SA employers haven’t changed hiring plans

South African employers report fair hiring prospects for the July-September time frame, with 12% expecting to increase staffing levels, 6% forecasting a decrease and 79% anticipating no change. According to the Manpower Employment Outlook Survey (MEOS) for Q3 2016,...

GE opens R500m innovation centre

GE has opened its R500-million Africa Innovation Centre in Johannesburg.  The 2 700m2 facility is the first for GE in Africa and the 10th GE Innovation Centre globally. It is the first GREEN- and LEED-certified GE building in sub-Saharan Africa and will be GE’s...

Lack of confidence in security measures

Despite an increasing number of data breaches and more than 3,9-billion data records worldwide being lost or stolen since 2013, organisations continue to believe perimeter security technologies are effective against data breaches. This is one of the many findings of...

Omni-channel key to consumer goods firms

Consumer goods retailers and manufacturers that want to keep in front of change and secure competitive advantage are transforming themselves into fully integrated omni businesses – able to respond to the needs of customers across all channels and at any point...

Kolok is new SanDisk distributor

SanDisk (a Western Digital brand) has appointed Kolok as its third official distributor, covering South Africa and neighbouring countries Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique, Lesotho and Zimbabwe. With logistics and distribution operations in South Africa, Kolok also has...

Otel signs up Zycoo, boosts services

Otel Telecoms’ has been named as a Zycoo-approved distributor, which give it realtime access to direct technical support from one of the world’s leading developers and manufacturers of IP (Internet Protocol) unified communications solutions. The...