15 Nov Food entrepreneurs feature in EY awards
Southern Africa’s top three entrepreneurs were named at the 22nd Annual EY World Entrepreneur Awards gala dinner in Johannesburg on Wednesday 13 November 2019 - with two involved in food.
10 Oct Changes and challenges in SA’s F&B sector
A welcome new B2B F&B event that's bound to grow in stature is the FoodNext.Africa symposium, a two-day meeting focusing on food disruption from farm-to-fork. The 2018 event was held recently at Cape Town's CTICC - and here are some interesting views from some of the speakers on the state of play in SA's F&B sector.
08 Nov SA’s sandwich baroness
It took a big jolt in life to thrust Sally J'Arlette-Joy into the world of entrepreneurship in 1996. "I was newly divorced and had R5000 to my name," says J'Arlette-Joy, founder of Sandwich Baron, SA's largest sandwich franchise business....
06 Sep Chain restaurants are really technology companies
American technology entrepreneur, Jonathan Kaplan, made a fortune as the founder of camera company, Flip, that was acquired (and shut down) by Cisco. He's just started The Melt, a food concept that he intends to make into a billion-dollar fast-food chain, and attracted the backing...