By HELEN ZULU – A NDOLA coal processing company plans to invest a further US$600,000 in expanding the production line for coke briquettes. Coke briquettes are used in the copper smelting process and can be...

GOVERNMENT projects to spend a total of K53.1 billion this year, a marginal increase of 14 per cent from the 2015 Budget. It also intends to increase domestic revenue to at least 20.4 per cent...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – THE Development Bank of Zambia (DBZ) has secured about K600 million for onward lending to the private sector in the country this year. The bank secured two main lines of credit...

By CHATULA KANGALI – THE Zambia National Association of Sawmillers (ZNAS) has called on members to start exporting soft wood. Association president, William Bwalya, however, urged members to ensure that they comply with the laws...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – ANOTHER batch of 49 solar- powered milling units have arrived in the country through  Beira Port in Mozambique, bringing the total number of units to 100. Last week, 48 units arrived...

By HELEN ZULU – PREMIERCON Starch Company Limited has commenced the construction of a cassava processing plant in North-Western Province, which is expected to produce 7,200 tonnes of starch per annum. The processing plant to...

As we begin the year 2016, I wish to advise readers that  implementation of the display of insurance discs law which was supposed to be effected on January 1, 2016, has been pushed to February...

RENOWNED Nigerian prophet, Temitope Balogun Joshua, commonly known as TB Joshua, gave his annual prophecy on Southern Africa last Sunday. My interest however, is not in all the issues the pastor of the Synagogue Church...

CORPORATE and product brands are some of the most valuable and critical assets that drive businesses’ competitive advantage. The American Marketing Association (AMA) defined the term ‘brand’ in 1960 as: “A name, term, sign, symbol,...

IN one of the initial articles of this column, I looked at a topic titled ‘THREE FORMS OF BUSINESSES’ under which most of the small and medium enterprises form their businesses. In today’s article we...