Blue Label increases revenue, earnings
Blue Label Telecoms has increased its headline earnings per share by 15% to 42.73 cents for the six months ended 30 November 2014. The growth was achieved in spite of the group’s share of losses in Blue Label Mexico increasing by R14,5-million, which negatively...Standard Bank ready for smartcard ID rollout
Standard Bank has confirmed that it will roll out new smartcard IDs at branches countrywide, as announced by the Minister of Home Affairs, Malusi Gigaba, earlier this week. Sibongiseni Ngundze, head of retail banking at Standard Bank, says: “We always aim to put our customer at the heart of our operation. This form of public and private collaboration marks a move to cement our strategy of becoming a truly innovative customer-centric institution.”
Guma plans to buy, delist Gijima
Yebo Guma Investments has made an offer to acquire all of Gijima’s shares, following which it plans to delist the company from the JSE Securities Exchange. Guma has made an offer to acquire all of the remaining shares in the issued ordinary share capital of Gijima, being 6 930 389 Gijima shares.
SAP’s HANA brings live World Cup info home
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has partnered with SAP as its exclusive analytics and cloud partner for the Cricket World Cup tournament, using the in-memory HANA platform to power live match experiences across the ICC’s network of Web sites.