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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2023-11-21
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2023-11-20
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2023-11-16
Australia sealed their place in Sunday`s final of the 50-over World Cup against India following a nervy three-wicket victory against South Africa in the second semi-final on Thursday.
2023-11-16South Africa sense an opportunity to finally get rid of the choker`s tag but the onerous task entails getting the better of the most successful team in the history of 50-overs World Cup, Australia, in Thursday`s semi-final in Kolkata.
2023-11-14
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2023-11-13AHMEDABAD (Reuters) -South Africa saw off a spirited fightback from Afghanistan to win by five wickets with 15 balls to spare in their final World Cup group game and consolidate second place in the standings.
2023-11-10
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2023-11-10
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2023-11-05
India captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and opted to bat first against South Africa in their eagerly anticipated World Cup match at Eden Gardens on Sunday.
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2023-11-02
(Reuters) -Quinton de Kock smashed his fourth century of the World Cup and Rassie van der Dussen also hit a ton as semi-finals-bound South Africa sealed a comprehensive 190-run victory over New Zealand on Wednesday for their sixth win in seven matches.
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2023-11-01
Quinton de Kock smashed his fourth century of the World Cup and Rassie van der Dussen also hit a ton as South Africa made 357-4 against New Zealand at Pune`s MCA Stadium on Wednesday.
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2023-11-01JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African state power utility Eskom forecast a significant narrowing of its net losses in the financial year to March 2025 on Tuesday, but after only a marginal drop for this year.
2023-10-31
South African state power utility Eskom forecast a significant narrowing of its net losses in the financial year to March 2025 on Tuesday, but after only a marginal drop for this year.
2023-10-31Following their World Cup triumph, South Africa face an uncertain future as they wait for a new coach to be appointed while many of the stalwarts within the squad are coming to the end of their test careers.
2023-10-29South Africans woke up in a jubilant mood and with some sore heads on Sunday, basking in the glory of back-to-back Rugby World Cup wins following their nail-biting 12-11 victory over old foes New Zealand in the 2023 final in Paris.
2023-10-29New Zealand and South Africa each take aim at a record fourth World Cup crown when they meet in this year’s final in Paris on Saturday.
2023-10-27New Zealand tweaked their team for Saturday’s Rugby World Cup final against South Africa with a single change but resisted any temptation to power up their bench to offset the forward-heavy list of replacements the Springboks named earlier on Thursday.
2023-10-26South Africa’s forwards know any successful outcome of Saturday’s Rugby World Cup final depends on how they dominate New Zealand upfront after the Springboks made a surprise selection gamble for the clash at the Stade de France.
2023-10-26Handre Pollard, who kicked South Africa to an emphatic victory in the last Rugby World Cup final, will start again in this year’s decider with another controversial 7-1 split among the forwards and backs on the Springbok bench for Saturday`s decider against New Zealand.
2023-10-26South Africa hooker Bongi Mbonambi has been cleared to play in Saturday’s Rugby World Cup final, World Rugby said on Thursday, after insufficient evidence was found that he used discriminatory language towards England flanker Tom Curry.
2023-10-26
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2023-10-25
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2023-10-25MUMBAI (Reuters) -Quinton de Kock led South Africa`s batting carnage with an incendiary 174 as they crushed Bangladesh by 149 runs to stay on course for a place in the semi-finals of the 50-overs World Cup on Tuesday.
2023-10-24South Africa`s Anglo American Platinum on Tuesday said its refined platinum group metal (PGM) output declined 9% during the third quarter, due to disrupted water supplies to its processing facilities and lower concentrate production.
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2023-10-21Heinrich Klaasen scored a 61-ball century as South Africa posted a massive 399 for seven at the end of their 50 overs in the Cricket World Cup pool stage clash with England at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Saturday.
2023-10-21England captain Jos Buttler won the toss and elected to bowl first in their Cricket World Cup pool clash against South Africa at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Saturday, as Ben Stokes returns from a hip injury to bolster the side.
2023-10-21
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2023-10-18Inflation in South Africa rose sharply in September but stayed within the central bank`s target range, fuelling analysts` expectations that interest rates would be left unchanged next month.
2023-10-18France expect a brutal clash with South Africa in their World Cup quarter-final, but strategy will probably play a more important part at the Stade de France, where physicality and sheer power will not be enough to go through on Sunday.
2023-10-14Australia got their tactics and team selection all wrong in Thursday`s World Cup defeat by South Africa and the five-times champions must quickly get their act together if they are to avoid a group-stage exit, said former skipper Michael Clarke.
2023-10-13LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) -South Africa crushed Australia by 134 runs to cruise to their second victory at the World Cup, as Quinton de Kock struck back-to-back tons and Aiden Markram made a half-century before the bowlers ripped through the five-times champions on Thursday.
2023-10-12South Africa have based their domination on a powerful and skilful pack and France expect to face just that when they meet the holders in the World Cup quarter-finals on Sunday.
2023-10-11South Africa’s record-breaking win over Sri Lanka in their Cricket World Cup opener on Saturday was a show of strength from their sizzling top six, but if they are to end their tournament curse in the 50-over format, their bowling unit needs to fire.
2023-10-08It took Aiden Markram only a couple of deliveries to realise it was going to be his day on a belter of a track, the South African power-hitter said after smashing the fastest ever century in men`s World Cup against Sri Lanka on Saturday.
2023-10-07Grocery retailer SPAR Group is exploring potentially importing eggs from several southern African countries as South Africa`s worst outbreak of avian flu hits egg supplies and threatens the supply of chicken meat.
2023-10-05
The South African rand traded slightly higher on Wednesday following several days of weakness as the softening of the U.S. dollar supported risk sentiment.
2023-10-04South African grocery retailers Woolworths and Pick n Pay are limiting the amount of eggs shoppers can buy as the country`s worst outbreak of avian flu hits table egg supplies and threatens the supply of chicken meat.
2023-10-04Sub-Saharan Africa`s economic growth is expected to slow this year, dragged down by slumps in heavyweights South Africa, Nigeria and Angola, the World Bank said on Wednesday.
2023-10-04MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) -Defending champions South Africa scored seven tries and moved a step closer to the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals with a bruising 49-18 victory over impressive Tonga in their Pool B clash on Sunday.
2023-10-02South Africa`s RCL Foods said on Thursday its poultry unit Rainbow has culled 410,000 chickens due to the country`s worst outbreak of avian flu, heightening fears of chicken meat and egg shortages.
2023-09-28Four of South African state utility Eskom`s 15 coal-fired power plants are breaching government emissions regulations as it pushes ageing facilities to their limits, a Reuters analysis of company data found and Eskom officials confirmed.
2023-09-27
German logistics giant DHL is teaming up with energy firm HH2E and South African petrochemicals firm Sasol on the expansion of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production in Germany, HH2E said on Monday.
2023-09-25
South African poultry producer Quantum Foods on Friday said nearly 2 million chickens worth 106 million rand ($5.63 million) have been killed by a bird flu outbreak, increasing fears of a table egg and meat shortage.
2023-09-22South Africa will host a U.S.-Africa trade summit in November despite an earlier call by U.S. lawmakers for the event to be moved over what they said was the country`s deepening military relationship with Russia.
2023-09-20LONDON (Reuters) -Novo Nordisk has contracted Aspen Pharmacare to produce human insulin on its behalf in South Africa for export to African countries through a low-cost government tender system, the Danish drugmaker said on Tuesday.
2023-09-19Novo Nordisk has contracted Aspen Pharmacare to produce human insulin on its behalf in South Africa for export to African countries through a low-cost government tender system, the Danish drugmaker said on Tuesday.
2023-09-19South Africa’s win over Australia on Tuesday came as a major relief after a run of successive defeats threatened their confidence before next month’s World Cup, said man of the match Aiden Markram.
2023-09-12Aiden Markram`s century and a successful spin attack saw South Africa beat Australia by 111 runs in the third One Day International at the JB Marks Oval on Tuesday to win their first match of the five-game series.
2023-09-12Scotland always faced a monumental challenge to get out of a daunting World Cup pool but, having lost to defending champions South Africa on Sunday, nothing has really changed - they will just probably need to beat the world`s number one team to avoid an early exit.
2023-09-10MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) -South Africa got the defence of their title off to an impressive start on Sunday when a second-half surge allowed them to overpower a toothless Scotland 18-3 to move into a strong position in the World Cup`s “group of death”.
2023-09-10Swashbuckling centuries from David Warner and Marnus Labuschagne led Australia to a crushing 123-run win over South Africa in the second one-day international in Bloemfontein on Saturday.
2023-09-09(Reuters) -Mangosuthu Buthelezi, a veteran South African politician, Zulu prince and controversial figure during the apartheid liberation struggle, has died, the presidency said on Saturday. He was 95.
2023-09-09Marnus Labuschagne came on as a concussion substitute to steer Australia to a three-wicket win over South Africa in a one-day international on Thursday, leaving Australia’s selectors with thinking to do ahead of next month’s World Cup in India.
2023-09-07Raymond Ackerman, who founded Pick n Pay from just four stores 56 years ago and turned them into one of South Africa`s leading grocery retailers, has died aged 92, the company said on Thursday.
2023-09-07New Zealand took a record beating by South Africa last month, but France are wary of the threat the All Blacks will pose when the two heavyweights face each other in the World Cup curtain raiser on Friday.
2023-09-05
(Reuters) -South Africa`s African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) is seeking lithium and copper acquisitions but is concerned about "crazy money" being paid for metal assets considered vital to the clean energy transition.
2023-09-04
South Africa`s African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) is seeking lithium and copper acquisitions but is concerned about "crazy money" being paid for metal assets considered vital to the clean energy transition.
2023-09-04Mitchell Marsh is set to compete with Travis Head and David Warner for a slot at the top of Australia`s order at the World Cup after dominating with the bat in the Twenty20 series win over South Africa.
2023-09-04
South Africa`s National Treasury said it will implement a number of cost-cutting measures to rein in government spending, including a hiring freeze, after a shortfall in revenue collection.
2023-09-03A career-best unbeaten 92 from new captain Mitch Marsh propelled Australia to a comprehensive 111-run victory over hosts South Africa in the first Twenty20 International in Durban on Wednesday.
2023-08-30
South Africa`s Sibanye Stillwater plans to bring in a Chinese investor to form a partnership if it wins its bid to buy Zambia`s Mopani Copper Mines, its Chief Executive Neal Froneman told Reuters.
2023-08-29South Africa and the U.S. separately on Monday noted observers` concerns with last week`s presidential and parliamentary elections in Zimbabwe and called for peace, after the opposition called the vote a fraud.
2023-08-28South Africa`s finance minister said on Thursday that the BRICS grouping would not be looking to replace international payment systems including SWIFT, but rather consider creating one that would strengthen trade in local currencies.
2023-08-24A highly mutated COVID variant called BA.2.86 has now been detected in Switzerland and South Africa in addition to Israel, Denmark, the U.S. and the U.K., according to a leading World Health Organization official.
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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