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Austin Building Company: W Austin Hotel & Residences

The general contractor for the new W Austin Hotel & Residences in downtown Austin, a 37-story tower combining hotel, condominiums, and retail and office space.

Bridor

Bridor is thriving by adapting European breads, croissants and pastries to North American tastes, as Pam Derringer learns from company marketing vice president Pierre Martella.<

Starlite Aviation Group

A combination of its first-class track record and its proactive approach to future growth has seen Starlite Aviation Group position itself perfectly for the opportunities that E

Scribante Construction

Eskom: Kusile

Biggest doesn’t have to be best but the scale of Eskom’s Kusile coal-fired power station is of strategic importance to the hard-pressed utility: it has to catch up with ever inc

Uganda Telecom Ltd

Regional market leader Uganda Telecom Ltd is required to invest heavily in management, infrastructure and technology improvements to increase its share of the market.

Export to grow

Businesses that export grow by almost a third in just two years, according to new research from Barclays.

Strategy: Negotiation and deal-making

CEO of Rich Futures Clive Rich asks how well we are prepared to negotiate on the international stage; and whether our deal-making with other countries suffers because of an inhe

IMPERIAL Air Cargo

In less than five years, IMPERIAL Air Cargo has captured around 50 per cent of the market share in overnight express airfreight services in South Africa. Ben Sansom reports.

Domestic auto brands outperform imports

For the first time since 1997, domestic auto brands, collectively, have surpassed import brands as a whole in vehicle appeal, according to the J.D.

Presco Plc

West Africa’s largest economy is not entirely defined by its offshore resources: Presco Plc has been helping to reverse the decline in agricultural staples, and in particular th

Protech Khuthele Holdings Ltd

Life is not easy in the construction industry, even in South Africa; but Protech Khuthele’s history is an object lesson in how to entrench and expand a niche capability.

Supply chain: Picking strategies

Thomas R. Cutler outlines the advantages of simultaneous picking strategies in light-directed order fulfillment: pick-to-light, pick-to-display, and now build-to-light.