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| City Lodge sees lower earnings |
| During the year, City Lodge Hotels said it successfully opened a number of hotels as part of its biggest ever development programme, on time and within budget. |
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| Massive African Footprint Delivers Convention Clout |
| After South Africa's blaze of international publicity during the Soccer World Cup, the largest hotel group in Africa is taking the continent to the premier international corporate travel trade show in the USA. |
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| Famous Brands satisfies burning desire with peri peri flame grilled chicken deal |
| After an exhaustive decade-long search, Famous Brands has finally secured its entry into the mainstream chicken category, with the acquisition of a peri peri flame grilled chicken offering, ‘Giramundo’, Portuguese for ‘around the world’. |
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| Trading conditions remain tough, says Rainbow |
| THE spending power of SA’s consumers was no better than the low level it was at six months ago, Rainbow Chicken CEO Miles Dally said on Friday. |
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| Shanghai's Peace Hotel reopens |
| SHANGHAI - Shanghai's iconic Peace Hotel reopened on Wednesday after a three-year, $64-million renovation to restore what was once the Far East's most luxurious hotel to its 1930s glory. |
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| Battle to lure diners after Cup binge |
| RESTAURANTS faced a vicious scrap for limited consumer spending in coming months, Famous Brands CEO Kevin Hedderwick said yesterday. |
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| OLÉ - FAMOUS BRANDS CELEBRATES WORLD CUP WIN |
| Johannesburg; Monday, 19 July 2010: Famous Brands’ intensive World Cup project planning, which started in mid-2009, has paid off handsomely. |
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| We don’t know this company |
| Big Five has been lambasted by homeowners who allegedly lost money after being promised that they would coin it during the soccer extravaganza by hosting tourists. |
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| African table is laid |
| Universal Industries’ R224m takeover of catering equipment distributor BCE Foodservice Equipment is a step in a new direction. |
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| A thank you to all our website advertisers!! |
| Shout Factory Media Holdings, a media solutions company with active media platforms in the hospitality industry would like to extend a big thank you to all our website advertisers.... |
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| Fast-food entrepreneur tells Margaret Harris the secret of his success. |
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| Famous Brands Appoints Hedderwick as CEO in Milestone Year |
| Kevin Hedderwick, who has served as Chief Operating Officer of Famous Brands for the past nine years, was appointed as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Group with effect from 11 May 2010. Mr Theofanis Halamandaris, outgoing CEO, will take over as Executive Deputy Chairman.... |
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World’s largest hospital gets Top TV wrap
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| The Chris Hani Baragwaneth hospital in Soweto – the largest hospital in the world – got a new façade last week as Out of Home Communications agency, Posterscope SA wrapped the facility with a multi-coloured billboard to grab consumer attention in the wake of Top TV launch.... |
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| Taste fanciful Venetian flair at Montecasino |
| With a captivating leisure and entertainment complex as a backdrop, Southern Sun’s new Montecasino hotel forms the perfect platform for Punchinello’s, its theatrical Venetian inspired restaurant.... |
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| More to Montecasino |
| Fourteen years ago, the 26 hectares that are now home to the enthralling Southern Sun Montecasino hotel and the Montecasino entertainment complex, were barren land. Hard to imagine. It is precisely this bold sense of imagination that has led to the development of Montecasino as it stands today. And the complex’s new alluring additions, including a gracious four-star hotel and impressive office and conference space, augment the already expansive precinct.... |
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| Newmark hotels announces new acquisition and development projects |
| South Africa, Durban - Indaba, Friday, 7 May 2010; NEWMARK HOTELS PTY (Ltd) has purchased the La Splendida Hotel located on Beach Road, Mouille Point and has also announced the development of a new five-star luxury hotel in the V&A Waterfront to be named The Queen Victoria |
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Now Montecasino features four-star luxury
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| Once upon a time the enthralling Montecasino leisure and entertainment complex was 26-hectares of barren land. Now the development hosts 1 million visitors each month. With the new Southern Sun Montecasino Hotel, an alluring Venetian-inspired luxury four-star hotel, Montecasino’s offering just expanded |
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| How to make your small business goals attainable |
| Small businesses and entrepreneurs have the potential to uplift entire communities through job creation and play a vital role in alleviating poverty. Starting a small business can be a daunting experience and for this reason we have outlined some initiatives that various banks offer to start-ups.... |
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| Soccer Fan Democraphics |
| Sport fans seek the fulfilment of various emotional and intellectual needs through the consumption of sport. The drive towards stimulation, stress release, escape, entertainment and aesthetic pleasure enables the fan to experience positive feelings and thought states. The hospitality industry will play a key role in providing leisure, entertainment, convenience and comfort to the many sport fans visiting South Africa for the World Cup... |
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| Signature hotels announces new inbound sales and marketing structure |
| Following the successful opening of a number of new hotels and the rapid growth of the hotels and resorts around southern Africa, 37 hotels in total, the Signature Life Hotel group has taken back its inbound sales responsibilities and will be contracting direct with Tour Operators and not through EMC as was announced today... |
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| SA Top 20 |
| 20 must see and do of South Africa.. |
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| Chefs challenged to showcase their cutting edge cuisine |
| An established and esteemed institution in the culinary industry in South Africa, this year’s Unilever Foodsolutions Chef of the Year takes place around the country in August, with finals scheduled for September in Durban, and Unilever is challenging chefs across all levels to showcase their cutting edge cuisine. |
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| South Africa’s Premier hospitality job website celebrates a phenomenal first year |
| HotelJobs.co.za was launched in 2009 as an industry specific job website for the Hospitality and Catering Industry. One year on they have become a firm favourite amongst job seekers and recruiters alike; featuring 60 of South Africa’s key hospitality recruiters, and receiving in excess of 2000 visits per day. |
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| Bunnahabhain is America's Sweetheart |
| The multi-award winning Bunnahabhain single malt from Islay has once again been highlighted as one of the best at the 2010 San Francisco World Spirits Competition. The competition which saw 1 024 different spirits from 57 countries judged blind by a panel of 30 leading US whisky connoisseurs, awarded both the Bunnahabhain 18 and 25 year olds gold medals. |
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| Kleine Zalze Looking for Wine Ambassadors |
| South Africa, Stellenbosch, February 2010; Kleine Zalze was swamped with aspiring wine ambassadors from across South Africa after it launched its unique Four Seasons marketing and communication campaign last month. The Four Seasons campaign is aimed at communicating directly with Kleine Zalze’s customers to establish exactly what they love and enjoy about this well-known Stellenbosch wine estate’s wines... |
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| How to Write a Restaurant Review |
| A good restaurant review answers most, if not all, a reader’s questions regarding the restaurant, and has a reduced amount of bias while still explaining all elements of the restaurant – food, décor, ambience, service, value and so on... |
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| Cost-effective Marketing Ideas |
| It is not necessary to run an expensive advertising campaign in order to attract customers. The following are suggestions to raising awareness about the nature of your business and build customer loyalty in a cost-effective manner. |
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| Promoting Your Business to Tourists |
| Tourism is big business in South Africa, and it is getting bigger by the day. And in the run-up to 2010, even more so. Make sure you are making the most out of tourism all year long. |
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| Promoting Your Hotel Online |
| The dynamic growth of the online environment creates a range of new opportunities for strong competition in hospitality. With easy accessibility nowadays, the Internet is quickly becoming the most significant distribution channel for hotel revenue growth. It is predicted that, by 2009, more than half of all hotel bookings will be made online... |
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| Maximise Menu Design and Merchandising Power |
| Restaurant operators have an average of three minutes to impress customers with their menus. Make the most of that precious time by creating a menu that effectively markets your restaurant. |
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| Signage – Are Your Signs Doing their Job? |
| From the signage out front your restaurant introducing your latest menu additions and current specials to table tents and menu boards, window decals and signs on restroom doors, there is no doubting that signs are everywhere as far as today’s restaurants are concerned. |
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