By KENNEDY MUPESENI – TOTAL Zambia has launched a K390, 000 entrepreneurship competition to reward the youths with the most innovative business plan. Under the competition coined “Start-upper of the Year by Total Challenge”, Total...

By CHATULA KANGALI – A SAUDI International firm plans to stake a  multi-million dollar investment in Zambia’s health care and energy sectors on a Build, Own, Operate and Transfer (BOOT) model. The investment seeks to...

By HELEN ZULU – NWK Agri-services has urged farmers in the country to embrace cotton farming  to help alleviate rural poverty. Chief agriculture services officer Kelvin Hambwezya said cotton farming has the potential to alleviate...

ECONOMIC commentators from across an array of back drops have argued, and rightly so, that Zambia should wake up from the slumber of dependency of copper exports  as the mainstay of the national economy and...

By CHATULA KANGALI – ATLAS Mara Limited, a sub-Saharan African financial services group, has confirmed 100 per cent acquisition of Finance Bank Zambia (FBZ) Plc at US$60 million and $2.6 million shares. Upon completion of...

By CHUSA SICHONE – THE coming of new pay television company StarTimes on the market will give its competitors a run for their money by pAroviding affordable and alluring digital entertainment. StarSat Television sales, marketing...

BRIEFCASE is happy to learn from various stakeholders, including Japanese Ambassador Kiyoshi Koinuma that Zambia is still an attractive business destination despite the current economic challenges the country was going through. While the country is...

By CHATULA KANGALI – Government is saddened by the development at Mansa Batteries where the investor plans to turn the cells manufacturing plant into a shopping mall. Commerce, Trade and Industry Minister Margaret Mwanakatwe said...

By JAMES MUYANWA – INVESTOR confidence in the Zambian economy has continued soaring as evidenced by the Zambia Development Agency (ZDA) recording rise in investment prospects and inquiries. This is despite some challenges, like load-shedding...

By HELEN ZULU – NWK Agri-services has launched six spray races in Mumbwa District aimed at eradicating animal diseases and increase productivity. The six spray races are as a result of a partnership between NWK...