S&V Protect Magazine Vol9 No3 Nov 2015The only SA magazine aimed exclusively at the PPE end user.
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Footwear Industry Articles
- Drip Footwear’s financial crisis - a cautionary tale
Rapid Expansion BackfiresDrip Footwear, a once-promising South African sneaker brand, is facing a severe financial crisis that has sparked intense scrutiny and debate. The company’s rapid expansion into shopping malls has backfired spectacularly, leaving it with a R20 million debt, a foreign exchange blunder, and the looming threat ...moreMr Price Sport: ‘Brands small – but important – part of our business’Durban, KZN, SA – Mr Price Sport will continue to look for opportunities to carry branded products, MD Anthony Findlay says.“Brands make up 10% to 15% of our merchandise, which may be small, but it’s an important part of the selection.”Through a collab with the SA distributor of U.S. brand Everlast, which is associ ...moreRip Curl, Kathmandu owner KMD Brands preliminary result: Second half improvementChristchurch, New Zealand (20 August 2024) – KMD Brands Limited provides the following unaudited preliminary results for the year ending 31 July 2024 (“FY24”): Rip Curl and Kathmandu sales have shown continued improvement on first half sales trends during both the third and fourth quarters of FY24, as outlined below. ...more
Leather Industry Articles
- Surge in exports to Brazil and Argentina in 2023 : Is South America a new Eldorado for SA’s automotive leather industry?
Note: S&V African Leather asked both Bader SA and Pangea SA, SA’s – and Africa’s – surviving specialist automotive leather tanneries, to comment for this article. At the deadline, neither had responded. ...moreSam Setter's 'Pills'"Bangladesh unravellingThe leather industry in Bangladesh is slowly, slowly disintegrating. Their tanneries in the Hemayelpur area, which is part of the Savar Industrial Complex, are suffering from a non-functional common effluent treatment plant, hence European importers and brands are avoiding buying from them. The only chance to e ...moreSam Setter's 'Pills': For readers who need some wry medicinal humour" HilariousThe industrial promotion section of the Rwandan Ministry of Trade and Industry has announced that the country intends to develop a tannery park in the Bugesera special economic zone near the border with Burundi. When one talks about a tannery park, one imagines a minimum of a dozen tanneries, and another dozen shoe and lea ...more
PPE Industry Articles
- Being mentally prepared for emergencies: At home, at work, take time to practise your reaction to potential dangers
In the light of the tragic George building collapse being fresh in our minds, would you know what to do if an emergency occurred while you were on the job or at home?Do you know what actions to take if a co-worker was seriously injured, a fire ignited, a vehicle accident or a structure collapsed? Are you prepared to react?Emergencies and ...moreUnderstanding the issues using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in OHS
Artificial intelligence is an innovative and transformative technology that has been making waves across various industries & today is the big buzzword in business. But very few of us understand what AI is and means, including OHS practitioners who are starting to use AI in the OHS field.Firstly, the Occupation Health & Safety fie ...moreSouth Africa's water crisis - a call to action for climate-resilient solutions
Durban, KZN, SA (09 April 2024) – South Africa faces a water crisis of immense proportions, a dire situation fuelled by a confluence of challenges. Unevenly distributed water resources, exacerbated by unpredictable rainfall patterns due to climate change collide with the burden of outdated and deteriorating infrastructure, threateni ...more
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