be sure to pop into the Barber Q Hair Studio and get yourself a free head massage. The studio is on the 2nd Floor of El-Roi Plaza, close to the Odeon Cinema. This is just one example of the thousands of snippets of information that are at the heart of Mocality, a free-to-list, hyper-local mobile business directory in Nairobi, Kenya. Read more >>Retail
[Dumisani Ndlela] A liquidity crunch in Zimbabwe since dollarisation has meant that cash has become the most sought after commodity in the country after food. But fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) manufacturers are ensuring a massive ramp up of food production to get people's cash trickling into their coffers even when other businesses are haemorrhaging from dwindling demand. Read more >> [Zeenat Moorad] Fresh from an impressive 52-week sales update, retailer Massmart Holdings, has announced the buy-out of Namibia-based hardware chain, Pupkewitz Megabuild, in line with its African expansion strategy. Read more >>
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