By JAMES KUNDA – ZAMBIA’s sugar industry is positioned for growth following plans by an American firm to set up a sugarcane plantation and refining factory in Shangombo District in Western Province with an intial...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – SHOPRITE Holdings Group will construct a second shopping mall that will house Shoprite supermarket, Hungry Lion Take Away and O.K Furniture store in Solwezi as part of its expansion programme. The...

By JAMES KUNDA – JAPANESE companies have shown interest of investing in Zambia’s mineral resources, Japanese parliamentary Vice Minister for Economy, Trade and Industry Yashihiko Isozaki has said. He said Japan was willing to explore...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – THE Policy Monitoring and Research Centre (PMRC) has urged Government to restructure operations of State Owned Enterprise (SOEs) to make them economically viable. In a recent policy analysis statement, PMRC called...

By JAMES KUNDA – GLOBAL mining conglomerate, Vedanta Resources, has disclosed that copper production at its Zambian subsidiary, Konkola Copper Mines, dropped by 19 per cent in the last quarter of 2013. Vedanta reported at...

By BUSINESS REPORTER – THE prices of oil on the international market slipped below $108 a barrel on Friday and were set for their first monthly drop in four with worries over faltering Chinese consumption...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – THE Lusaka South Multi-Facility Economic Zone (MFEZ) will this year intensify infrastructure development at the facility to attract further investors. And NRB Pharma Zambia Limited has started the construction of the...

By JAMES KUNDA – THE Bank of Zambia (BoZ) says it has maintained a relatively tight monetary policy stance to moderate effects on inflationary pressures going forward. BoZ head of public relations Kanguya Mayondi said...

By JAMES KUNDA – THE Government will maintain the ban on the export of scrap metal to promote value addition in the local steel industry, Commerce, Trade and Industry Minister Emmanuel Chenda has said. Mr...

By JAMES KUNDA – ENGEN, the downstream petroleum products company with offices in fifteen African and Indian Ocean Island countries has introduced its Dieselube 500 Super 15W-40 lubricating oil onto the Zambia market. Engen Zambia...