Sector: Consumer Goods
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AVI Limited (JSE:AVI) is home to many of South Africa’s leading and best-loved brands. Centred on the FMCG market, AVI’s extensive brand portfolio includes more than 50 brands.
The company's brands span a range of categories including: hot beverages, sweet and savoury biscuits and snacks, frozen convenience foods, out-of-home ranges, personal care products, cosmetics, footwear, accessories, and fashion apparel and includes:
Five Roses, Freshpak, Ellis Brown, Frisco, House of Coffees, Bakers, Pyotts, Provita, Willards, I&J, Ciro, Yardley, Lentheric, Coty, Spitz, Carvela, Kurt Geiger, Tosoni, Lacoste, and Gant.
The company has a well-developed Shared Services structure spanning: International, IT, Finance, Logistics, Marketing, Procurement and Field Marketing, that allows it to take advantage of its scale.
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2023-08-24South Africa are gunning for a morale-boosting victory ahead of the World Cup when they face old foe New Zealand in a final warm-up at Twickenham on Friday, as captain Siya Kolisi says they will hold nothing back in what he expects to be a "beautiful game".
2023-08-24JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -A deal to expand the BRICS group of leading developing countries appeared stuck in eleventh hour negotiations at a leaders summit on Wednesday, threatening to undermine the bloc`s ambition to give the "Global South" more clout in world affairs.
2023-08-23JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Leaders of the BRICS bloc of leading developing countries have agreed mechanisms for considering new members, South Africa said on Wednesday, paving the way for dozens of interested nations to join the group which has pledged to champion the "Global South".
2023-08-23JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Leaders of the BRICS bloc of leading developing nations - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - have agreed mechanisms for considering new members, South Africa`s foreign minister said on Wednesday.
2023-08-23China`s President Xi Jinping called for unity among his BRICS counterparts at a summit in South Africa on Wednesday as he pushed the case for expanding the grouping to face a global "period of turbulence and transformation".
2023-08-23The New Development Bank of the BRICS group of nations will not be announcing new members at the BRICS Summit in South Africa this week, its Chief Financial Officer Leslie Maasdorp told Reuters on Wednesday.
2023-08-23Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Tuesday that the BRICS bloc of nations aims to organise the developing Global South and is not meant to rival the United States and the Group of Seven (G7) wealthy economies.
2023-08-22South Africa`s Treasury has paid 16 billion rand ($852 million) to heavily indebted power utility Eskom, the first tranche of a debt relief package that will wipe off more than half its liabilities, acting CEO Calib Cassim said on Tuesday.
2023-08-22Leaders of the BRICS nations - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - are due to open a summit in Johannesburg on Tuesday where they will weigh expanding membership as some members push to forge the bloc into a counterweight to the West.
2023-08-22JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -The BRICS group of major emerging economies - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - will hold its 15th heads of state and government summit in Johannesburg between Aug. 22 and Aug. 24.
2023-08-21The BRICS group of major emerging economies - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - will hold its 15th heads of state and government summit in Johannesburg between Aug. 22 and Aug. 24.
2023-08-21Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet African heads of state on the sidelines of the BRICS summit next week "to advance China-Africa cooperation in the new era", China`s ambassador to South Africa said on Friday.
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