Tag: company
This 12-Year-Old Started A Bow Tie Company That Already Has $150,000...
AFRICANGLOBE - A 12-year-old entrepreneur who started a bow tie company three years ago has already hit $150,000 in sales. Moziah Bridges appeared on CNBC recently to promote his holiday collaboration with Cole Haan.
15-Year-Old Creates, Runs $3.5M Global Tech Company
AFRICANGLOBE - A 15-year-old high school student who started a tech company when he was 12, took it global and now employs more than 100 people three years later and is giving God the all the glory for his success.
Oppenheimer Family Investing In South African Tech Start-Ups
AFRICANGLOBE - E. Oppenheimer & Son has become an investor in South African venture capital company 4Di Capital, in a move that sees the...
South Africa: Massive Dismissals of Miners Continue
The end in the strife in the mining industry in South Africa is not over, as employers are now putting their foot down after...
Meet The Man Who’s Shaping Africa’s Future
Just like the great American civil right activist Martin Luther King Jnr. had a dream of an equal social existence, so did Ghanaian-born entrepreneur,...
CEO to Workers: I May Fire You if Obama Wins
David Siegel, the owner of Westgate Resorts, sent a surprising email to his employees Monday.
It said that if President Barack Obama wins re-election and...
Ethiopia: Investors Partner to Construct Largest Steel Factory
Ethiopian-Saudi investor, Sheikh Mohammed Al-Amoudi is this week expected to partner an Italian firm in the construction of a $764 million steel factory.
Officials said...
Race, Fashion & Beauty
Italian luxury fashion house Dolce & Gabanna says it meant no disrespect by sending what many have characterized as racist imagery down its runway.
The...
Ethiopian Airlines to Build One of the World’s Largest Cargo Terminals
A German company, ICM airport techniques, has been awarded the turnkey project for the construction of an Ethiopian Airlines cargo warehouse that has a...
French Firm Safran Fined for Bribing Nigerian Officials
The French electronics firm Safran has been fined 500,000 euros for bribing Nigerian officials in order to win a multi-million euro contract to make...
Oil Firm Triples Oil Prospects for Kenya and Ethiopia
Canadian oil exploration company, Africa Oil Corporation has raised fresh hopes that Kenya’s oil find could be commercially viable after the firm tripled its...
Marikana Massacre Marks The End Of South Africa’s Post-Apartheid Settlement?
AFRICANGLOBE - The killing of 34 striking miners by police at the Marikana mine in South Africa last Friday is a tragedy that touches more than just the families and communities of the dead. It also highlights the failure of post-apartheid South Africa to improve the lives of a majority of its citizens.
South African Miners Turn to Julius Malema
Having been failed by the unions, the platinum company they worked for, and Jacob Zuma's government, the furious residents of the small squatter camp...
Nigeria’s ‘Infrastructure Master Plan to Attract New Investors’
Nigeria's Minister of Trade and Investment has said that government will soon come up with an infrastructure master plan that will drive new investments...
Ethiopia May Operate Gas Fields Amid Dispute With China’s PetroTrans
Ethiopia’s government may develop gas fields in its eastern Somali region itself or with a partner while a contractual dispute with a Chinese oil...
Meet Nigerian Billionaire, Abdulsamad Rabiu
AFRICANGLOBE - Abdulsamad Rabiu was born into affluence. His father, Isyaku Rabiu, was one of the richest and most influential businessmen in Nigeria in the 1970s and 80s.
