By HELEN ZULU – TIMES Printpak marketing and sales manager Mark Nyasulu has urged business owners to use emails as a marketing tool to promote their businesses. Mr Nyasulu said business owners should start using...

By JAMES KUNDA – GOVERNMENT is yet to find a suitable equity partner to acquire the 49 per cent shares in Indeni Petroleum Refinery in Ndola, Mines, Energy and Water Development permanent secretary Charity Mwansa...

THE Lusaka City Council (LCC) should be commended for taking a firm stance by rejecting trading licences of people who intend to sell food and beverages in unsanitary locations. The sale of food and beverages...

By JAMES KUNDA – THE Energy Regulation Board (ERB) has applied to the Government to consider scrapping off or reducing tax on jet fuel in Zambia. Mines, Energy and Water Development Permanent Secretary, Charity Mwansa...

By HELEN ZULU – SABMiller group of companies is scaling up its globally recognised sustainable development programmes with a set of ambitious targets to achieve by 2020. Zambian Breweries PLC (ZB) corporate affairs director Luke...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – LAWRENCE Sikutwa and Associates (LSA) Limited says it requires about US$4 million to set up an insurance company in Tanzania. Group chairperson Lawrence Sikutwa told journalists in Lusaka that the expansion...

By MARTIN MUSUNKA – THE newly established domestic airline, Mahogany Air, has embarked on an ambitious transformation programme aimed at improving the quality of air travel. Director of administration Cynthia Belemu has assured passengers that...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – THE Government has launched the National Strategy for the Development of Statistics (NSDS) for 2014 to 2018. The NSDS is a strategic plan for developing the National Statistical System (NSS) which...

By JAMES KUNDA – THE Government has no immediate plans to reintroduce crop levy as there are other effective strategies being implemented for councils to generate income, Local Government and Housing Minister Emmanuel Chenda has...

TODAY we look at the importance of the small-scale farmers to the general economy of any country, including Zambia’s. Zambia has been dependent on copper as a main source of revenue, since independence and at...