S & V Publications

Durban, KZN, SA - In the last issue you had an article from proudly South African focusing on job creation. Unfortunately, it will not work if government doesn’t get involved and start cleaning up the illegal imports and fakes that are sold for billions of rand that are affecting manufacturers and retailers who work by the book.&nb ...more

Cape Town, W. Cape, SA - South Africa’s chain retailers are waiting – in some cases, apparently, impatiently – for the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) to finalise its rules of origin for textiles and clothing ahead of the June deadline set by the AfCFTA Council of Ministers.     &nb ...more

Johannesburg, Gauteng, SA - In a press release today, the association Proudly South African – which advocates buying locally-made goods to encourage job creation – says South Africa currently “has one of the highest unemployment rates in the world…which is even worse when looking at youth unemployment”.It sa ...more

Springs, Gauteng, SA - Hannitan has started work on a crusting plant in Atlantis, outside Cape Town, to open probably in August, MD Rudolf Hanni said on Friday.      “It’s not replacing Hannitan,” he said. “It’s to alleviate bottlenecks in Springs, and the reason we’ve cho ...more

Johannesburg, Gauteng, SA (15 December 2022) – Consumers face an expensive braai season as they enter the December festive with meat inflation at the highest level for this period since November 2017 when it reached 14.9% y/y.      What underpins the current strength in meat prices? A combination o ...more

Pretoria, Gauteng, SA – Subject to a package of public interest conditions, the Competition Tribunal has approved the proposed merger whereby Karan Beef Feedlot and Karan Beef (Pty) Ltd intend to acquire the businesses of SK Caine Farming, Caine Farming (Pty) Ltd and Triple A Meat (Pty) Ltd.      T ...more

Johannesburg, Gauteng, SA - Business "has been showing a slight improvement", said Cedric Zoghby, with his brother Norman, a member of Atlantic Protective Clothing cc. "However, we are going into end-of-year mode, and orders are slowing down."      He said the year overall had been tough. ...more

Windhoek - "We're actually among the lucky firms," said sales representative Samantha Pieterse of PPE distributor J. Gerdes Uniwear. "A lot of companies have closed down, and business is a bit up and down, but overall we're trading quite well." Although the business doesn't carry facemasks, she said sourcing any forms ...more

Springs, Gauteng – "I can't complain," said Cattell's Industrial Footwear owner Rob Cattell. "January was on par with last year, February was slightly up. This month will be down on last year, because it was in March last year that the first lockdown started."      That good month l ...more

Durban, KZN, SA - The annual Arsutoria footwear and handbag international trends workshops in South Africa - which have run since 2017 - have, over the years, opened a window onto the fashion world for around 200 mainly design staff, most of whom would have had little opportunity to travel to fairs.The courses continued right through Covi ...more

Bata SA expansion programme: Retail partnerships, global brands ...more

IMBOX Protection is a footwear protection service that offers a closed-box, plug-and-play solution, which can protect all types of shoes within less than a minute. Since its launch in 2011, the company has expanded to 25 countries in Europe and Japan, and it's now making strides to expand in North America. The device used in the treatment ...more

The tanning industry, especially in Europe, needs to fight a political battle if it is to remain viableBy H. ProcterThe industry finds itself in a situation that it has never seen before. The science surrounding the future use of chromium salts seems to be irrelevant. At the moment, the science assessed by the European Chemical Associatio ...more

On 26 April the Sustainable Leather Foundation (SLF) announced the successful completion of a tender process with the Joint Action Support towards Industrialization and the Productive Sectors in the SADC region (SIPS) project to support sustainable and environmental compliance for the leather value chain in the Southern African Developmen ...more

Hastings, East Sussex, UK – Retired former editor of Leather International, Shelagh Davy, died on 17 April, aged 79.In an obituary in International Leather Maker, Martin Ricker, her successor at LI, now content director at ILM, wrote: “I succeeded Shelagh Davy as Editor of Leather International in 2009 after working for her on ...more

Free Market Foundation [FMF@fmfsa.org] 12 12 2022. This article was first published on Businesslive.co.za on 28 November 2022  Gary Moore is a Senior Consultant at the Free Market Foundation. He was a practising attorney in Johannesburg for 30 years. He is the author of published articles and monographs about the rule of la ...more

D. Janson*, S.T. Newman, V. Dhokia, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY, United Kingdom. © 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) Peer-review under responsibility o ...more

Tech-driven innovations are the key to providing workers with footwear that is comfortable, safe and convenient. US safety publication OH&S says new technology is the key: ...more