Oviposition propensity ofBactrocera dorsalis(Hendel) (Diptera: Tephritidae) on citrus varieties in South Africa: Implications for export markets

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charmaine Dawn Theron
Author(s):  
Julie Hennessy

Stella Artois, an AB InBev brand, is the world's best-selling Belgian beer. In early 2017, Ricardo Tadeu, AB InBev Zone President for Africa, is planning the brand's entry into its next export market: South Africa. The case explores Stella's introduction strategies into three of its export markets—the UK (1976), the US (2000), and Mexico (2016)—examining the drivers of the brand's success as well as its failures. Students will analyze the brand's previous launches to determine what made it successful in some markets and not in others. They will apply these learnings to develop a strategy for the brand's introduction to the South African market. Beyond the central discussion of growth through international expansion, the case addresses issues of brand positioning for premium products, changing consumer perceptions, the use of cause marketing, category development and maturity, and competitive strategy.


2021 ◽  
pp. 194-216
Author(s):  
Wandile Sihlobo ◽  
Johann Kirsten

South Africa is a semi-arid country with a weak resource base for agriculture which is also threatened by climate change and sporadic droughts. Through the adoption of modern technology, increased productivity growth and new export markets, South African commercial agriculture has shown dramatic growth over the last three decades. At the same time, the sector continues to be characterized by an extreme dualism between predominantly white commercial farmers and mainly black smallholder farmers, and many failed efforts to grow the sector in an inclusive and transformed manner. As a result, the country still has ‘two agricultures’. This chapter unpacks the structural characteristics of South African commercial agriculture based on a freighter-relation of the official statistics. This incomplete picture of the structural and geospatial dimensions of agriculture constrain any sensible policy design and support programmes to bring about a sustainable and transformed sector.


Author(s):  
Itthipong Mahanaseth ◽  
Loren W. Tauer

AbstractWe measure the degree of market power Thailand has in its major rice export markets. Elasticities of residual demands for Thai rice for its important export destinations of China, Indonesia, USA, and South Africa were estimated and used as indicators of the degree of competition or market power in each respective market. Thai rice exports were classified into four categories consisting of aggregated white rice, Hommali rice, glutinous rice, and parboiled rice. For aggregated rice exports, the results reveal that Thailand does not have market power to influence export prices in its four major export markets. Instead, Thailand faces fierce competition from the rice-exporting countries of Vietnam and India, whose rice appears to be very close substitutes to Thai rice. Likewise, in the case of the disaggregated Hommali rice export market, Thailand does not possess market power. However, results indicate that Thailand has some market power in the glutinous rice export markets to China and Indonesia. Lastly, Thailand appears to have significant market power over parboiled rice export to South Africa. These results are useful in ongoing discussions of Thailand rice policies.


2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-34
Author(s):  
Carli Jacobs ◽  
Wilma Viviers ◽  
Ermie Steenkamp

Despite the surging demand for imports in South America in recent years, South Africa’s exports to the region have shown relatively low growth. A contributing factor is the prevalence of trade barriers between South Africa and various South American countries. The aim of this study is, firstly, to measure the trade barriers to South Africa’s exports to South America and, secondly, to identify high-potential export opportunities in the form of product-country combinations that can best surmount such barriers. The investigation, which uses a reconstructed Decision Support Model (DSM), reveals that Brazil, Argentina and Chile offer the greatest potential as export markets (in US$ terms) for South Africa, while the most promising product categories are transport-related goods, minerals, vegetables and chemicals. The results of this study should be a useful guide to South Africans planning export initiatives in South America.


1972 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 27-38
Author(s):  
J. Hers

In South Africa the modern outlook towards time may be said to have started in 1948. Both the two major observatories, The Royal Observatory in Cape Town and the Union Observatory (now known as the Republic Observatory) in Johannesburg had, of course, been involved in the astronomical determination of time almost from their inception, and the Johannesburg Observatory has been responsible for the official time of South Africa since 1908. However the pendulum clocks then in use could not be relied on to provide an accuracy better than about 1/10 second, which was of the same order as that of the astronomical observations. It is doubtful if much use was made of even this limited accuracy outside the two observatories, and although there may – occasionally have been a demand for more accurate time, it was certainly not voiced.


Author(s):  
Alex Johnson ◽  
Amanda Hitchins

Abstract This article summarizes a series of trips sponsored by People to People, a professional exchange program. The trips described in this report were led by the first author of this article and include trips to South Africa, Russia, Vietnam and Cambodia, and Israel. Each of these trips included delegations of 25 to 50 speech-language pathologists and audiologists who participated in professional visits to learn of the health, education, and social conditions in each country. Additionally, opportunities to meet with communication disorders professionals, students, and persons with speech, language, or hearing disabilities were included. People to People, partnered with the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), provides a meaningful and interesting way to learn and travel with colleagues.


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