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MasterCard Worldwide, today launched its official East African regional headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. This development brings the number of MasterCard offices across the African continent to five, with other offices operational in Cairo, Casablanca, Lagos, Johannesburg and now Nairobi. Prime Minister Raila Odinga of Kenya welcomed MasterCard’s announcement. “We are pleased to welcome MasterCard to [...]
Bharti Airtel, a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 19 countries across Asia and Africa, today launched the Airtel brand and unveiled the new brand identity across its 16 African operations. With the unveiling of the new brand identity Airtel, becomes the master brand for all the group’s 19 operations in Asia and Africa [...]
GM Reorganizes Africa Operations to Capitalize on Growing Opportunities
General Motors announced today the restructuring of its business in Africa to capitalize on growing opportunities across the continent. Effective January 1, 2011, GM’s operations in Africa will be split into two sub-regions. GM North Africa will include Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Western Sahara and Mauritania. These countries will be integrated with GM Egypt under [...]
Renaissance Capital launches South Africa operations, hires Clifford Sacks
Renaissance Capital, the emerging markets investment bank, announces today that Clifford Sacks will join as CEO South Africa and Head of Pan-African Equities and will lead the Firm’s expansion into the continent’s largest economy. Sacks joins from Merrill Lynch, where he was Co-CEO South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. The South Africa operation will act as [...]
Google Africa Awards PR Contract to Africapractice
Africapractice will handle Google’s PR in Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal and South Africa. The assignment comes as Google attempts to deepen its product penetration into Africa, promote online access, and educate audiences about the internet. The Google Africa account will be managed locally by teams in the six countries, with strategic direction from South [...]
IBM Expands Corporate Service Corps in Africa
IBM’s corporate citizenship initiative, the Corporate Service Corps, is entering into new countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America to provide small businesses, educational institutions and non profits with sophisticated pro bono business consulting and skills development to improve local conditions and foster job creation. IBM today announced an expansion of its program, a corporate [...]
