by Jana Loots | 31 Aug, 2018 | Business and Marketing, Development and Transformation, Wineland
The AGRIBEE sector codes have been revised, tightening the reins on wine-related businesses. Are you up to date with the latest AgriBEE Sector Code requirements for black-economic empowerment in the agricultural sector? You should be, as non-compliance could work...
by Johannes Richter | Business and Marketing, News, Wineland
With the fourth industrial revolution upon us, driven by large-scale automation, emergent technologies, big data and artificial intelligence, and superpowers retreating to their corners, the global marketplace resembles a boxing ring where more than only punches are...
by Johannes Richter | 1 Aug, 2018 | Business and Marketing
With consumer tastes as unpredictable as the seas around the Cape of Storms, the wine industry must know how to read the weather and ride out the changing tide. Johannes Richter looks at emerging global wine trends. The power of perception Powerful brands typically...
by Anton Pretorius | Business and Marketing
New World vs Old World: Where does South African wine fit in? Some wine experts will tell you it’s all but impossible to classify wines geographically because in many ways the Old World versus New World wine debate is often technically driven, resulting in mixed...
by Johannes Richter | Business and Marketing
Thanks to thorough market research Wellington Wines knows how to make a lasting impression as evidenced by the launch of its Imprint range. This is the first instalment of a three-part series focusing on Wellington Wines. National Women’s Day commemorates the...
by Maryke Visagie | Business and Marketing
Celebrate the last days of winter discovering lesser-known gems in South Africa’s oldest wine region. With a winemaking history stretching back to the 1700s, Stellenbosch boasts some of the Cape’s most renowned wine estates. But the region also has many new...
by Tshepang Molisana | Business and Marketing
You don’t have to be a winemaker to work in the wine industry. We’re often so enamoured by wine as a product it’s easy to forget what goes into (and onto) every bottle. This series celebrates the diversity of the people and their careers that make the industry every...
by Epic on behalf of Chris Potgieter. | 31 Jul, 2018 | Business and Marketing
Amid an increasingly unstable geopolitical landscape, the looming possibility of a global trade war carries the risk of severe negative macroeconomic consequences. But it’s not all gloom and doom. A global trade war means both America and China’s economies could begin...
by Jana Loots | Business and Marketing
Get up to speed with your wine geography as we take a look at some of the wine regions that are making inroads on the global front. Did you know that close to 760 000 ha wine grape vineyards were cultivated and 250 million hectolitres of wine was made globally in...
by Johannes Richter | 3 Jul, 2018 | Business and Marketing, Wineland
The number of wine producers in South Africa has dropped by 25% from 2007 to last year. The remaining 75% may have to consider new ways to survive and thrive in the changing world of wine. In March the world’s biggest coffee shop chain, Starbucks, introduced rooibos...
by Jana Loots | Business and Marketing
A dedicated platform now makes it easier for you to find your ideal BEE (or commercial) match. Black economic empowerment (BEE) is not only the right thing to do. If you find the right partner, it can benefit all the parties involved. The wine industry’s Business...
by Maryna Calow | Business and Marketing
As an undercurrent of excitement builds amongst foremost wine trade and media from across the globe, one can’t be surprised to learn that 2018 is a CapeWine year and this year promises to set the tone for the world of wine to take note of how far the South African...
