APPROXIMATELY 227,000 smallholder farmers produce almost 95 per cent of Zambia’s cotton, utilising 254,000 hectares of land. The cotton industry has developed to be one of the country’s largest quasi-formal distribution networks with some smallholder...

TODAY we look at one of the vexing business concepts called return on investment (ROI) or return on capital (ROC). Or in short, what a business can pay the business owners for having taken the...

LOAD-SHEDDING can be described as the deliberate shutdown of electric power in part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of...

FOLLOWING the current lengthy load-shedding by Zesco, customers in Lusaka have been queuing up for paraffin lumps at Shoprite Cairo Road outlet. The product, which is otherwise a non-essential one, has suddenly become one of...

TALKING shop has noticed a new mode of vending at the on-going Zambia International Trade Fair in Ndola. Mobile vending is where vendors have resorted to selling various merchandise on either ordinary wheelburrows or mechanised...

GOVERNMENT recently issued Statutory Instrument number 33 of 2015 (SI 33) that makes it compulsory to display insurance certificates on all motor vehicles/trailers. Minister of Transport, Works, Supply and Communication Yamfwa Mukanga signed the SI...

FOLLOWING the article on the offloading of Government’s shares in ZCCM-Investment Holding (IH) a fortnight ago, I have literally been swamped with queries. As usual, some readers think I work for ZCCM- IH while others...

ONE of the most commonly misunderstood concepts of running a business especially among the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) is knowing whether the business is making a profit or not. In a business undertaking, it...

THE Zambia Bureau of Standards (ZABS) is slowly but surely rising to its challenge in terms of helping to curb the sale of sub-standard goods in the country. Nowadays, a fortnight rarely passes without a...

FIRST Quantum Minerals (FQM) has remained a major contributor to the Zambian public coffers having contributed more than US$3 billion in the last decade. It is little wonder that the company has won various awards...